No. 9
Part 3: the quilting
I wanted to quilt the background in 1/2" lines. I don't remember if I have shown you this cool gadget. It attaches to the walking foot and guides your quilting lines with almost any spacing that you want. And you can attach it to the left or right side of the walking foot. It is very helpful and very versatile.
The only down side is that it is hard to change a bobbin with it attached. After stitching the sample, I was satisfied that it would work!
I did some edge stitching on the stripes, and then completed the stitching in 1/2" intervals. If you remember all the humps, you will quickly realize that it meant a lot of starts and stops. I prefer doing the starts and stops vs. a continuous back and forth because the tension looks better.
The next section that I wanted to do were the arcs. I did this with a free motion foot. And, I was worried about spacing the narrow lines because the arcs have varying widths along the length. It was harrowing!! But, once completed, it looked really good and I sighed a big sigh of relief!
Last, I quilted the half square triangle blocks inside the humps. The little blocks got a diagonal cross hatch. I LOVE how the texture looks in this lighting!
The slightly larger blocks got all 1/4" parallel lines (again with lots of starts and stops).
And, one last photo of the quilting from the back side:
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