Fifty Shades of Grey

50grey copy                                                                             I wanted to make something small to practice my free motion quilting since I found Leah Day’s Free Motion Quilting project site.  (http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/p/365-designs.html).  And I did learn a lot!  I used all grey fabrics, but some of them had designs so strong that free motion designs got lost in them.  It’s hard to free motion quilt very close to the edges of the quilt.  And practice definitely helps.  Buying Leah’s book helped too, so I had a picture to keep by the sewing machine.  I was using my iPad, but it kept timing out & going to sleep.

Here are some details.    All except one are from Leah Day.

 

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I love this blue variegated rayon thread.
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I used the technique described on this site: http://www.quiltersnewsletter.com/articles/feature10

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