This past weekend I spent working on my husband's aunt Lisa's K-State Wildcat quilt. Since Lisa is getting the auntie discount I felt a little more brave to try out my free-motion/custom stuff on her. I've been in love with these bubble inside of bubbles I'd been seeing and decided why not just go for it? While I had not practiced the bubble design on an actual piece of material I had doodled it a lot in my free time (or faculty meetings). In all honesty I do believe my doodling habit has led to my longarming career. Who knew countless hours of drawing meaningless doodles in my planner and calendar would lead to actual paying jobs as a longarmer?
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| An example of my prolific doodling from an agenda from our church's deacons meeting last night. |
So I went to work filling in each purple background with purple colored bubbles.
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| The bubble pattern from the front. |
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| The bubble pattern from the back. |
For the borders and sashings I decided I wanted something to balance out the free flowing motion of the bubble pattern and chose to do some ruler work. I made 45 degree angles 1/2 inch apart all the the way around the quilt and all the sashings. I then added a design and traced the middle diamond and called it good!
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| The sashings & borders which I used a ruler to make. |
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| The finished quilt spread out on my longarm frame. |
This looks great! I was never a doodler so that may explain why free motion quilting scares me so much!
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