Free Motion 9/365

A little bit late today - I completed the block as the boys were getting into bed, but then started working on a huge, bright quilt and then end is in sight!

So today's block is called Cursive F's, which are lovely f's in rows....

It was an interesting design to quilt (sorry for the awful photo!), I experimented with straight f's, elongated f's and small f's.

I really enjoyed working with the block, but as Leah points out, it is a border design, I am not sure I put it into a quilt as the main pattern.

Free Motion 6 and 7/365

Yesterday I choose my block, Overlapping Arches, and headed out to the studio to sew.

It was late after a very long day of teaching, dentist and grumpy children, so when I got down to quilting I had totally forgotten I wanted to overlap the arches and ended up with just arches...

So this is day 6. I kinda like it. It is very simple to do, but does take practise to keep the stitches even when going over the curves. Looks like lovely fish scales!

Today I re-watched the video and had another go at over lapping the arches:

I prefer the effect of overlapping the arches. The stitch length does vary though, which I have decided will improve the more I work on my free motion quilting.

On a separate note, the gloves are fantastic! I started last night without them by accident and found it all so much harder! So if you are unsure about them, don't be! They make a huge difference!