I've just got back from a fabulous week in Yorkshire with my friend Helen and Linda, and we spent the week on a residential quilting course with Philippa Naylor. The majority of the other ladies on the course were doing wholecloth quilting, but I'd emailed Philippa to see if I could do curved piecing again as I really struggled with that when I did it on a course with her a few years ago. I'd packed a selection of batiks for my sample, and couldn't wait to get started!...
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...it's important to have the right tools for the job - a narrow ruler, a pencil, a small rotary cutter and a pair of perfect scissors! Once the temples had been marked onto the fabric, cut out and pieced together, it was time to decide on the quilting. I'd taken a box full of beautiful Aurifil threads with me, and these were perfect...
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...I practised lots and lots of free motion quilting, and was really pleased with these swirling feathers in the outer border. Once the FMQing was completed, I added a double row of piping, firstly in bright orange and the second row in fuchsia pink. Finally a half-inch wide curved binding is added to frame it - this lime green certainly is bright!...
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...and here is my finished sample - I am absolutely thrilled to bits with this! If you click on the pictures, you can see some close-ups of the quilting and the piping. I still need to practise a bit more, but I'm so much more confident now, especially with these feathers, and I'll definitely add piping to more of my projects! I had a brilliant week away with Helen and Linda, and made new friends too. I'm looking forward to going back again next year!
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