March 29, 2010

• update on my quilt

  

  This is my finished quilt top.  I put this top with the batting and the backing:

  

  and made my 'quilt sandwich'.  I tried to spray baste it together, but that did NOT work out the way I wanted.  I eneded up having to wash the backing to get the spray stuff off it, and then layer it again, and pin with safety pins. 
  Last night, I attempted to stitch it with the walking foot, but that didn't work out the way I wanted.  Today, I'm going to practice doing free motion quilting to see what happens.  I put a message thru to a friend on Facebook to see if her mom would volunteer her time to use her longarm quilting machine to quilt it for me since it's a donated quilt for an auction. 
  That would be great. 
  We'll see what today brings. 

  It's spring break here in WA state, and so the boys are home all day, all week.  I need to get creative to figure out projects rather than letting them play on the Wii all day.  That is SO not happening!  We'd like to go to the Oregon Coast, but it's supposed to rain all week here and there.  Yay. 

   

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