Then, Tuesday happened where I was kicked out of the house while the cleaners did their thing and would you believe it, I saw another tutorial video on a motif the quilter named fans.
Now I’ve seen these quilted before, just couldn’t quite get the hang of it by only seeing pictures and there it popped up in a video, step-by-step with valuable little informative sentences in between and close-up views of the quilting and I thought, bugger this, I can make another practise sandwich, I have to try this out.
This looks similar to the Baptist fan motif but done freehand, no stencil, ruler or pantograph needed and the best of all only a tiny bit on back-tracking.
Those who know me also know that I prefer full custom quilting however, I do realize this is somewhat pricy for most quilters and not always practical especially if a quilt is made for a kid who’d be dragging it along or heavily coloured fabric or prints. In these cases, the texture is more important than motifs. So, my aim for now, whenever I don’t have customer quilts, is to build my repertoire of edge-to-edge free motion quilting.
I’ve therefore started a new page to my blog specifically with these designs.
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