Sunday 26 February 2012

A weekend of zig zag quilting

When I quilt I mostly do straight lines.  Or not so straight lines whatever way you want to look at it. Sometimes I do lots and lots of straight lines like this one and sometimes if I can get away with it less like  this one and this one.  I like straight line quilting a lot.  But this weekend I've been doing a lot of zig zag quilting like this on my new niece's quilt:

Zig Zag Quilting

And this on a cushion for her older sister:

Zig Zag Quilting on B's Cushion

And I even branched out and tried it using variegated thread on my bathmat from the Fat Quarterly workshop I did back in August at Festival of Quilts *:

Zig Zag Quilting on my bathmat

* Note to self: your machine does not like variegated thread and it especially does not like doing zig zag quilting with a towel for backing using variegated thread.  And you are lazy and do not like using your unpicker (especially when the backing is towelling)

6 comments:

  1. Bwahahaha, love the note to self! The wiggly quilting looks good though :oD

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  2. I love your zigzag quilting. :o) And what a cool bath mat. And your neices' projects turned out sooo cute!! I think I need to hang the last part of that note to yourself up as a note to myself, too, as I am also lazy and do not like unpicking!!

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  3. Love your Zigzags! Haven't tried that but it looks fabulous!

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  4. Funnily enough, my machine doesn't like variegated either, not even Aurifil variegated.i would love to know why.

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  5. Looks great Amanda! I want to make a hexie bath mat for our bathroom!!

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