Machine quilting practice

Not too long ago I found out about a challenge sponsored by Teri Lucas on her Facebook page. It’s a slow challenge, with the steps — two so far — coming every few weeks. The challenge is intended to give the participants some practice in free-motion quilting, and so far it’s been fun. The first step was to select fabric (I chose one I’m not wild about so as not to “waste” one of my favorites), trace the pattern Teri gave us onto the fabric, and create the quilt sandwich. The second step was to quilt the “whirling” lines and then to fill in those channels with quilted flying geese, using the horizontal lines as the base of the geese. I used my Bernina ruler foot and one of my rulers for most of the geese. It will be interesting to see what the next step will be!