{"id":2967,"date":"2017-02-23T15:50:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2967"},"modified":"2017-02-23T15:50:46","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T23:50:46","slug":"machine-quilting-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/02\/23\/machine-quilting-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Machine quilting practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Not too long ago I found out about a challenge sponsored by Teri Lucas <\/a>on her Facebook page. It’s a slow challenge, with the steps\u00a0\u2014\u00a0two so far\u00a0\u2014\u00a0coming 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\u00a0I’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\u00a0the “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!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0\u2014\u00a0two so far\u00a0\u2014\u00a0coming 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,299],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-free-motion","7":"category-quilting","8":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yzuO-LR","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2981,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2017\/03\/10\/machine-quilting-practice-installment-two\/","url_meta":{"origin":2967,"position":0},"title":"Machine quilting practice, installment two","author":"Sandy","date":"March 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Actually, this is probably installment four, since the first step in this online project was to trace the main parts of the design and sandwich the little quilt. The second was to quilt along the wavy lines and then quilt flying geese inside those. The third step was\u00a0to draw three\u00a0large\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Free motion quilting"","block_context":{"text":"Free motion quilting","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/quilting\/free-motion\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IMG_2147-300x230.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5236,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2024\/01\/04\/the-curves-are-done\/","url_meta":{"origin":2967,"position":1},"title":"The curves are done!","author":"Sandy","date":"January 4, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"I put the finishing touches on a quilt I'd been working on -- or on and off! -- for a couple of months. Of course, the holidays were in there, so I'll blame the slow progress on that. ;) This was something I made to practice a technique (Pieceliqu\u00e9) I'd\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Appliqu\u00e9"","block_context":{"text":"Appliqu\u00e9","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/category\/quilting\/applique\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Split circles (red\/white) are set into off-white and black background, the resulting blocks forming an on-point black square surrounded by large off-white triangles. 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