Stories from the Sewing Room

It's time to share your February progress!

My goal this month was to completely finish the art quilt I made in a class with Cathy Geier in April 2022. I'm pleased to say this intimidating project is complete! I custom quilted it using eight different thread colors, plus one more for the bobbin. I sort of successfully used Fil-Tec's invisible thread (couldn't get it to work with my IQ, but it was fine manually). 

Cathy told us we needed to quilt pretty densely, particularly on the trees. I actually worked up a sweat quilting the trees. 😅

You can see in the photo above that some of my bobbin thread pulled up. I decided I liked the effect because it added another color, the light brown, to the trees. Most of the tree bits are 1/4" - 1/2".

I did break a quilting rule. You should strive to stitch a fairly consistent density over the entire top. I did not, because I didn't want the sun rays to be quilted any closer than what I did. This did result in that area of the quilt bulging slightly. I think this could be corrected by blocking the quilt. The bottom of the quilt ended up a bit smaller than the top of the quilt due to the variation in quilting density too. 

For backing I used a piece of fabric left over from my very first quilt that I finished back in 1996. It isn't the most attractive backing, but this is a quilt that's meant to hang on a wall, so I think it's fine.

I also used a scrap of QD Bamboo batting. I considered using double batting, but I didn't have another piece that was quite big enough that I thought would pair well with it.

This project is also one of my tasks for my PHD this year! Yay!

Now it's your turn to share your progress. Link up your project and then visit others, make new friends, and gain inspiration.

This link up will remain open until February 29 at 11:55 pm EST.