It's a beautiful Saturday here in South Jersey...sunny, temperatures in the 60's, but far too wet to work out in the yard! Besides, with it dipping back into the 30's this week, I don't think I want to get anything started out there!So, instead of playing outside, I've been playing inside! I've finished the first layer of quilting for my MQX challenge quilt. What you see in the picture is the first layer of batting on the back. It's a thick batting and I've done the quilting in water soluble thread. I will trim away all the areas that I don't want to be trapuntoed, then will put it back on the longarm with another, thinner batting and backing, then quilt it again. I've named this quilt "Courage". It's the first time I've ever entered a quilt into a show to be judged. It's also the first time I've ever done trapunto. It's taken a great deal of courage for me to get it this far...now I can't wait to get it done!
In the meantime, I think I'll load a quilt onto the machine that I can get finished quickly and will require a minimum amount of "thinking" to get it done. Sounds like my blue nine patch and some Baptist Fans will be the perfect thing to start!
4 comments:
Good luck with your quilt show entry! I have never done trapunto either, altho I keep thinking about trying it. It can make a beautiful quilt and I can't wait to see yours! :)
I've done a bit of traupanto, but nothing to this extent, yet! You are brave, indeed! Good luck and I'll keep peeking back to see how you get along with it.
Your blue 9-patch will look great with the fans.
Good luck with this, what a challenge! Please post more pictures as you progress, this is going to be very interesting.
That is a lot of courage - can't wait to see it complete.
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