That fourth baby I was talking about in the last post was actually born on Saturday! I got the email just about 1/2 an hour after posting that. Well, now I've got a binding to finish too. Since I'm here again, here are some photos of the quilting of that one. I forgot to mention that a huge difference in my machine quilting happened when I bought some of those machine quilting gloves. Huge difference!! I realized my hands were slipping and that was making it really hard to control the quilt.
The other thing that made a difference was lots of practice. These are my sample machine quilting sandwiches I use whenever I feel I need to try it out before doing it on an actual quilt. I just keep adding to them. I made these for my first and only machine quilting class 7 or 8 years ago.
I just realized I have two other quilts I started recently. They are based on Gwen Marston's liberated exquisite block. I like these because they are so simple. I made a red version right after buying the book, Liberated Quilting. That one was a one day project. These are on the back burner for a little while since I've got so many other things to do. Here's one of them. The other looks pretty much the same, but is rectangular rather than square. I used a bunch of leftover green triangle bits for this.
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