Practice Quilts

This is my first practice piece - I did lots of freehand stuff on this - even some very ordinary Mctavishing (mcmonking sounds rediculous - so I will still call it Mctavishing) . This is the first time I have done feathers - and after drawing them for weeks and weeks - it is good to be able to see how to do them on the machine - obviously I need a fair bit of practice yet!

Shadow has claimed this practice quilt as her own - she was found comfortably asleep atop the quilt which I had thrown over a chair. Cats do have to road test their owner's quilts at all times! This is the law of the cat.

This piece was a go at continuous freehand feathers - before my machine was rolling smoothly - you can see the difficulty with the squarish curves.

these next two pictures are of a piece I designed myself - the first is the front and the yellow pic is the back view - I really liked the fabric I used. The front is a piece of quilters muslin which I am going to colour in and heat set - another table runner? there are two butterflies on it and I love the curvey freehand meandering - so easy as this has been one of my long time doodling patterns.

This beauty is my very first go at a pantograph - under the close supervision of Sue (the APQS dealer in Australia). Pantos looks so much better when they are quilted on a piece = opposed to just looking at them on a roll of paper.