Quilting on the bias

The trail mix quilting is in progress after about three weeks of procrastination! I got pretty burned out with the piecing process--this quilt has too many pieces.

The entire quilt is quilted on the bias, which is a nightmare! I have, for the first time I can recall, reached a point where I'm going to have to undo and requilt a line of stitching because it's cocked--I'm getting some puckering between parallel lines, probably because I was not allowing one of the lines to go through the machine at the same rate as the other. Frustrating. I'm enjoying the walking foot quilting look though, emphasizing the straight lines in the quilt with straight quilting before adding some awesome free motion stuff at the end. Can't wait for that to be done.

A Quilt for Quinn: Trail Mix

Quinn's getting a big-boy quilt! The pattern is Trail Mix, something I ripped out of a magazine years ago and pulled out of the files last weekend. Quinn's favorite color is green, so the quilt is mostly green with lots of acid tones in green and other colors, with some cools mixed in. The key color turns out to be pink--a fabulous pinwheel patterned pink fabric I added at the very last minute. It makes the pattern without making the quilt girly.


I love cutting fabric. Check out these stacks! Yipes.