WIP Wednesday

I had a pretty productive week.  In addition to making a passport wallet, I also finished some more wonky cross blocks. . .

wonky cross blocks
I am about halfway done with these blocks now.  Most of the first half are lighter blues and I am planning on cutting some darker blues and more neutrals for the second half of the blocks.

And basted, quilted, and squared up my groove quilt . . .
groove quilt - quilted!
Hopefully I will get the binding started today.  I was very torn about how to quilt this one.  Generally I am a fan of straight lines, but I did not think that would be right for this quilt.  I am not very comfortable with free motion quilting, and I have only really ever done some pebble quilting, so I didn't know if I would be able to come up with a different way to quilt each color.  

I am pretty happy with how it turned out.  It is FAR, FAR from perfect, but it is better than I expected it to be.  I figure if I waited to start doing more free motion quilting until I was amazing at it, it would never happy ;) 

Comments

  1. Heather D.September 5, 2012 at 10:07 AM

    Wow, look at your free motion quilting! I'm so impressed Erica.

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  2. ShawnSeptember 5, 2012 at 10:10 AM

    Your machine quilting looks great! Love the colors too :)
    shawn@studio57artz.blogspot.com

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  3. ShannaSeptember 5, 2012 at 10:56 AM

    Love your quilting in your groove quilt!! Can't wait to see the whole thing :o)

    Shanna

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  4. KellySeptember 5, 2012 at 1:12 PM

    The groove quilt quilting is brilliant!

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  5. Little Island QuiltingSeptember 5, 2012 at 1:39 PM

    Love the quilting on your groove quilt

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  6. Marjorie's Busy CornerSeptember 5, 2012 at 1:44 PM

    Wow is all I can say about your quilting!! I wish I could do that well....I'm a hand quilter trying to learn FM but not good at it.

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  7. KrystaSeptember 5, 2012 at 2:43 PM

    Brave girl :) But I agree. It's best to just jump in and practice, instead of waiting till you feel you are good enough. I especially love what you did in the white stripe!

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  8. kirstenSeptember 5, 2012 at 4:23 PM

    Great job!

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  9. Caitlin T.September 5, 2012 at 6:01 PM

    The quilting on your Groove quilt looks amazing! I totally feel the same way about free-motion quilting and am challenging myself to do it on the quilt that I'm currently working on. It's not perfect but it's great practice!

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  10. CarlaSeptember 5, 2012 at 6:04 PM

    Your groovy quilt looks great!

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  11. DebbieSeptember 5, 2012 at 8:36 PM

    Your quilting on this quilt looks really wonderful! I challenged myself on my sorta recent G.O. Modern & am really glad I did - boosted my confidence ALOT!

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  12. AnneSeptember 5, 2012 at 8:45 PM

    I think your quilting looks great. Groove is a perfect quilt to test out lots of FMQ designs.

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