While refining the designs for the next couple of projects, I knew I needed to practice my FMQ'g. This is just a basic part of maintaining a skill. At a recent LQG meeting I picked up a pre-printed panel intended for making a cushion, off the "touch'n'take table"-one of those things you used to be able to buy at the old fashioned 5 and 10 cent stores. It is quite old, and I have no idea who the designer might have been. It is about 17 " square. I drafted a pattern turning the single design into a larger 4 patch-type design.
Over the past week, I've turned this into a small whole cloth quilted hanging, all done with FMQ'g. As it was for practice, I didn't worry too much about things that weren't quite perfect-fair warning!
Here is the finished hanging, waiting for binding. I used Superior So Fine in white, for the background areas and Superior Fantastico, 5024, for the flowers and leaves. It finished at about 32" square.
And here are close-ups.
I had particularly wanted to practice using a combination of circles and matchstick quilting in the background areas, and in the technical aspects of creating a woven grid.
I plan to link this with Nina-Marie Sayre's Off the Wall Friday, and The Needle and Thread Network.
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