Monday, October 29, 2012

Free Motion Quilting Challenge for Oct.



This months Free-Motion Quilting Challenge over at SewCalGal's is with Teri Lucas, this was a fun if slightly intimidating month. I did mine on cotton, silk sounds beautiful for this but if I had silk I'd be wearing it. Starting out with our names then decorating the entire block around it sounded like fun. 


I love the shell shapes, so fun and even the first attempt looked "not bad". As usual I tried to copy the beautiful example Teri gave us, I need to let myself process all of this, then I can play more and make it my own. I've found that I do that with every month's example, then slowly I see it showing up in my quilting. I did change my thread colors, but they weren't dramatic enough to really show up. 

It did make me wish I had a more exotic and longer name like Carressa or Celestine and I did call my mother to complain, she said to blame my father (Dan) and he wouldn't come to the phone. 
C'est la vie

Later gators,
Dana Carressa Celestine

4 comments:

  1. Caressa Celestine huh? Makes 'Pat' seem pretty boring now! Gotta get back to work on mine, hopefully something not too scary to show by Halloween! Nice job Dana!

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  2. Oh, you did beautifully with the shells! I couldn't get those at all - goes with that feather phobia. Great job all the way around!

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  3. I think you did a great job. This was certainly a challenge as it exposed many to a completely different style of FMQ, but you really did great. I wish my shells looked as good as yours.


    SewCalGal
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