I worked some on my big
S Quilt over the weekend, and thought I'd show a little of my progress. As of the last post, I'd just used water-soluble thread to sew in some faux-trapunto, and before layering the main batting and backing, I did some quilting over these regions. I wanted them to have some stitching, but I didn't want to completely flatten out the trapunto. We'll see how it looks in the end. The main region in which I used the faux-trapunto was the dragon. Here's what he looks like with some scales and feathers quilted in. Ignore the ugly white stitching around the dragon, that's the water-soluble thread that will go away once I wash it.
For layering the whole quilt, I used wool batting and so far I like it. Instead of spray basting I tried a new method this time. You guys know how much I use spray baste, but it doesn't seem to hold things together as well on bigger projects and it makes a really big mess. My mom recommended
Sharon Schamber's method for basting. She has two great youtube videos demonstrating the process (
here and
here) that are definitely worth a watch. I went ahead and used her method, boards and all, and it worked great. I used the herring-bone basting stitch as she recommends and it seems to be holding things together pretty well. You just cut the basting stitches out as you go, and I haven't had any problems with them yet.
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| These are the big basting stitches. |
The only regions I've quilted so far (in addition to the dragon) are some leaves and the tree branch. I did pebbles and some spiky things in the leaves, and used a sort of modified version of
this stitch from Leah over at the
Free Motion Quilting Project for the branch. Now I just have to plan the rest of it!
Sorry this one is so out of focus, I had a really hard time taking pictures of the brown.
What about you guys? Any progress on the pile of UFOs? I have such a hard time not starting new things, and now I have to switch from this quilt to focus on my swap quilt for the
SewHappyGeek swap.
