I got together with several friends and started a monthly sewing club. Our first project is the pumpkin runner shown above Pumpkin Runner from Hoffman Fabrics. It was intended to be made of batiks but we each went through our fabric stash to come up with our designs. We were able to get most of the front constructed in our first session. Next we will add the backing and batting and at the next session we will free motion quilt our runner. The directions for this runner are vague for beginners but we figured it out. The term 'snowballing' was new to us and so I found a tutorial on how to snowball http://quilting.about.com/od/quiltpatternsprojects/ss/snowbal_economy_4.htm which clearly explained it. The last part of constructing the runner was the mitered corners which proved to be the most difficult part but again, we figured it out.
Now we are all beginners at free motion quilting and it is truly an art in itself. There are many helpful videos on the Internet but the most comprehensive source is The Free Motion Quilting Project by Leah Day http://www.freemotionquilting.blogspot.com/. FMQ takes hours of practice but I am quite intrigued by the beautiful results I see posted everywhere on the Internet so it has become an obsession to me to master it.
So look forward to the posting of my finished product in the next few weeks.
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