Ok it has seemed to take A WHILE to get this portion of the quilt done, but I am so glad I finally finished it up last night. I did seem to get better and faster the more I stitched out my version of calm sea. I was disappointed however that the seam line I wanted to disappear seemed to jump out more once the quilt was finished in that area. I also learned that when I was stopping and starting that I would get this little "jump" looking stitch b/c the weight of the quilt was pulling the whole thing over just a little. You can see it in some spaces until I figured out just to raise the needle from the down position before starting back up again after shifting (does that make sense) and then I was better able to control where to stitch. ANYWAY, I'm moving on to the beach area today and I am wanting to do a larger version of Sashiko shell.....Hopefully I can get through this section quicker being near the edge with less bulk to move around! Another thing I have been trying to do is hide my tails as i go as opposed to waiting until the end.... Sometime if the tail is long it will get stitched up in other areas and I hate having to pick it out or work around the long strings...
I did have to rip out one small section due to stitching messing up on the back....don't you just hate when you go through a section five by five or so and have to rip it all out!
2 comments:
It is lovely quilting. The stitching near the bottom looks a lot like fish shapes near the bottom. I like that effect.
LOVE IT!!!!
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