When I recently retired, I joined the American Sewing Guild (ASG) and the Emerald Valley Quilters (EVQ). At one of the meetings, a member did a nice presentation on color and showed us some quilt blocks she had made from a magazine. She shared that the magazine was from the year 1995. Now stop. Stop right there. No judging on the time line of someone’s UFO’s🤣
That she was willing to share that bit of information was so very freeing and it made me happy. Really happy. I went home and pulled out a box of UFO’s that I had started before I became a nurse and started working full time. Yes, some of those projects were from the 1990’s!
I found a stack of nine patch blocks. Time to make a quilt and finish that UFO! I completed it as a lap quilt. All I could see was the wavy border and how the quilting was uneven, but the recipient was quite happy with it.
Looking online at Craftsy classes and YouTube it appeared that I needed to purchase a quilting foot or a free motion foot for my machine. My Pfaff Hobby is probably 30 years old and they don’t have quilting feet to fit it. After completing a baby quilt, with the same results, I broke down and went shopping. I now have a Brother NQ 900.
The sample I did had beautiful quilt stitches! Then I basted another lap quilt and started to attempt to quilt it, and it wasn’t looking so good. Back to the Internet to find out a better way to baste.
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