Dust Off a Quilt Book Blog Hop (Friday Foto Fun #72)

Happy Friday! BeaQuilter has been hosting the Dust Off a Quilt Book blog hop all week and today is my turn to share!

The concept is to take one of the many quilt books that we all have and dust it off.  Make a project from the book!  The book that I chose was the 180 Doodle Quilting Designs!  I have so many free motion quilting books and I am still terrible at it because I don't practice!

I took a couple of the designs and practiced sketching the doodles over and over again.  Here are two of the many pages that I've sketched!  I think I ended up with over 20 pages of doodles!

I got better and better the more I doodled!  I can definitely see how doodling helps your free motion skills.

Next, I attempted to free motion a couple of designs I had practiced doodling.  I used the blue thread with my Bernina with a stitch regulator.  I decided to set up my Juki to free motion quilt and that's the one on the bottom with white thread.

It's really nice to remember that when your quilting thread blends in, the flaws are less noticeable.  However, I did learn that I need guidelines so my motifs don't shrink or expand in size!  Click on the photo above to see the details of my quilting!

Have you ever tried doodling to get better at Free Motion Quilting?

Be sure to check out all the other great bloggers in this blog hop!

 

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