Jetgirl Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 I purchased a used APQS Millenium the day after Thanksgiving. After doing some all over quilting designs for a few quilts and taking a class on quilting negative space from Angela Walters, I dove in and had a lot of fun densely quilting my Foothills Mystery Quilt (created by Cheryl @Meadow Mist Designs). A simple snowbank and a bit of sunlight across a corner of the quilt starts to give you an idea of the texture and quilting detail that I put into the quilt. I do not have any idea of the total number of hours I spent on the quilting; it was a lot. I worked on the quilting over 3 days, and I was inspired to try a lot of new patterns and ideas after taking Angela Walters’ Quilting Negative Space workshop at QuiltCon. I used a wishbone pattern around the borders, a square spiral at each corner, swirl hooks in the negative space around the blocks, a large swirl hook in the center of each diamond surrounded by a small rounded meander to help the swirl hook poof and pop up, back and forth lines in the diamonds and stars (alternating the direction of the lines for each pattern), and a different FMQ pattern for each row of the gray blender. Whew! I used 50wt Aurifil #2692 (black) on the black and gray, and 50wt Auriful #2130 (medium butter) on the yellow and to sew down the binding. The thread blended perfectly into the quilt, and I really had a lot of fun adding in lots of dense quilting details across the quilt. I got more confident with the small swirl hook meander pattern as time went on, but because I made the pattern so small it took a lot of time and an entire large spool of Aurifil to quilt just the black portion of the quilt. Adding in the amount of the medium butter thread I used, the quilt has roughly 1990 yards or just over a mile of thread just in the quilting. Many more photos and details on the entire process can be read about in my blog post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enchanted Quilting Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 How fun!! I love the look and how you dove right in!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mlsa3 Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 Very pretty quilt. I don't know what is interesting about swirls but I love them. Yours look great on this quilt. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Row Studio Posted March 6, 2015 Report Share Posted March 6, 2015 very nice job of quilting Jet girl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kwilt-n-Deb Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 I love it, you did a great job on this quilt!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srichardson Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Welcome to the forum. What a wonderful job you made of your quilt. You have certainly bonded with your new machine! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luz2Quilt Posted March 7, 2015 Report Share Posted March 7, 2015 Love that you took the plunge and it paid off because it is a lovely quilt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wannabelongarm Posted March 8, 2015 Report Share Posted March 8, 2015 Hey, Jetgirl, way to 'take off!' Great to meet you in Austin, and I will look forward to more quilts to come! Joanne Flamand APQS Sales and Education - Canada www.artisticquiltdesign.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekah Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Welcome to our family and I sure like how you have jumped in and are learning new things. You are doing a great job!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibbyG Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Yes, you used a lot of thread, but you had so much fun doing it. I love the designs. Great job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetgirl Posted March 11, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Thanks, everyone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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