You will need to bring your backing fabric, as well as some batting. If you have some 505 glue, that could be handy, but of course if you are using the glued batting this won't be needed. Pins (safety type pins) and tacking thread may also be helpful.
If you are going to play at machine quilting and have not done this before, perhaps you could find any extra feet for your machine, (the one that works for free motion quilting is the darning foot), also the instruction book for your machine, just so we can help if you need to drop your feed dog or need any other adjustment to your machine. We found that some machines can't drop the feed dog, but have a separate plate that goes over the feed dogs, so you would need to bring this along with you. Hand Quilting can be done with your normal quilting thread, or you could try using some perle thread or something similar to give some extra detail. Remember to bring sewing needles.
Not rushing you, but once you have quilted, you will then need to bind your work, so please bring fabric that can be cut into strips for this.
See you all on Monday.
Monday 2nd April (apologies for the delay in posting!)
At our meeting on the 2nd April we were working on our Christmas wall hanging. This is being completed over a number of months with the ladies all designing blocks that will fit together to make a festive hanging.
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| Some foundation piecing going on here |
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| open up to show the magic! |
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| A cute applique Reindeer |
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| And some serious hand quilting here! |
Good to see some people attempting the paper piecing, not the easiest job, but all looking good.
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