I wonder if I'll be able to fit them all in by the end of the year? I want to thank Sarah Vedeler for sharing her spiral tutorial, and SewCalGal for hosting the challenge. I still have four more months to make up in addition to the new challenge that will be posted in December. So, my November FMQ challenge is completed and crossed off my list. I wonder if there's any chance I could convince my husband to go out in search of cinnamon rolls at 9:30 at night? I'm suddenly hungry. Oh, and the surprise? When I flipped my practice sandwich over after quilting it, I discovered that my "ugly" brown backing fabric had been transformed into cinnamon rolls by the quilting design! Mmmm. Then I'd only have to mark the first line, and I could use that guide thingy on my walking foot to space all the other lines evenly. So, if this was for a real quilt, it might be worth it to actually quilt the grid lines with water soluble basting thread before quilting the spirals. Who knows what kind of dye makes it red? I'm planning to wash my practice sandwich now that it's finished, to see whether the markings come out or not.Īlso, now that I'm done with this, I notice there are bulges of fabric puffing up between my spirals, and I don't really like that. Again, I would never use this to mark a real quilt. But I had this whole box, with so many colors, and I didn't want to put the challenge off another day, so I threw caution to the wind and tried white, gray, yellow, and finally a lipstick red piece of tailor's chalk. Now, do as I say, not as I do - you're NOT supposed to mark the front of your quilt with tailor's chalk because it is intended for marking the WRONG SIDES of garment fabric, and it might not wash out of a finished quilt. I finally grabbed the musty, ancient cigar box full of tailor's chalk that once belonged to Bernie's grandparents who were tailors. Unfortunately, I had trouble with ALL of my marking pens and pencils today - the purple and blue markers, chalk and soapstone pencils - none of them would make a line on that green snowman fabric that I could see long enough to draw the adjacent line. Sarah had instructed us to mark out 1" and 2" grids on our practice sandwich so we could practice two sizes of spirals. So tonight, I layered up a seasonal snowman printed fabric on top, Hobbs Tuscany Silk batting scraps in the middle, and an ugly brown paisley fabric for my backing. After a few days of this, they did start getting better. ![]() ![]() ![]() It wasn't as easy as it looks, and most of my spirals were shaped more like the wheels on the Flintstone family car than like actual circles. Then I switched to a different drawing app, one with a graph paper background option, and practiced drawing the spirals freehand.
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