There are large mysteries, and small. One thing that perhaps you can assist with is to identify what this mysterious object is: (I bought it for 2$ yesterday at a flea market)
Well, I can sort of see what it "is"-- six little cylindrical pots held together in a framework, made of a thick aluminum, I think. But I am mystified to what it was created for-- what it's use is/was.
(here is a bit more of my booty from the sale.....
some nice frames, a desk lamp for 5$, and some pleasant flower paintings,. We also got a nice used piece of furniture made by MacKenzie Childs, but it is still in the back of the truck, waiting for some stronger people to carry it into the house, so I will photograph it later this week.
Today, I've been very busy quilting again. Lots of FMQ (Free Motion Quilting) going on around here.
I had been doing swatches (largely based on Leah Day's FMQ blog-- button on sidebar!), and was then trying those designs on my bright quilt, until I came to the end of my 1000m of pink/orange variegated thread --- that's the empty green spool pictured here. Yes, there is lots of stitching on that quilt, but I am using the thread in the bobbin as well as on the top, so, really it has 1/2 of a kilometer stitched on it so far.
I was having a good time with this, and was reluctant to have it come to an end. So, I decided to quilt the double wedding ring quilt that I had pieced Last Year.
I really couldn't see doing all the centers with the same design, as that would get a bit boring, so I just carried on with my pattern experiments.
I did an outline of the curves first with the walking foot-- in the ditch. That way I could remove all the pins and have it pretty well stabilized. This was also helpful because this quilt top did not lay flat. Not by a long shot. With all those curves and odd shapes meeting, the white spots need to be quilted into submission.
It might be that I need to do something in the colored fabric spots as well, but I'll worry about that later.
these are some of the patterns that I am trying in the white spaces. It is fun to fit a pattern into these odd shapes-- the little inside pieces that look like footballs, and the larger squarish shapes with concave sides.
I did do some practice ideas in my sketchbook. With those and my little swatches, it isn't too hard to make something different in the shapes as I go along.
And this is the back of the quilt so far:
It's going to be another of my quilts that I think of as "finished is better than perfect".
I hope you are having a wonderful weekend too!
