Well this is my first attempt at machine quilting... I think I did ok?? I'm not sure about my tension and my starting and stopping technique but I'm pretty happy with it. I love the verigated thread, it's cool! I have 2 to do, for my girls, and I started these quilts back when I was pregnant. The girls are now 15 months old... so I finally bit the bullet and realised they were never going to get hand quilted, so I had to do it by machine.
I feel sad that I've given away so many quilts to friends who had babies that were hand quilted and my own babies have machine quilted quilts... but I just don't have the time or the energy with 3 kids now... I'm tired!
I'm having a particularly bad time of it with the kids at the moment so it felt great to get this done so quickly - now I just have to hand sew the binding down, which will be very relaxing actually, I'm looking forward to it. And to machine quilting the next quilt too! It's so quick I can see why people choose it over hand quilting.
If anyone has any tips on machine quilting I'd love to hear... I really winged it!
Thanks!
