Happy feet

Finally armed with my new walking foot and cotton batting, I am finally back to work on Brooklyn's baby quilt. I basted the whole thing together fairly easily and with a little help from Robert to get the walking foot installed on my machine, I was off to the races. A how to video on You Tube suggested that I start quilting in the middle of the quilt and work my way out. I knew that quilting something so large on such a small machine would prove difficult, but since it was a baby quilt I didn't think it would be so bad. It's pretty tough.

As you can see in this photo, there's a lot of fabric jammed into that small space between the needle and the machine. I was able to quilt about 1/4 of the quilt before deciding to take a break examine my work.

Since I screwed up some of the measurements on the quilt squares, the lines across the quilt are not even. This means when I go to actually quilt horizontally (I've only done verticle lines so far) I'll have to cut through the quilt squares or sacfrice the perfect grid on the back of the quilt. I decided to cut through the squares and go for the perfect grid. It's easier almost than I thought except for wrangling the fabric. The end is in sight and I'm really excited to see it taking shape. I can definitely see myself becoming a regular quilter.