Bonus Free Motion Quilting Challenge

SewCalGal had a bonus free motion tutorial in August by Susan Brubaker Knapp. Susan lives in North Carolina. She visited our guild several years ago. She is very talented and has written many books and patterns. The quilt with the pink border in my header is one of her patterns.

Let me tell you about this challenge. Susan wrote, " Go outside or inside your house and shoot everything you see with a strong obvious texture or pattern. Try to disengage your brain, don't think about what would be pretty or interesting. Don't overthink. Just shoot, shoot, shoot."

Here are some of the photos I took outside my house. It was fun just going around the yard taking photos of whatever caught my eye.

I picked one of the photos, traced the printed photo on tracing paper, then traced it onto my fabric. I quilted this in variegated thread and did lots and lots of circles. Here is my finished project.

 Here is the photo I decided to use. This is a circle of iron that once used to be the base of a glass table. It was my son's table and the glass got broke in a move. He was going to throw the iron part away and we told him we would take it. We now use it as the circle of our outdoor fire pit.

It was a fun challenge and I would like to try more of this type of quilting.

Here is another fun fall photo. Love those Carolina skies.

With Passion,
Carrie P.