Done other then a couple of spots where I want to put a couple of other things in my life once I get the fabric I need. Snippets for hair, things that represent my life i.e. 4 cats, 4 homes, antiquing, quilting, love my shoes, waterfront home, 4 states where we’ve lived, allot of driving, gardens, shop till you drop...which of us doesn’t do that. I never thought I could achieve making a face that looked like anything, guess I was wrong!

The best advice to myself was to keep telling myself : "don't over think it!" That kept me going and to just have fun. Thank Alex for a fun topic and nicely paced steps!

Roxanne, I don't free motion quilt. I draw my design on with frixion pens and then just stitch on the lines. You stop with the needle down position to pivot. Hopefully
you a hover position on your machine, where it stops with needle down, and the presser foot is about 1/8 up so you can pivot easily. Use it all the time. It works great.
HelenW

Beautiful Faith!

Working on my Freaky Flower Girl face!

Gorgeous! Love the colors. Love the flowers. How did you do the great lettering?teresapieceworks wrote:

Flower Power Gal:

I’m also afraid of messing up my quilt! Be sure to make some practice Quilt sandwiches to work on first! I roughly drew out the hair shape on a practice sandwhich as that is going to be the most complex if I do fancy stitching on it. That way I will hopefully have more of an idea of what I want to do when I get to the real quilt.
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I'm going to give your suggestions a shot HelenW and Padma. But I've never done any FMQ before and I'm pretty terrified. LOL.

Face Quilt all finished

Padma99...absolutely love the hair!

Padma99, I made my applique flowers and hummingbirds using raw edge applique with steam a seam. I build the unit on a piece of parchment paper.
I do the decorative stitching with some tear away stabilizer. I pull off as much of that as I can when done decorative stitching. If there are small areas where the
fusible is still covered by stabilizer I will just pull a pieced of the stabilizer from a sheet of steam a seam. Lay it over the spot. Lay a piece of parchment down on top
of it and iron. Let it cool completely. Important. Pull it off the parchment paper. Place the applique on the already quilted background and fuse it down. Then I edge stitch
around it with 1.0 1.0 zig zag. If you were using it for a bed, rather than the wall. You can always go back in and stitch main parts. Like the on the flowers echo in the purple
area with purple thread, outlining the white spikes. You do want quilts to be even density of quilting I just do what ever it seems like it needs. The hummingbirds are a modified version of a Joann Hoffman pattern called Hummingbird Lane.

I have done one bed quilt that had a lot of applique , but my friend with a long arm quilted it. The people that got it have washed it without problems.
This is a picture of the quilt. HelenW

Ok I'm all done. So now how do we bind this? I'd like to have an invisible binding. Alex do you know how to do that binding method that only shows on the back?

Roxanne – – a couple days ago I put up my mermaid Quilt and I had blanket stitched all the edges. You may have to enlarge the photo if you are on the phone. I may add a couple more details, but then it’s onto quilting.
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