Thanks for the picture of the whole quilt! Love geometric quilts! And, your couching and hanging doodads are such a wonderful artistic touch! Details! It's all in the details.

I'm supposed to able to do free motion couching with my new machine, so that will be a lot of fun to try. Not sure where I'd use that particular technique on a quilt, though. But, I can picture it on a pillow or a tote, perhaps.

Nancy.....

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

All of my feet must be crouching feet.....

A crouching foot is very similar to a couching foot. The only difference is that you must crouch over the sewing machine bed while couching threads.

Geneva

Lovely have fun

Don't worry Wendy we will soon be moaning about the heat and trying to cool down.
In May I hope to go to Spain for a week it's up in the hills so hope it won't be too hot.
Anne

Flipping autocorrect. Hello Anne, after gloating over being sunny we had snow yesterday!

Wendy, what's a crouching foot?
Your having trouble with your worms.
Have a lovely weekend........the sun is shining but it's still only 5 degrees here in Surrey.
Stay warm and cuddle up with Ingrid.
Anne

Wow even better. I bought a crouching foot but not tried it yet ....perhaps this afternoon

Geneva, I agree with other comments great colors and composition. Haven't couched yet I'll put on my list!

Love The Doors, Geneva--great colors and the composition, while informal is so appealing. Your imagination and sense of for color and composition are wonderful.

Yes Dawn, that is 2 different threads couched together. I bought the Bernina couching foot and it makes it so easy to couch threads.

Judy, just sew stuff! Every time I start to quilt something I get all balled up in my head and can't do anything! Finally I just draw a line and go for it. It always works out. I usually like to use several different colors of thread also. It gives a little more pizzazz to the quilting.

Thank you everyone for your compliments on "The Doors". It was such fun to make. I think I may have posted pictures of it on my blog on the old site. But here are some more. First is a full size view,



Here is another close up view,




And here is a picture of the Coke can in Times Square that helped me focus all the pieces/sections of "The Doors" into one piece.





It was cold and rainy yesterday and we planted 3 more trees here on Cairn Carroll. Today it is supposed to be sunny and 75! Yay!

Take care my friends,
Geneva

Well, Geneva, I'd say you have become quite proficient with the walking foot! Your work on "The Doors" is wonderful. And, is that couched yarn/cording I see in the perimeters? Very cool! Love the colors, love the quilting!

Dawn

Geneva, Thank you so much for all the information. The Doors is fantastic. I guess I just need to get over my fear of ruining a project and jump in the deep end. so
To all of you ladies that give so much of your time and expertise, Thank you. What a wonderful forum.

Judy

Love "The Doors"! Your sense of color and composition are outstanding! I love your walking foot quilting. I love straight line quilting as well as FMQ. They both have their place. I'm thinking about getting a new Bernina so that I can have the serpentine stitch, too. It's wonderful!