I've been dying to try spiral machine quilting. There are so many lovely examples on the web. After reading a tutorial or two, I decided to give it a shot with this quilt top that's been been sitting around my sewing room for way too long.
My wonderful sewing machine has one major flaw - the walking foot does not have a quilting bar/guide. Not good for spiral quilting. Actually, not good for straight line quilting, either.
If any of you out there own a Juki 2010Q (or similar Juki), please let me know how you manage this. Did you find a different walking with a guide? Do tell.
Sans guide, I simply eyeballed the spiral. I drew a little circle with a fabric marking pencil as a starting point and went for it. All the tutorials say to start very slowly. They aren't kidding.
Here's the finished product. Wonky spirals to go with wonky stars!
The perfectionist in me is going nuts, but the realist says let it go.
Wow, that quilting looks really bad. Funny bad!
At least it's sorta okay from a distance...
Practice makes perfect, right?
Happy sewing,
-Annik
