Quilting and Planning on A Monday

Happy Monday! First, thank you, thank you, thank you to all of you that responded to my last post about thread breaking.  I was overwhelmed with the response! What a wonderful community this is!  The culprit seems to be leaving the presser foot down.  Sarah was the first to answer and it turns out I have gotten into the very bad habit of threading the machine with the presser foot down. I started being more observant about what I was doing and yup, presser foot was down. Who woulda thunk it? :)

Because I was able to get through more than two square inches without a thread break, here is where Spin (THANK YOU to Jasmine for the name suggestion!!)

I hope to have the last of the blocks done today.  I don't think the negative space will take as much time. . . I know, famous last words.

Love how that dense quilting makes the geese pop right off the quilt :)

Still pondering flattening out at least a portion of the middle part of the upper star. . .

I decided to flip the grid in the outer stars :)

I have been watching the back pretty closely, I had a wrinkle (I have to say that I have not had a wrinkle or tuck in a quilt back in a long time).  Thankfully there were just two very short straight lines of quilting to pick to get the tuck out.  I requilted and guess what? Still there!!  Ripped again and did a lot more smoothing. . . and was successful with the second try :) 

As I am working on this I am planning. . . my next quilt. That's normal right? :)  I have all of the fabric. . . Remember this design?

Off Course

It is going to become reality. . . with a few tweaks of course :) I am so excited about this one. I am using the New Colourshott cottons from Oakshott Cottons. I worked with Michael Oakshott to get the colors.  Michael was absolutely awesome to work with and so encouraging! If you have not worked with these new Colourshotts, you have to get your hands on some and give them a try! 

These beauties are going to be geese :)

Another angle because these fabrics really are just so gorgeous and take on different colors depending on the angle.

The backing is going to be black Widescreen and the negative space will be made up of the three grey fabrics and the black will be the wings for the geese.

Again, another angle.  Capturing the richness of these fabrics is SO difficult.

More on this as soon as I finish Spin! OK, I gotta get back to that quilt :) My goal is to have Spin finished by Friday. . . I have a plan for the negative space.  I'm certain of one thing, there will be no micro quilting in the negative space :D

Linking up with Marelize for Anything Goes Mondays and Judy for Design Wall Mondays.

Until next time, keep on quilting, don't sweat the small stuff AND it is ALL small stuff!!!