Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Big Swirl, Little Swirl

So this morning I have been free motion quilting away.  (yes, I should be packing, but I will procrastinate that until tomorrow morning ;)  Anyhow, this morning I have been doing swirls ;)  When ever I start quilting swirls, I tend do automatically quilt a small (but not micro) swirl.  I think this is because it is how I learned.  When I was quilting swirls on my domestic machine I would do what was comfortable without having to move out of the range of my two hands, which automatically equalled a small swirl.


So after quilting some small swirls this morning, I decided it was time to play with the scale a bit.  These are a set of matching quilts and the larger of the 2 is going to get snuggled a lot, so I wanted it to stay soft and cozy to snuggle in . . . . so I needed to quilt Big Swirls.  I can't tell you how many times I had to remind myself Big, Big, you are quilting Big ;)  I just keep wanting to go back to that small swirl ;)


Side by side gives you a better idea of the difference of scale ;)  Fun huh!!!  It was a good reminder this morning to play with scale more often in my quilting.  It can really add such a fun dimension to your quilting and it is so fun to quilt ;)   I really need to incorporate it more often ;)  


And now, I am off to bind these 2 quilts and I promise to share more of them next week when I get back from market.   That is if I ever get packed to go ;)

Have a Happy Quilting Day!!!

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9 comments:

  1. Both of your swirls patterns look wonderful. I us a domestic machine for my FMQ so I totally understand keeping the size of the pattern between your two hands.

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  2. There IS a difference between the two! Glad you put the two together so we could see the difference. I love the large swirl: so pretty and comfortable looking! Have a WONDERFUL time in Houston!! What will you be doing? Do you have a booth? Is anyone going with you? Sherri McConnell is going too. What fun it would be if you were on the same flight!! Hugs,Helen

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  3. LOVE it! I'm so afraid to FMQ so I just keep doing straight lines! These are gorgeous!

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  4. I know what you mean about quilting a larger size of a design. My natural tendency is small. To make things bigger I have to continually remind myself bigger......bigger.....bigger. A quilting friend of mine who does long arming professionally said that she'll put an object on her quilt to remind her how big the design should be. I tried it with press on circular labels and that really helped.

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  5. if only I could swirl!" Have a great time at market

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  6. LOL Melissa, I have been 'fighting' this too lately. I am fairly new to FMQing, but whenever I would start quilting, my designs were always small. I recently made a wall hanging and had to keep telling myself 'make it big, make it big' while quilting it :) Your swirls are beautiful, both sizes! And, of course, they both have their places. Sometimes you want big, sometimes small.

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  7. The big swirls look smoother. I like them. I try to do different scales and fall back into the one I'm comfortable with too. sigh

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Thank you so much for your sweet comments. I just love hearing from you!!
Have a Happy Quilting Day :)

Melissa