Quilters do it free-motion

I have been sewing with Jengy for a little while, and learning all sorts of stuff, and wanted to try out quilting. It definitely appeals to me using the arts and crafty side of my brain in tandem with the precise-measurements, and pattern making graph paper side.

Quilts! After a couple try-outs with some smallish pieces of fabrics (pot holder, makeup bags, backgammon "board") I was hooked and determined to make a quilt.

Of course this involved reading 5,000 quilting blogs and sites. Old ladies still seem to reign supreme in this domain, but there are some pretty fun, cool sites out there too:

• Crafty Gemini - Crafter, Quilter, Farmer, pretty cool lady http://www.craftygemini.blogspot.com/
• Quiltsryche - Bad ASS quilts by an awesome lady named Boo Davis. Seriously awesome. http://www.quiltsryche.com/
• Quilt Dad - Dudes quilt too, even if there are all together too many pictures of his non-quilting kids on here. http://www.quiltdad.com/

ANYHOW, back to me and my first quilt-in-progress. Later I will figure out how to properly take photos of these.

I'm having a ton of fun with these and cant wait to finish them up! Not sure if I will attempt another pixel-by-pixel quilt as hole bejeebus, that's over 200 little squares per mushroom! Was thinking about doing the backing as a fun mario-cloud style, but I am getting antsy to have my finished product so... we shall see!

Yay quilts rule!