Rhonda Bracey: At Random

I had some foundation paper piecing patterns from Bobbie, so decided to make half a dozen Christmas coasters (perhaps as gifts—I’m not sure what I’ll do with them yet). Yesterday I made the blocks, and today I added the backing and batting, did some stitch-in-the-ditch quilting on them, and added the binding. I still have to finish hand sewing the binding on the other five, but here’s the first one finished.

This was a great way to use up some fabric scraps! Each coaster measures 12cm x 12 cm (about 4.5 inches) square, and each has taken about 1 hour to complete. This is NOT a cheap gift for a set of six if you take into account the cost of my time. Lucky I do it ‘cos I enjoy it! 😉

Christmas coaster - tulip block

I needed to find out how to do the tuck/fold method of joining binding strips on some mini quilts I’m making. Bobbie had shown me a few weeks ago, but I’d forgotten. So it was off to Google again…

I forgot to add ‘quilt’ as a keyword—here are my search results. Almost all are related to quilting (and I found my answer amongst them). But look carefully… Result #6 is interesting…

Search results

I’m a raw beginner at machine quilting and have tried to learn more just by practising, reading some stuff on the internet etc. Then I came across this EXCELLENT 43 min video on doing free motion machine quilting. Now to practice some of the techniques…