WIP Wednesday: Quilting edition!

I'm a little braver with my FMQing these days. Two reasons - first, I tackled my largest quilt yet on my home machine (7.5" harp space - yikes!) with great success, and second, my husband fixed my pedal. You see, my Bernina is from the 1970s. Most of it works beautifully - especially the tension. The tension is amazing on this thing!

But the pedal - sheesh. It overheats and stops working after 20 minutes of FMQing. And it's out of commission for a good hour while it cools down. And when nap time is 1 hour, 20 minutes, that means just 20 minutes of quilting per day! Maybe 40, if I feel like quilting at 10 pm at night...So I pick simple patterns. No more, my friends. No more. After a nice combination of duct tape, fans purchased from Amazon, and some scrap wood, a ventilation system was born and there are no more overheating issues. Quilt away!

So I've been working on FMQing the Scalloped Diamonds baby quilt with some pink thread.

I picked a different FMQ design for each fabric. My favorite one is this leafy/footbally shaped pattern on the bird fabric (based on the brown leaves in the print).

It was fun to quilt and I haven't seen much like it before! 

For the background, there is going to be some mimicking of the scalloped shape.
We'll see where that takes us :).

My other big work in progress at the moment is a baby....and for said baby, a stocking! This one gets a cross-stitched scene of two kids building a snowman. I just hope I can get it done in time for the holidays, since cross-stitching takes such a long time!! Especially when using that many shades of white. Gulp.

Lastly, I started quilting 9th Street & Boardwalk awhile ago and then got stuck...



I recently got some more ideas for it, so hopefully I get to work on that one again soon. Especially with this baby due! I was hoping to have it done before the baby came, but well....that may not happen. We'll see. 

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