Practice, practice

My ten minutes a day practice turned into more than an hour or two and now I think my eyes feel like the owls in this fabric. I must remember to blink occasionally.

Opal owl by Tina Givens because you might need to know.

And it came wrapped up in this lovely tissue paper, like a present. That would be a present from me to me along with some background fabric. I tell you that they have some good priced Kaffes at that shop.

Onto the free motion quilting practice. I even tried some hyper quilting on this one. I like it.

I've been trying out some background fillers.

Really, I wanted to be able to do some casual quilting, you know where you can take a scrap quilt and do something informal? Nothing that would end up like a cardboard quilt.

I got a bit keen on the feather again, they're just so addictive. A light variagted thread made this one a bit fun but the quilting is a bit dense for my liking  but this would be nice on other projects and you can change the scale. The blue washout pen on the spine is all the marking required.

And the back looks cool too. I do believe I'm having a good time and loosening up, why I might even say I've graduated from beginners and into the intermediate stage, a good place to be. Oh happy days at the machine and I love you Patsy Thompson DVD's.