It's A Cynch!

This is the fun part of creating a tshirt quilt. It's like a game of Tetris or a big puzzle. I don't know how all of the pieces will come together until I'm working on them.

I completed my first rag quilt! Ok. Two rag quilts.  They look great and I'm pretty happy. It's a gift (as are all of my quilts) for my sister-in-law,  Stephanie. I made the twin of the rag quilt for my mother-in-law, Joan (her mom). The quilts are really warm and soft. I did have to wash them several times to get them to rag correctly.  The other thing I need to work on is designing more digital quilt patterns to use on the blocks. I designed some on Babylock's Palette 10 software like the one on the left quilt square below. I'm not a very artsy person, so I need to figure out how to get more creative.  I also need to work with the software to figure out how to "stitch" the designs together in order to fill the entire square. On top of that,  if I make the squares larger then the 7.5 inch width of my largest hoop for the Unity, an unquilted (is that a word?) area is left.  That bothers the engineer in me because the squares look unfinished. You can&#

There is a minor problem with embroidering a quilt square.  The backside of the square ends up with birds' nests everytime it trims a jump stitch. The only way I found to stop this is to turn off " trim jump stitch" and to bring the bobbin thread up to the top at the beginning. There will still be a little bit of nesting that occurred when it finishes the stitching,  but it's not too bad.