Easter was very good to me

No I didn't get any Easter eggs - can you believe it our super market was sold out a couple of days before!

Well as you all know I have been trying to finish things before I start something else.  Well I may have started another........

Also as the 21st birthday quilts are a little behind (ok one of the recipients has just turned 24 ) and I had 4 to finish and another to do for this year so the pressure was on.

Easter was good as no work and lots of time to sew between guests.

I also decided to get a couple of the baby quilts done. Thanks Denny, I managed to get 3 out of the material I had using your small pattern and one large one. After finishing these I decided I needed to quilt them myself after all that's why I got the new sewing machine way back in 2011.

I started with straight stitching and mostly it was fine sometimes had trouble with the bulky seams and at times didn't seem to sew straight but it looked Ok over all

So then I started FMQ and after a couple of broken needles,  many thread breaks and lots of missed stitches I went to ask Mr Google what I was doing wrong! Guess what it worked out it wasn't me, but rather my machine. It seemed to be like this for everyone on one page I found, however I also found some suggestions as to what I could do to fix it. So I lowered the foot changed, the tension experimented with different needles and threads and have finally found satisfaction! It was actually fun once I fixed some of the issues and now I have another 2 kids quilts to experiment on so hopefully I will have a lot more ironed out once I get these done. Also in my research I found out that there can be an issue with straight stitching too, so maybe that wasn't me either and now that I know, I will endeavourer to see if I can fix this too!

Also I now need to do something more than stipple and straight stitch quilting.

So as I can't bring these up to see you for show and tell will need to do it via the blog. Sorry some you have already seen

The straight stitch quilted kids quilt using Aneela Hoey line for Moda. Have mixed a few of the lines in together from sherbet pips to a few later lines.

This one I'm embarrassed to say was started in 2009 from an Oh Fransson pattern and material from spoon flower by Laurie Wisburn. It has been waiting to be quilted for that long!!!

These next ones I think you have seen in some progress, but they are now all quilted and bound!

This one is only a year later for the 21st, so not bad really. I used Parson greys first collection from a Kaffe Fasett pattern.

This is the Sue Ross pattern which I enlarged. Another 21st present (recipient now 23! )

The BOM from maybe 4 or 5 years ago 

This was the mystery BOM finished with the same Anna Maria Horner social climber (boy I was lucky she bought more out and in the photo you can see the very subtle colour differences)  and used her field study as well

This next one is the only one where I think I could have used a darker binding material. I think this one is too light but I can't face changing it so it will remain there.

So here is my pile DONE 

and only 9 more to do but now I'm on a roll!!