Take a look at the first quilt I machine quilted. This baby quilt I used 3.5" squares in 4 different materials. I organized the pattern in a simple block design. For the back I pieced one solid piece and a strip of the patterned block design to make the material long enough. Ha ha.. my fault for not measuring correcty. When I went to quilt I attached the top and bottom via safety pinning which was super easy, compared to the basting I did previously. The top and bottom stay lined up and dont scoot around. Plus I have this super easy safety pining device called a Kwik Klip. It makes snapping those safety pins a breeze. When I started to do the machine quilting I used my waking foot and just sew'd "in-the-ditch" on all the horizontal seams on the front side. After taking my quilting class I have noticed this is SUPER easy now. WOW, what you can learn in only a couple hours. When piecing the back I made sure the quilting stripes went up and down 1/2 way through the squares because making sure they went "exactly" on the seams was way to hard. Needless to say it made for a great look.
Also I searched for Mitered Corners on youtube.com and found a nifty tutorial that made my corners look super great. I can tell I'm learning a lot and really progressing in my quilting skills. Take a look at the pics below.
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