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This week is the final chapter called Butterflies in the book “The Ultimate Guide to Machine Quilting” by Angela Walters and Christa Watson. HollyAnne, Kristin and Jen are joining me in this journey. The four of us are blogging our way through the book and each week that goes by we are practicing more and gaining confidence with each exercise. I am a long armer and the other ladies are using their domestic sewing machines. The patterns for the quilts in the book are amazing but we are focusing on the free motion quilting for the blog hop. Links to the previous weeks are on the side bar tab for the Machine Quilting Blog hop. Join the party at Instagram using hashtag #machinequiltingbloghop

The final week is here. This week is the chapter about making a whole cloth quilt. In this chapter of the book the quilt was a intricate whole cloth butterfly quilt. It is a gorgeous quilt! I wanted to start on a smaller scale and draw my own design in the center. I used a compass to draw the center medallion and flowers. Then on the paper I outlined it in a sharpie. Next, I laid the white fabric over the paper and used a Frixion pen to trace the design.  I then drew a large square around the circular motif and filled it with lines like sunlight. I filled in the negative spaces between the rays and outlined the square. Then quilted all links of spirals and swirls. Hard to describe so let me show you …. and there will be a video at the end to discuss this little quilt. I was so proud of it I signed my name at the bottom. When I was finished, I hit the frixion pen marks with my hot irons super steam, I did not press the quilt.

You can click on each picture to see the progress on the quilt and below is the video talking about making the quilt.

I want to remind everyone the giveaway is open until July 7th and don’t just enter mine I have three friends who are also giving away a copy of the book, too.

I hope you had as much fun as I did during the machine quilting blog hop. I appreciate the time spent reading and participating in the blog hop. I am going to keep practicing and tomorrow I am posting  of a recent finish. I have lots of thing going on creatively…. pretty much all the time. I have a Facebook Group as well as my Instagram account that you can see the feed on the side bar. I also have a podcast twice a month, AND you can sign up for my newsletter to keep up with all I have going on.

Quilt on!

Vicki