Moda Freebird Quilt

Yup its another quilt! Sorry guys, I know they're probably not very exciting to read about!



This one is from Moda's Freebird, its just a jellyroll that I've sewn into a strip quilt - I've actually had the topper sitting in my cupboard for ages, but after having a go with the free motion quilting I thought I'd do this one too.
Its very simple, but the colours match in well with our kitchen/loungeroom, so it will be living on the back of the couch.


I made the free motion swirls a bit bigger and looser with this quilt - it went a lot quicker and didn't use as much thread which was great - it was about 4hours to quilt this which is the same time it took me to quilt the small cot quilt last time!

Moda Sophie cot quilt

While we were building the sewing room I spent ages each night on the net reading sewing blogs and became pretty obsessed with Oh! Fransson, I loved her gorgeous bright modern quilts and the way the free motion quilting looks - the first quilt I made I made machine quilted as I had been told that quilting at home was really hard. So this was a bit of an experiment to try out free motion quilting - it makes doing more quilts a lot more likely for me because the cost of getting them machine quilted is a bit prohibitive.



This quilt is the Sophie Car quilt with a wider border and no ties, the backing fabrics are Sophie leafy swirl blue fiesta and Sophie overlay blue fiesta.


The free motion quilting was fun, while it was easier than I thought it did take a while (about 4hrs to do this size quilt) and it took a bit of practise to get the stitches the same length and you can see I still need to improve. I imagine with enough practise it would be a lot quicker to do and the stitches would be more even.


I love sewing garments but its nice every now and then to not have to worry about fitting and sizes and just sew! Plus it makes such a great gift - this is for my best friends baby girl :)