Weekend Blogging

John built me a quilting table from shelves for the stand and the top is a big piece of wood

I started on my second quilt. This is a Rail Fence quilt.

These are the precut strips. There are five strips to one block and just alternate the colors.


First five strips sewn





I have joined all the blocks, next have to add the borders, batting and then the bottom layer.

I always want to make a Quilt. So today, I went to WalMart and bought the following tools:

A cutting board, ruler and a rotary cutter.

And this weekend, I bought two pieces of fabric from the Thrift Store and below is my almost complete Quilt.




To start, I cut out all the squares from the fabric and join 4 squares with the green fabric. I have one more block to do and next I have to join all the blocks, sew in the batting, back cover and then the border and I will be done.

I was having problems with the bottom layer as it keeps "bunching up" when I was quilting the layers. A lot of sites recommend the "walking foot". So I bought a "Singer EvenFeed Foot" for my Brother machine and the lady in the store teach me how to mount it to the machine and also to use a #90 quilting needle and it solves my problem.

The foot from the left side


The foot from the right side


View from the front


Example of bottom layer "bunching up"



Bottom layer sewn with the EvenFeed Foot