Boxy Quilting

The second quilt I made in the Beginner's Quilt Along is now half quilted.  I attempted to do a free motion quilting pattern that my friend Marjorie (Marjorie's Quilting Bee) showed a couple of days ago.  As soon as I saw it, I thought, "Hey that looks like one of my doodles."  The pattern is a series of overlaid squares.  I doodle these on paper all the time. So my thought was that I could sure do it on a quilt too.
The thing is, on paper I pick up my pen and move it easily.  Not so with quilting.  Also, I can see where I am going and where I have been at a glance.  Again - not true on a quilt. You see the presser foot and the arm of a standard machine gets in the line of sight.
Still I did an entire half of this quilt with this pattern - or should I say "a loose interpretation of it"

You can see the pattern in this piece. 

Hmm...I got a little "lost" or should I say "creative" here.

Even with my "errors" this pattern worked out very nicely and will make a lovely quilt.
You can see Marjorie's version on her blog post dated October 8th.

As you can see it all but disappears on the white fabric with aqua dots.  I used a white Aurifil thread and it worked amazingly well.  I used it in the top AND the bobbin. What I really loved was that for this half of a large lap quilt, that is quilted fairly densely, I only needed two bobbins!  With the other thread I was using, it was common to use four for this.  Not having the bobbin run out so soon certainly helps to maintain the creative flow.  I do love some Aurifil thread goodness!