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Monday and Tuesday night, I confess, I was lazy.  There was no stitching going on at my house.
So tonight (Wednesday night)  I decided to break that pattern.  I grabbed two squares of fabric and some batting.  The machine already had thread in top and bobbin so I just used what was there. (completely forgetting that I need more of it for the other quilt I was working on! yikes!)

I took a cereal bowl and a chalk pencil and drew a circle in the middle of the top piece of fabric.  And I started free motion quilting. I followed the circle first.  Then I used a pattern from the Leah Day free motion filler class and made it giant size, filling the circle. Leah calls this filled circle "sawblades."  That part went GREAT!
Then I tried spiraling out from there.  As you can see my spiraling needs work.

The outer edges are not round. Oh well...it is better than I was doing two months ago, so I am happy. Then I filled the spiral lines with pointy spikes, pebble circles, and U shapes.
Here is the back side

This is nowhere near perfect, but that is okay. I learned that next time I will draw the spiral too.  I have learned to follow the line much better.
I also learned that it is easy to lose sight of where you have sewn if you use a variegated thread that at places disappears because it matches the background.

Now for the good news.  I still have plenty of thread on the spool to finish the other quilt.

Have you tried free motion quilting? Did you like it?  Did it scare you?

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