Flag Day quilt block
Craftsy advertised a darling flag quilt block for free on Facebook that I saw last Monday that I immediately downloaded. Since my niece is getting married and I'm very into spending labor rather than money right now, I thought it would make a cute set of placemats out of my stash for her upcoming wedding! I'm not done; in fact, I have only quilted two placemats so far, but I have learned a few useful tidbits! First, here is the first one of the quilted placemats. Free motion quilting isn't my bag yet so I used the walking foot for stitch in the ditch and echo stitching. This is a close-up of the quilting stitches. At this point, I used white in the bobbin so the stitching on the back is much more easily seen than on the front. If you look closely though, you can see that each line of stitching was separate from the previous stitching. Apparently this is not ideal. You should try to use a single thread all the way through your quilt, NOT ...