Walking it Through Plaid Lozenges Quilt

Hello Dear Friends and Readers and a warm welcome to today’s post.

Today I would like to talk about unfinished quilts. I have had a pile which has been collecting for some years now…..I am sure some of you can well understand. I like to quilt my own quilts… but somehow I have got into a bit of a funk, as I haven’t made much progress with my machine quilting. Rather, I have been focusing my attention on hand quilting in the evenings.

A few of the tops which are ready, really lend themselves to some straight line quilting.

So, I decided to get some walking feet for the treadles to help facilitate that. Not all quilts require fancy quilting, especially ones designed to be very utilitarian.

There does come a time when completing the quilt is really the goal! Finished is better than perfect.

Consequently, my dear hubby got me some Singer Low Shank Even Feed Walking Feet on line for me. It was somewhat of an experiment, as one never really knows how well retro fitting feet to antique and vintage machines will work? I am pleased to say it was a success.

I am using a Singer Low Shank Even Feed Walking Foot and so far it is good. Singer Even Feed Waking Foot

My aim was to start with this quilt Lessons in Lozenges

Singer Low Shank Even Feed Waking Foot

I have adapted The Singer Low Shank Even Feed Walking Foot to 2 machines so far. One is attached to a singer 201K treadle. Singer 201K Treadle C1947 The second one, I have attached to a Singer 15 treadle. Treadle Tinkering Boyh seem to be working well. The only disadvantage, is that the machine becomes slightly more noisy. However, that’s always the case when doing machine quilting anyway.

Straight Line Quilting

I started the straight line quilting from the centre of the quilt top. Then worked diagonally across the quilt through the centre of each lozenge block but only working on a quarter of the quilt from the centre out. I hope that makes sense. Starting in the centre reduces the possibility of distorting the which can lead to stretching or puckering.

I slowly worked through the quilt concentrating mostly on one quarter at a time and then going back to repeat the straight line quilting on the opposite diagonal. I used the lozenge blocks within the quilt as the guide to the straight line quilting. I’m not saying it’s perfect but overall I think the result is good. (The quilt could be marked with a disappearing marker or tailors chalk if preferred.)

This was certainly quite an efficient way to finish the quilt. I was happy with the result and there was no puckering either on top or on the reverse side of the quilt.

Plaid Lozenges Quilt Completed

The nice thing is, I was able to give it away to the intended recipient in time for a birthday. He was very happy with the finished product.

Here is the completed quilt. It took a couple of afternoons on the machine and it was ready for binding,

I have started to quilt another in the same manner. That’s a couple of quilts reduced from my pile. I hope this was helpful.

If you enjoyed this post, you may also like some of these free motion quilting posts.

Quilting Dahlias

Quilting Folk Art Roses Free Motion Treadle

Quilting Nasturtiums – Free Motion – Singer 201K Treadle

Happy stitching as always,

Susie

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