Stitching in the Barn

 I got the Westalee Design Sew Steady Starter Kit for my birthday with an Amazon gift card. It comes with a simple straight/curve ruler and a ruler foot. It was a little difficult to find the right set because I wanted it for my Singer Rocketeer that needs a Singer slant shank. There was one listing so I ordered it. I was happy to see pictures of my Rocketeer's cousin in the leaflet that came with the set.  You have to get the right foot for your machine.  Fortunately, Angela Walters has videos on ruler quilting, you can find them here . I got the foot adjusted correctly and went for it reusing a piece of previously quilted fabric.  I drew on a 6.5 inch square. I went straight for the awesome looking one and skipped the straight lines except for the border outline. I hope you can tell from the free motion quilting in the light green that I already have some skill at that, that's why I jumped to the fun stuff. This is another 6.5 inch drawn square. I skipped the borde...

 Piecing the Rock Candy Table Topper video is here . I loved this. It went together super fast. This one glows! I have to put aside Journey2Nebula to finish a Christmas quilt. I also just tried out ruler quilting on my home machine. I got the kit for my birthday. More on that later. Happy Quilting!

I cut these as I cut extra pieces for Jawbreaker from the previous post. I love the pattern Rock Candy so I couldn't wait to get started. The video for cutting Rock Candy is here .  The pieces are cut but I still need to trim the points. I have these templates so I used them to trim. I can't wait to sew these together!

School and life got intense so I had to put sewing aside 😢 I'm back in the saddle and I cut more Jawbreaker pieces and laid them out. You Tube video for Jawbreaker is here . This is not the direction in the pattern or video. This is my piece after sewing the rows.   The top sewn together.   It looked so weird with the jagged edges that I wasn't afraid to trim it. The trimmed top.  I might trim it some more because this was just making it square. I've got a couple of weird bits where I was planning on trimming it more. It might also stay unique. This came out way better than I expected! The next one is already cut out and I'm trimming the tips.