Weekend Quilting

You know, I don't particularly enjoy the quilting part of quilting. It's definitely my least favorite part of the process. I always feel like I'm wrestling with the quilt. Like I'm trying to make it do something it doesn't want to do. It reminds me of trying to get my almost-2-year-old to sit in her high chair when she doesn't want to eat. My tops don't want to be quilted, you guys! "Now get in that sewing machine, and stay there! Allow yourself to be quilted or you're going for a time-out, young lady! Why do you have to be quilted? Because I said so!"That being said, I spent the weekend quilting my Fall Equinox top, and I'm really happy with how it turned out. It's far from perfect, but I think it's my best home-machine quilting effort to date.No, I'm still not over the wavy line quilting. : ) I really love how it softens up such a geometric design. And actually, I feel like this squiggly quilting is a baby step toward free motion quilting. Even though I was using my walking foot, I still needed to have some control over how fast I was pushing the quilt through the machine. The slower I went, the more dramatically the lines wiggled. So I think (at least, I hope) I started to get a feel for the rhythm of it, more easily recognizing when the quilt is dragging too much, etc.But don't worry, you won't see this wavy line quilting on everything I do. My machine has a lot of decorative stitches—so I have plenty of other available reasons to avoid free motion quilting for some time to come!Edited to add: This post includes an explanation of how I did the wavy line quilting (scroll to the bottom of the post). Just use your machine's wavy line decorative stitch - so simple! Love it!I'm linking up to Sew Modern Monday - go check out Megan's blog to see what everybody else is up to.