Good morning, and happy WIP Wednesday!
I finished my chevron baby quilt top this week, so now I'm back at it with the straight line quilting. (I marked the vertical strips with my red FriXion pen
so that I know where to turn as I'm following the angles of the herringbone pieces. I'm loving these FriXion pens for quilting! Just hit with an iron or wash the quilt to remove.)Updated to add: Since there seems to be a lot of interest in the comments about the FriXion pens, here's the full low-down on how they work and their possible problems, as far as I understand it. These pens can be removed with an iron or by washing the quilt. Ironing, however, may not completely remove the ink in all cases—some colors of the pens apparently can leave whitish marks on some colors of fabric. However, my understanding is that any "leftover" marks do come out entirely once the quilt is washed. There are also people who say that after ironing, the ink comes back if the quilt gets really cold! As bizarre as that sounds, this is a concern for me, living in Wisconsin—if I have to put a quilt in my car or something, the marks could come back. But again, supposedly this won't happen once the quilt is washed. (I haven't had the opportunity to test any of these scenarios myself, but I did a bit of research online before I used them, and this seems to be the general consensus.) So I would recommend caution with any quilt you're not planning to wash when it's complete. Always test! But if you know you'll be washing the quilt, then you're probably good to go.
Since it's a baby quilt, I want it to stay nice and soft, so I'm thinking less quilting is more on this one. We'll see what I end up with though.Hey, don't forget, my new Sparkler quilt pattern is on sale for just $3.99—that's half off! The sale ends Friday, so get it while the getting's good! You can buy it here or here.What are you working on this week? Here are the linky rules:1. Link up any post from the past week that features at least one unfinished work-in-progress (WIP).2. Somewhere in your post, you must link back here to my blog. (Or grab the WIP Wednesday button for your sidebar.)3. Comment on at least a few of the other WIP Wednesday links.
