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Free Motion Quilting

i finally have had time to sit down and practice my  free motion quilting  (FMQ) what with being on holidays, both from work and my sewing machine which was a little hard considering i was reading, every article,  book and blog post i could find,  thank goodness for my iPhone and gadgets iPad LOL so i started off with  Leah Day's FMQ projects so this is week one "Let's wiggle" this was fun and i seemed to cope pretty well (sorry the photo's are a bit dark ,  the weather is not playing fair) this one required a little more thought...and slowed me down I had a bit of trouble with travelling too far and being forced to stop,  this time it ended up at the at the top of the first one and ended up resulting in a bit of a sharp corner, then i had a bit of a problem with speed and stitch length this one was fun my top loops were a little wonky, i think i need to retry this one my lobster