FMQ Challenge for April

April's FMQ instructor is Don Linn, aka Mr. Quilt, and he presented his technique of  drawing a quilt design on tulle and transferring that design onto the quilt.  What a fantastic way to quilt those complex designs.

I first selected the design.  I borrowed Don Linn's book Sophisticated Stitches from the library and selected the ones that looked interesting and doable for me.

 Then I transferred that design onto tulle which was inserted in an embroidery hoop.  I didn't have actual tulle.  Instead, I had some netting which seemed to work just as well.

 Then I traced the design onto my quilt fabric using the water erasable blue pen.  I used plain muslin as my practice piece.

 And off I went to the sewing machine.  In no time at all I was done quilting this design.  That was so much fun I decided to do another..and another..and, another.  I had four samples finished and put together using the Quilt As You Go Method on Leah Day's blog.

 This is the muslin side

 

This is the other blue side.

I liked that feather design so well that I decided to use that on my FMQ sampler.  I also added some echo quilting around the design.

 This is the pink side of the sampler

This is the green side

What a great way to replicate and transfer complex designs on the quilt.  Thank you, Don, for giving us this lesson.