The FMQ Challenge tutorial this month is by Wendy Sheppard.  She showed us how to do a "simple and fun" quilting motif that she likes to call the Jester's Hat.  Cute little curly-cues that somewhat resemble jester hats.  I first practiced in my drawing tablet.
I was having trouble filling in the gaps.  I'm very comfortable doing swirly-type quilting but I was trying to do jester hats.  I did a quilt sample block next.
 
That went a bit better.  Next I went to the sample quilt I'm creating with the monthly challenges.  Hard to believe we've done 8 of them already.  This is the front side.
 A variety of pink/print blocks on the front and green flannel on the back.
 
So, there's my August challenge.  The hardest part of this challenge was getting it done.  I did this this morning at 5 a.m.
  
Thank you SewCalGal and Wendy Sheppard for the opportunity to learn new free motion quilting skills.
 

 
5 comments:
I love your jester hats! I found them difficult and never got them to look the way I wanted but I got through the challenge. Yours look wonderful!
It looks great, Diane.
Your Jester's Hat looks beautiful! Good job, Diane! Thanks for stopping by my blog and commenting. Now that I have found you, I will be back. ;)
Fun Jesters Hats Diane. Difficult challenge, but I think you'll soon be doing this design on your quilts. Looking pretty good to me.
SewCalGal
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very nice smooth work
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