A few weeks ago I made a 10″ magic fairy door and I used the block to make a 14″ pillowcase. The quilting process started having a mind of its own and I was happy to oblige.

My original idea was to hand quilt everything.  There was one problem –  my stitches are still in the medium size range and the leaves looked horrible and clunky instead of small and delicate.  I have done free motion quilting only once and that was probably a couple of years ago.  So I took a deep breath, removed the little hand quilting I had done and started free motion quilting the vines and the leaves.  As usual, my fear proved unjustified.  Since I can adjust the speed of the pedal of my machine, it went rather smoothly.  I am happy with the way the quilting turned out, even with the smattering of imperfections here and there.

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