Surprisingly I have not made many samples to practice machine quilting on. Most of the time I just dive right in and start working directly on my project.
I get a lot of anxiety about quilting which in turn causes me to procrastinate when it is time to put a needle through a project.
I avoid my studio.
I walk in and out and in and out and I find a million other things to do before I sit down and work.
This time I made a sample to practice on
I have four and a half sections to figure out how to stitch the needles on this tree. I know many of your are thinking, duh.. But, stopping to start something new - even a small sample - can be a slippery slope for an artist. It can easily sidetrack me. I intentionally used fabrics that don’t excite me to help alleviate the possibility of this problem. (Admittedly I did start thinking about what I could do with this small sample - when I finish with the project of course.)
It took about two hours to make. While working on it I refined my stitches and got the practice runs out the way.
