Embroidered Collage

At this month's meeting of The Fiber Alliance one of our members, Carol Singer, who quilts and teaches as her career, taught a class on free motion machine quilting using a darning foot and feed dogs down.  I had so much FUN moving the fabric around under the needle to create patterns and that pettable quilted texture.  We covered how to think about needle and thread choices and the importance of thinking ahead with many of the designs, in order to avoid being painted into a corner.  I was able to get reasonably even stitches by the end of the class but need to practice on my own machine (Carol let me use hers) and go a bit slower in order to get really good looking ones.  I also need to go buy a darning foot.  I've posted pics of my five sample quilt sandwiches done during class.