Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Leah Day's Explore Walking Foot: Pinstripe Gridlines

I picked a practice sandwich and sort of followed Leah's directions to make the pinstripe gridlines walking foot pattern.

She used 1/4 inch tape to mark the narrow strip...  I was not able to find the end of the roll of tape that my husband picked up for me last week.  So I used the walking foot itself for the 1/4 inch line, and the walking foot guide for the one inch lines.

This design took a long time to sew, and a lot of thread too!

After 39 minutes, this is what I had sewn. The bobbin ran out so it seemed a good place to stop to start dinner!



After 23 additional minutes this is what I had done:

When I removed that blue tape I was afraid I had the beginning of a little pleat, but I was extra careful and did as Leah suggested and so the piece is all flat.  Yay!

Finally after another 41 minutes I was done sewing the block.

39 + 23 + 41 = 103 minutes

It does look dazzling though doesn't it?


On the back I put the first Dresden plate that I made ages ago.  It's nice to finally have this in a piece rather than in a box!

The batting felt very firm, but perhaps it was the extra stitches in the pinstripe gridlines design rather than the wool batting. I thought wool batting was supposed to be soft.  Anyway, it makes the design stand out, so I like it!

The design was not that fun to sew, just sew a line, cut the thread and move the block to the top again.  Seems it would be difficult to do in a real quilt, but it does look nice.

A friend picked up some more batting samples for me at Quilt Con in Pasadena.  It's great that each of the pieces of batting is labeled!

I made three more practice sandwiches, so I have them ready to use when Leah posts the next designs on her website!



2 comments:

  1. It's a very good idea to use these sample batting pieces for your little sandwiches! This is a neat design and I can see that you might want to limit it to smaller spaces. So. Many. Stitches.

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    1. Yep. And so much back and forth movement. Would be too hard to do with a full sized piece... Thanks for coming by!

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