I've never done McTavishing on a quilt yet. I've practiced on paper and my white board.
So I'm still quilting my Mariner's compass quilt. I have all the borders, sashing and outlining around the compass done. (that was in blue thread so it matches pretty close...I spent almost all the time quilting it in the dark so I could see the stitching). I started the background today. I almost chickened out on the McTavishing...I have already done a fair amount of frog stitching before I was happy with the quilting I did on the compass (ended up just SID and had to pick out the "fancy quilting design I though would look so good-not)
so I didn't want a repeat of that. But I went ahead and tried it.
I quilted around 2 of the star points and then changed from a regular thread to Sew Fine (which I had in the bobbin anyway).
I'm pretty happy with it so far. I'm still getting the feel for the direction changes. So 1/2 a block done...24 more to go.
I came up from downstairs to get my camera to take the picture above and look what I found.
It's good to be the King.
I made my first block for the Jelly Roll Sampler Quilt Along that I joined.
I'm using an Evening Mist jelly roll and yardage from Serenity by Diawabo that I already had in the stash.
