machinepieced and machinequilted
December 2001
Size: 69" x 77"

I received most of the houses - alltogether 24 blocks - through a swap:

Sabine Gomez-Ortega Rodriguez	Andrea Schwenk	Corinna Beuermann-Kulp	Leila Schliephake
Nicole Lauf	Nicole Probst	Susanne Noß	Susanne Noß
Martina De Wille	Julia Schneider	Leila Schliephake	Britta Mehring
Michaela Hartmann	Karin Höft	Jadranka Meins	Gabi Girndt
Corinna Beuermann-Kulp	Gabi Girndt	Jadranka Meins	Susanne Noß
Susanne Breidsprecher	Annette Müller	Karin Höft	Beate Dietrich-Hannen

My housequilt is machinequilted with "Cotty 30"-thread. All patterns on my housequilt are free motion quilted. The feed dogs of the sewing machine were lowered and the quilt was moved under the needle so you can "paint" your pattern.

I chose the color of the quilting-thread matching the fabric color; so partly the quilting on the photos is hard to see. It will become better if you enlarge the pictures by clicking on them.

On sparse patterned fabrics I quilted leaf- or flowerpatterns.

The sky was quilted with clouds all over.

Around the houses and other sewn motivs I did outline quilting.

On intensly patterned fabrics I outlined the pattern with quilting.

Or I did both: outline quilting around the butterflys and free motion quilted grass in the background.

All you can draw with a continuous line you can use for machinequilting. I practise my patterns on a sheet of paper. For I wanted to try so many different patterns in this housequilt, I made a plan on which background what pattern in which color should be quilted.