"Scrapping it Up" complete

"Scrapping it Up"  54" X 57"

They say,  if you throw a stone in Minnesota you will hit a lake... 

you know, the whole 10,000 lakes thing, right?   

Well, I can safely say, if you throw a stone in Alabama, you break a Church window! 

 The common theme where I am from is every town

 has a church and a bar...I was rather surprised that every other building in

 Alabama was a church! I've never seen so many Churches in my life!

I loved it!  I wish I had counted how many I had seen!  

How do they fill all of them?  There seemed to be more churches then houses!  

Why am I telling you this?  Because as I sat down to quilt this, 

I had thoughts of doing a bunch of funky straight line quilting.  

I started doing so, and quickly realized I was struggling with the quilt.   

I used Aurifil GR 30 MT 1300 cotton thread.

The  space of JOY I was in when I created the top, was not going into the quilting... 

So I stopped. 

I sat there, and thought about the experience. How the Pettways just sat right 

down and start quilting, and breaking into gospel songs...

Church...

That is what I wanted in this quilt.

So I began with my walking foot in the lower right hand corner doing Baptist Fans.  

Seems fitting!

Then I realized the curved lines were much to perfect. 

I really wanted to keep the vibe of my expereince in this quilt so I thought,

"Can I free motion Baptist fans?"

I must be crazy.

It will either be a mess or I may learn a thing or two...

I went with the "learning a thing or two."

I left the raw fringe edges of the linen through out the quilt for texture. 

Is it perfect?  

Hardly!  

It's not a mess either!  Wahoo!

Did I wing it, 

and learn more about controlling my quilt under the freemotion foot?  

Absolutley!

Did it stay in the spirit in which it was made?

Yes indeed!

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