June's FMQ challenge by Cindy Needham

This month's teacher was Cindy Needham.   Cindy's tutorial covered her favourite quilting tools, tips on thread ends,  listening to the hum-purr of your sewing machine to find your optimal quilting speed (rhythm) and practicing fill designs using repeating lines, circles and curves. 

This is my doodle art on paper.  

I used Gutermann 100% cotton variegated thread and Schmetz 90/14 universal needle.

This was quilted on my Pfaff Creative 2 sewing machine using the Dynamic 6 Free Motion Foot.

This is the back side before I filled in the leaf and oval.

Doodle art with a sewing machine.

 The quilt was not marked, which gives it a very organic look. I'm also quilting a girl sitting in the yoga lotus position.

It was fun filling in the larger shapes.  Usually I sew utilitarian quilts for beds, babies and Alzheimer's touch quilts.  I have never made a whole cloth quilt to  showcase the quilting. 

Perhaps I will now.  Thanks Cindy for sharing your quilting skills with us.