I woke up this morning with quilting on my mind. I've NEVER attempted to quilt a spiral (as you know from my previous posts that I'm NOT a quilter) but I decided to give it a go. I use scrap blocks to practice on from time to time and this one with the solid back seemed like the perfect one to showcase all my mistakes. I put the walking foot, drew a starting spiral, set the stitch to 1, turned the speed dial on Juju to turtle, took a deep breath, and put the pedal down! At about the 6th rotation I increased speed a little and also increased the stitch length to 2.2. I used the left side of the walking foot as a guide and spiraled on. Keep Calm and Spiral On! 
I stopped when I hit the edges and with the idea that I was going to see so many goofs, I flipped it over. WOW! I was so surprised to see that it was (fairly) even! I'm going to give 90% of the credit to Juju and 10% to me for even trying to do this. lol With practice I will get the spacing more even but I am so thrilled with this first ever attempt.
If any of you have tips and tricks for quilting spirals...I'm all ears! I feel like I just took my (limited) quilting to a new level.
first spiral attempt.jpg spiral front.jpg

I stopped when I hit the edges and with the idea that I was going to see so many goofs, I flipped it over. WOW! I was so surprised to see that it was (fairly) even! I'm going to give 90% of the credit to Juju and 10% to me for even trying to do this. lol With practice I will get the spacing more even but I am so thrilled with this first ever attempt.
If any of you have tips and tricks for quilting spirals...I'm all ears! I feel like I just took my (limited) quilting to a new level.

first spiral attempt.jpg spiral front.jpg
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