Thanks so much for all the lovely comments on the Back to Amsterdam quilt. I can’t tell you how much time I spent fretting over various little bits of that quilt, so it’s great to have so many people say they like it and even that I should enter it in a quilt show! Wow! That’ll boost a gal’s ego.

At a sewing class the other night I noticed how much fun everyone was having checking out everyone else’s set up and all the little gadgets that other people couldn’t live without. I decided that some people might enjoy seeing how I have my space set up for quilting, and since I was working on the free motion quilting for the Plain Spoken quilt, I thought it was the perfect time to snap a few photos and maybe even try out the video function on my Canon G10.

This is exactly what my sewing space looked like, mid-quilting.

That hump I have in the quilt is there intentionally. Once the quilt gets past a certain point where it becomes hard to move it because of the weight on that side, I scrunch it up to make a hump. This really helps, because now as you sew you are only moving the fabric in front of the hump.

I thought this might be a bit hard to explain, so I made a little video (and got to learn a bit about iMovie at the same time – fun!). If you think the yellow squirt bottle on the shelf looks particularly bright, it’s because I accidentally shot this in color accent mode, which kind of grays out most things and brightens the colors on certain objects. At any rate, I think you can see how only the fabric on the front side of the hump moves as I quilt. (The video is 1:21.)

In case someone is interested, the table is available here. I totally love mine!