Carole, Your kona solids will make a beautiful quilt. Not sure if I am going to join in on this project
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Gayle, Love your bird version of the magic garden. Your stitching looks great. the beads on the edge
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I finished my magic garden. This was not my usual colour palette and I am not fond of gnomes so I took creative license...
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Just lovely! I like your flowers too. They fill up the background nicely.
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Beatuiful choices of colors. Fun and whimsical. Nicely done!
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Really fun embroidery choices. It looks great!
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I LOVE the black additions to your piecing. They really attract attention and look great.
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I still have many fans to finish as I’m hand piecing the outside curve. My preference is appliqué and embroidery. For...
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Helen, Thank you so much for your ideas! You have great EQ8 skills! I have 2 Becky Goldsmith books that I have been using...
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Nice work ! Can I ask, did you use stem stitch on the bluebells ? Or have you whip stitched over a back stitch?
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Not a question, but wanted to share the Kona solids I picked out today for the summer version. Excited to start work on...
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I did not use a stabilizer, nor a hoop. Just be cognizant of the tension of your stitches.
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Hello Barbara, I haven't heard nor noticed a stabilizer mentioned in the instructions. I have done wool embroidery but...
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Hmm.... Interesting question. From garment construction days I seem to recall recommendations that pattern pieces be pinned to fabric within the seam allowances for fear pin hole marks would remain. I have no experience basting silk quilts but my answer to, "How do you baste a silk quilt?", my answer would be - very carefully. Spray adhesive would leave no pin holes but I am not sure I'd want that in the quilt. I am curous too!
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You don't really have to be afraid of silk. It's a wonderfully responsive natural fiber and a light steaming will remove any holes left by needles and threads (you may wish to rub your finger across the holes a little. Here's a method Sharon Schamber uses to baste quilts that would work well with silk, I think, though I use a smaller stitch than she does and a lighter basting thread, which is a cotton thread that isn't as refined as others and has an ability to catch the fabric and hold it in place. She calls it a "herringbone" stitch, though I knew it as "pad stitching" in tailoring.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNy...feature=relmfu
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_EjB...feature=relmfu
"Neglect not the gift that is within you..." -1 Timothy 4:14
Betty Jo
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Periodically I will pull out some of my older quilt magazines just to see if there is an idea waiting there for me. I don't know if this issue is still available or not but in the Quilters Newsletter, December 2000/Nol. 328, there is a great article on quilting with silk. It basically covers everything you want/need to know about working with silk, ie: Dispelling myths, prewashing, ironing silk, "to fuse or not to fuse", cutting and tearing silk, needles and pins, silk thread, marking, batting, quilting and finally caring for silk quilts. The article was adapted from "Silk Quilts: From the Silk Road to the Quilter's Studio", by Hanne Vibeke de Koning-Stapel, copyright 2000, published by The Quilt Digest Press. I hope this helps and that the magazine is still available.
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Carole, Your kona solids will make a beautiful quilt. Not sure if I am going to join in on this project
or not. If... -
Gayle, Love your bird version of the magic garden. Your stitching looks great. the beads on the edge
with the blanket... -
I'm not sure if I will add anymore embroidery....
-
I finished my magic garden. This was not my usual colour palette and I am not fond of gnomes so I took creative license...
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Just lovely! I like your flowers too. They fill up the background nicely.
-
Beatuiful choices of colors. Fun and whimsical. Nicely done!
-
Really fun embroidery choices. It looks great!
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I LOVE the black additions to your piecing. They really attract attention and look great.
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I still have many fans to finish as I’m hand piecing the outside curve. My preference is appliqué and embroidery. For...
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Helen, Thank you so much for your ideas! You have great EQ8 skills! I have 2 Becky Goldsmith books that I have been using...
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Nice work ! Can I ask, did you use stem stitch on the bluebells ? Or have you whip stitched over a back stitch?
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Not a question, but wanted to share the Kona solids I picked out today for the summer version. Excited to start work on...
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