Sharon Schamber's Video for Designing Quilting

[Dawn S.]

Unstitching, Margo? Why, I thought I'd just use Alex's stitch eraser! (I can't believe I was actually buying into that whole thing! The problem is,I was reading it around April 3rd and it just didn't register! Did I ever feel stupid!)

Thanks for the tip about stitching a sample first! Excellent idea!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

[Dawn S.]

Great work, I watched this last week and cannot stop designing, I am now onto my 6th whole cloth design and have also used the technique to design some quilting for on a Baltimore that I have to quilt next.
Jeannette

[Nancy H.]

Ladies, if anyone is interested I was looking at Purple Daisies website (Sharon's daughter's site) and they have under "Featured DVD Bundles" the set of (3) DVD's for $36.95. They are the same that is featured on TQS. The website is: http://www.purpledaisiesllc.com/The_...ndle_p/tqs.htm

[Dawn S.]

Ladies, if anyone is interested I was looking at Purple Daisies website (Sharon's daughter's site) and they have under "Featured DVD Bundles" the set of (3) DVD's for $36.95. They are the same that is featured on TQS. The website is: http://www.purpledaisiesllc.com/The_...ndle_p/tqs.htm

Thank you so much for the heads-up on this! What a great deal! I paid $15 for each DVD of hers at Festival.

Now...................I have finished my design, had it blown up a bit, copied 8 times, and have it put together. It totally amazes me that I drew this! It is 20" x 20" and will be finished off with a (Sharon Schamber's) corded binding! At least, that's the plan!







I'm still not sure how to get this drawing onto freezer paper! I will go back over the previuos posts and see if I can figure it out! There is no way I am going to draw/trace this thing TWICE! I know I must have missed something somewhere. ops:

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana

[Nancy H.]

Dawn, your drawing is spectacular. I truly hope you do get it transferred to fabric. Love to see the finished quilt. Let us know how you get it transferred. So much talent out there. Wow!!!

[Margo C.]

Dawn, that part of her instructions are fuzzy, but I think that you are, in fact, supposed to trace it all off onto freezer paper and trace it yet again onto your fabric.

Have fun!

[Nancy R.]

I agree with Margo. That's the way I understood it. And if you think about Sharon, she's a very meticulous person so wouldn't be adverse to redrawing many times to get the result that she wants. Might be one of the reasons that she wins all of the awards! The tedious work definitely doesn't bother her and her attention to detail is out of this world!

Your design is beautiful and I can't wait to see it in thread!

Nancy

[E.M. T.]

You can get freezer paper in printable-size sheets....It would be fussy...but you could print and put together.
For me..beats hand drawing something so detailed ! :roll:

[Betty J.]

Thanks Margo...but what about getting the image from the photocopy to the freezer paper? Is it another lightbox job?

Rita, That's how I do it. Another method I have used successfully is to scan it in and use printable freezer paper. Now I take my enlarged design and print it into segments of freezer paper that I iron together with strips of freezer paper if they don't overlap enough. If you have either Microsoft Office Excel Spreadsheets, or one of the Corel Draw, these will divide your enlarged designs into the proper sized segments. I think that spreadsheets designed for Macs might also work, but I have a pc and haven't tried it.

[Renata L.]

I agree with Nancy and Margo--that is how I interpreted Sharon Schamber--draw and redraw... Dawn, your design is beautiful--I look forward to seeing it quilted. However, if you are interested in printable-size freezer paper sheets that are usually a little thicker than regular freezer paper, you might want to look at http://www.cjenkinscompany.com/Freez...apersheets.htm for different sizes/quantities at a good price.

[Betty J.]

Dawn, your design is fabulous!

[Lois B.]

I know its tedious and I am probably not going to do a wholecloth quilt like this but I do believe that tracing builds skill and helps the final stitching be more perfect. It might be how Sharon has gotten so good at what she does.

[Nancy H.]

Another alternative to transferring might be to use an overhead projector to transfer the design onto your fabric, might eliminate the necessity of transferring it to freezer paper. If I'm not mistaken I believe that is the way Ricky created his Rhapsody quilt.

[Rita C.]

Dawn your design is so beautiful! I wonder would it work to iron the roll of freezer paper directly on top of the finished pattern and then redraw it? You would probably have to connect two widths because the freezer paper roll is only 16" wide or something like that. It would stop it from slipping when you are trying to trace the design onto the freezer paper and you would then have a tougher template to put under the fabric for the final tracing onto the fabric. Or am I making this more complicated than it needs to be? I think I need to go watch it again. :roll:

[Dawn S.]

I agree with Nancy and Margo--that is how I interpreted Sharon Schamber--draw and redraw... Dawn, your design is beautiful--I look forward to seeing it quilted. However, if you are interested in printable-size freezer paper sheets that are usually a little thicker than regular freezer paper, you might want to look at http://www.cjenkinscompany.com/Freez...apersheets.htm for different sizes/quantities at a good price.

Thanks for the information! I had to laugh at the site, though, as my daughter is a C Jenkins! I guess I won't be forgetting that site's name! Anyway, I was probably headed in that direction, just didn't know about the heavier, precut freezer paper. Very cool! This method would be soooooooo much easier!

That being said, if I did the light box method to get the design onto the freezer paper, this would give me the opportunity to clean up some rough areas, before going to cloth. I'm just afraid that if I have to trace it twice, I will lose interest, and it will be yet another incomplete project calling to me for the next two or three years!

Thank you for your wonderful comments!

Dawn
In beautiful Northwest Montana