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I noticed today there is only one post. So here is my work. Fun little blocks.
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Please inform if there are any instructions for the outer border . It uses the template B from the Centre block, but what...
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Your color choices are great, and your quilting is beautifully done.
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Beautiful work Helen!
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This is absolutely beautiful! Congrats on a wonderful job!
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Finished quilting yesterday! This was my first time to use spray baste. I sprayed each layer outside and then assembled...
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So Sorry! I accidentally deleted my last post trying to edit and re-add a smaller photo so it would show up, which also...
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Hi Barbara, I’m just wondering if the running stitch around the appliqué flowers stitched prior to quilting or is it...
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I think because 80% of the pattern was revealed in the first 4 months these last months feel like they are very slow. Agreed...
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Hey Ricky, I'm making a quilt that is based on hawaiian applique (a cousin to your work on here), but I've been able to use SO many of your techniques to help me along the way. Instead of one huge design, I've created several huge pattern pieces that will get machine appliqued together and that's where my problems have set in! I've used one pattern piece to help me line up another pattern piece and then blanket stitched it down. However, it seems as though the whole piece shifted over a little bit during the sewing process & now things don't line up correctly any more! Yikes! I think I can save it by cutting the next piece a little larger and fudging the edges, but has anything like this ever happened to you? I bought some Roxanne's glue baste now for my even larger, more unwieldy pieces, so hopefully that will help and things won't get all helter skelter! I wish my imagination and technical skill could get on the same page!!ops:
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Ricky I just bought my first Rhapsody Quilt book by you. I can not believe I haven't come across this before. I can't wait to get started. I just started quilting again so be prepared for quite a few questions and thanks for all the great colorful ideas. By the way I will admit I went out today looking for one of these books. Simply because of this website and the fact that I did not know what a Rhapsody quilt was. Although I did admire them when I seen them other peoples sites. Well sew long Rachel
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Originally posted by elsielf'Nother question for Ricky. When are you going to again have the Convergence pattern for sale? I know a shop that wants to carry it.
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O.K. Ricky, You've got me hooked!!! I started looking at your Rhapsody videos about the first of this year. It was interesting because that is the way we used to make certain patterns for painting. I made a couple of drawings then went on vacation. I just started looking again lately. I am getting all fired up to make one.
I don't know which pattern I will make (I've made more) but I know that I would like to include some of my painted fabric. Maybe instead of the appliques? or maybe just the background fabric? or? Any suggestions??
I have painted for about 40 years and sewn since I was 12. I am new to quilting and I am now painting fabric, painting decorative patterns on it, teaching it and sewing it up!! I'm having lots of enjoyment in my retirement!!
Thanks for everything, Carolyn
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I just purchased your Rhapsody book and I've followed the thread on copyright. I want to start a quilt with my stash of hand dyed fabrics. What do you think about either making a quilt just like one of yours in the book or making one that is inspired but similar to one of your designs? I really don't want to do the wrong thing.
Gail
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Originally posted by SpitfireKaren, I feel your pain about throwing out your little bits of fabric. I have an idea - but keep in mind that I've never actually DONE this, so anyone else out there let me know if this won't work. I would cut them into even smaller pieces, sort them by color, draw a simple landscape (or whatever floats your boat) on muslin and then fill in areas with colored bits of fused fabric. Since Steam-A-Steam is sticky, you should be able to move bits around until you get them where you want them (but try not to think about it too hard). In the end, you'd have a Monet-esque artsy quilt. Then the quilting could just be free-motion all over the place - since it'd be a wall hanging, you wouldn't have to stitch down every single raw edge. How does that sound? I've actually thought of doing this with those little bitty corners that you cut off of stitched triangle squares (instead of fusing, I would overlay with some tulle and stitch down) - those little bits just look so pretty in my trash bowl... but I haven't brought myself to being THAT crazy yet... I think... :lol:
Tina, in a cold, rainy Arlington, Wa
Anne in Vancouver, Canada
in Vancouver, Canada
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Ricky, why do you use a dry iron to fuse the Steam-a-Seam 2 to the fabric?
I've never been able to find anything on the label that says whether to use a steam iron or a dry iron. It seems kind of strange to me to use steam if you're using an applique pressing sheet, because the steam won't go through it. On the other hand, they do call it STEAM-a-Seam, so I assume that's what the manufacturer intends us to use.
Any advice about this?
Anne in Vancouver, Canada
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When it comes to fusable web there are different kinds out there, some want steam and some dont :wink: . Steam-A-Seam wants steam so do not use an applique pressing sheet
All those little pieces of fabric are GOLD to me. I cut any left over to max wide strips...and I do collect 2 1/2" squares, 4 1/2" sq and 5" sq (for making half sq triangeles...square down to 4 1/2"). One of these days I will have enough scrap pieses to make a quilt...like the one Ricky have posted under "Projects".
Smaller and odd pieces I save for applique :shock:
in Vancouver, Canada
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Originally posted by keeperRicky,
I LOVE your rhapsody quilts, and am in the midst of creating my own. Your rhapsody book and videos are excellent, but I definitely have some "questions for Ricky"!
1. I have been practicing "set-in curved corners" (page 64 of your book) and "curved piecing and set-in corners", but am still inconsistent in achieving precise points, without fraying or puckers. I believe I am clipping just a hair beyond the stay stitching, but I am still a bit confused how to sew the points accurately. I would really appreciate some extra visuals that explain how to "Stitch toward the corner across the snip and catch one thread of curved L fabric". Could you include an explanation in the video blog, with really good close-ups while actually sewing those points? That would be so helpful to me!
2. I really like how Steam-a-Seam2 works for the rhapsody appliques---this is the first I have used that product. I ordered it on-line, but unfortunately the company folded it up and mailed it in a small soft mailer, so it was horribly crumpled when I got it. Do you have any suggestions on flattening it?---my attempts were only minimally successful. Can you recommend a reputable source for ordering Steam-a-Seam2 so I don't run into this problem again?
3. I am using your Art Studio Colors for the applique, with The Bottom Line in the bobbin. I would like to quilt it using your Art Studio Colors as well. Would I also use The Bottom Line in the bobbin for free motion quilting (using a Bernina), or a different weight thread?
4. Will you ever teach your technique for dying fabrics?
Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to answer my questions! We are SO VERY LUCKY to have YOU, and TQS!!! I love it all!
Judy in Alabama
in Vancouver, Canada
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I noticed today there is only one post. So here is my work. Fun little blocks.
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Please inform if there are any instructions for the outer border . It uses the template B from the Centre block, but what...
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Your color choices are great, and your quilting is beautifully done.
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Beautiful work Helen!
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This is absolutely beautiful! Congrats on a wonderful job!
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Finished quilting yesterday! This was my first time to use spray baste. I sprayed each layer outside and then assembled...
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So Sorry! I accidentally deleted my last post trying to edit and re-add a smaller photo so it would show up, which also...
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Hi Barbara, I’m just wondering if the running stitch around the appliqué flowers stitched prior to quilting or is it...
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I think because 80% of the pattern was revealed in the first 4 months these last months feel like they are very slow. Agreed...
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Done for now
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Photo is too big. There is a post at the top of the 2024 BOM forum with help for posting photos
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I tried to attach a picture under show your progress and it showed that I attached it but didn’t show up in my post only...
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I finished my top by looking at the photo of the quilt and since there are no quilt police it doesn’t matter if it doesn’t...
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