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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Very pretty scrappy blocks, Marianne! Love the fact that you are experimenting with all sorts of ways of handling fabric and assembling blocks. It's a great time to do this. As for the skipped stitches, my experience has been that stitches start skipping when my needle gets dull. In my case, I hear a light popping sound as the needle penetrates the fabric. Then I know for sure that I need to change the needle. Not sure what else can cause stitches to skip but I cannot imagine it being the starch, it's never happened to me. I'm sure you'll hear from others with a better answer than mine and I look forward to reading those posts too!
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As Renata says, skipped stitches is most likely to be a blunt needle & it is time to change it. If it is still skipping I would suggest totally rethreading the machine top & bottom. I doubt it is the starch (unless it is thick enough to stand up by itself :wink: )
The most usual time I have trouble with skipped stitches is when hemming jeans and I am going over the really thick side seams, so that the pressure foot isn't on a level amount of cloth.
By the way, if you haven't looked before, over at Superior Threads website I am pretty sure that there are lots of useful tips about threads & needles and what might be causing problems to what.
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Thank you, Nancy! Scrappy quilts have become my favourites after I watched the show with the lady who inspired the HST exchange.
Rosemary and Renata, thank you for your tips. The reason I asked was that I didn't get skipped stitches on the blocks that contained non-starched fabric. I did some chain piecing and I had to frog stitch quite a few blocks afterwards several of which were the starched ones (and a few of the others too :wink: ) which is why I noticed the difference between the fabrics. I went back and checked the 9 patch blocks I made and they were the same. I just didn't notice it last week.
I will try a larger needle for the next blocks and see if the same is the case. For all of these I have used a # 60 Universal needle. I will try a 70 for the QSTs.
Marianne
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Well, here is my first weeks blocks, which I finished last night, so I was only one week behind for all of 12 hours :P
I've gone for the full size quilt, and only have the orange centres because I was running out of the yellow - but I would have had problems of running out which ever colour I had used - kept thinking about fried eggs whist I was making them :lol:
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I do hope that ideas of how to quilt this sampler are going to be included, because that is quite often where these things fall down - or so I have heard - 'quilt as desired' is not much help for the beginner.
Worked on my pinwheels today/this evening, they have come out pretty spiffing, but my maths/reading could do with some workops: I managed to get twice as many hst's than needed :roll: (picture will come in daylight)
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This week (Lesson 3: Quarter-Square Triangles) there seems to be a bit of a disconnect and I, for one, need a little more guidance. In the handout, under the heading “Sewing”, #2., Laura says to press the seams open. In the video, she presses them to the side. In #3., she does not say which way to press the sides at all and does not show it in the video either when assembling the four sets together to make the final block. I don't know whether to press seams toward the dark or open, and when! :? Am I just interpreting the instructions wrong?
I've sent an email to Laura asking for clarification, but, not knowing what her schedule is, I might not get a timely reply and I am so close to finished, I really don't want to delay, even though I still hope to hear from her.
Can anyone who is participating in this classroom clarify the direction of pressing in each step for me? I'd be most appreciative. Oh Margo!!! Help!!! Are you out there?... :?
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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....
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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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