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've been working here and there back on week three. :shock: Oh well, perhaps I'll get caught up before the end of the classes, but it doesn't look promising.Tomorrow is out because I've just arranged to have my grandson spend his after school time on Thursdays with me to work on crafty things.
And so I'll do a little cleaning and organizing for that in the morning. But I'll spend Friday all day in my studio. I'm making a new tote bag to take with me to the quilt show in Phily plus a few other preparations for that. But it's all so much more fun than I was having this time last year when I was still working at my old job. :lol:
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Originally posted by RenataOriginally posted by PosyPJust don't drink all the limoncello before you get stitching :wink:
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Originally posted by loise98Originally posted by ritzyLois, I might be missing something, but if you turn the block that is on the right side in the picture, one quarter turn--wouldn't it be laid out the same as the block on the left?
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Ok, my grandson is making a small boat using Duck tape (as opposed to duct tape), so I snuck off to work on those week three blocks. I am CLEARLY not cut out to be a traditional quilter. They are pretty, but NONE of the centers line up precisely. Now I ask you...why doesn't this work for me? I cut it right, I stitched it carefully, I ironed it carefully, but when it comes down to the joining the last two sets together, the centers just don't line up.ops: :shock: :x :?
Ok, so I can make a beautiful bride's dress, a man's suit, a beutifully precision quilted perspectives thread quilt, but my blocks like this don't line up. :roll: The baby that gets this will just have to like it. I'm not redoing it all. :lol: :lol: Of course, I could put some butterflies or something just there. No one would know. :lol: :lol: :lol:
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It can be very tricky. I have to pin carefully to do this and my best method is to put a pin very close to the point on each side and not remove the pins before hand guiding the sewing machine over them. I hope your big machine accepts to be hand guided. I think I have seen this demonstrated somewhere not long ago but I can't recall where it was.
I'm sure the baby will love the quilt, points meeting or not.
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Hi Betty Jo - I'm sure your blocks are better than you think (where are our pictures to admire????) and the baby will love whatever you make. Butterflies are always a useful addition!
My matches are definitely far from perfect, but what helps me most is care in the direction of my pressing so that the seams nestle into each other. I'm also a pinner. I pin wherever I want points to match and I pin at the end of the seam. I also slow down when I get to a matching point and make sure that the seam on the underside doesn't get folded the wrong way by the feed dogs. Then I make sure that the seams are still nestled and push down on the matching point with the index finger on my left hand while the pieces go under the needle to try to keep anything from shifting. And I actually do all of my piecing using my walking foot, which I think reduces the shifting caused by a normal presser foot. (I use my walking foot for pretty much everything except FMQ and piping.)
I don't know if any of this helps, but thought I'd pass it along.
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Originally posted by rehakHi Betty Jo - I'm sure your blocks are better than you think (where are our pictures to admire????) and the baby will love whatever you make. Butterflies are always a useful addition!
My matches are definitely far from perfect, but what helps me most is care in the direction of my pressing so that the seams nestle into each other. I'm also a pinner. I pin wherever I want points to match and I pin at the end of the seam. I also slow down when I get to a matching point and make sure that the seam on the underside doesn't get folded the wrong way by the feed dogs. Then I make sure that the seams are still nestled and push down on the matching point with the index finger on my left hand while the pieces go under the needle to try to keep anything from shifting. And I actually do all of my piecing using my walking foot, which I think reduces the shifting caused by a normal presser foot. (I use my walking foot for pretty much everything except FMQ and piping.)
I don't know if any of this helps, but thought I'd pass it along.
Nancy
:lol: :lol: Exactly! I do all of those too. The points match in the two-set section, very nicely. it's the central set that doesn't. butterflies! That's my answer. :lol:
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Originally posted by ZarahIt can be very tricky. I have to pin carefully to do this and my best method is to put a pin very close to the point on each side and not remove the pins before hand guiding the sewing machine over them. I hope your big machine accepts to be hand guided. I think I have seen this demonstrated somewhere not long ago but I can't recall where it was.
I'm sure the baby will love the quilt, points meeting or not.ops:
"Neglect not the gift that is within you..." -1 Timothy 4:14
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Another trick I've come across and used is to just sew across the centre point, then check if it is in the right place, if it isn't you only need to unpick 1/2" of stitching, if it is right then go back and stitch the whole seam.
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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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