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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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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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Angela, You can find them here under learn, Pick a Petal, but I find them by doing a Google Search The Quilt Show You...
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Home from the Maine Quilts show where my Color my World quilt, rename ‘Home,’ received 3 ribbons. I’m overwhelmed...
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BJ there is no such thing as cheating - just freedom of expression!
Renata your log cabin block is beautiful. I really love your fabrics. And yes that is a blue sky behind the quilt. We have had a heat wave here for the last week or so - very pleasant weather, finally. :roll:
Thanks everybody for the kind and encouraging comments.
And Rosemary, I don't think your wish is going to be granted about help with the quilting part. Seems like the buck is being passed to Patsy Thompson. I have found it very useful to look at all the TQS and Youtube tutorials I can find on FMQ for domestic machines but also for long-arm machines. I think the long-arm quilters have the continuous line quilting pretty well sorted. And then the other thing I do is I use up all the kids old copy books just practicing drawing continuous line ideas. Good luck with quilting your Too Loud/Dog Rose 1, can't wait to see what you do with it.
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Thanks for the comments! I'm ready to do sashing and see how it all hangs together. Coni, the surprise fabric in the log cabin is the innermost light row that touches on the center square. It's a SewBatik metallic and while it looks goldish yellow, when placed beside the pink it picks up some rosy undertones. That color was nowhere in the sampler, just like the blue with purplish undertones in the dark outermost square, but I though toned down the magenta-like purple that was also used for the sawtooth star block. The blue fabric was a SewBatik scrap.
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Rosemary -
Yep, designing continuous line patterns is an art in and of itself. How far you go with that depends on how important your design is to you. You can do any hand quilting design by machine, you just might have to do a lot of backtracking and a lot of starts and stops. When I quilted Jayhawks on a quilt (you can do a web search on "jayhawk" to see what that looks like), I wanted the Jayhawks to be just like the true image so I downloaded a "coloring book" image and traced around it, doing whatever backtracking was necessary. I looked for a path that would have the least backtracking, which ended up being starting where the head meet the body and doing the body, then going around the head. This image is pretty much all connected so I was able to do it with just 2 starts and stops, if I remember right.
If the exact lines in the motif are less important, you can start adding, removing and moving lines to make it more continuous. What I found helped me to visualize how to make a motif continuous was looking at the paths given for continuous line quilting stencils and for continuous motifs in books. There are tricks you can do where, depending on how your motif looks, you can divide it into an inside and outside line, start where these meet and then do the inside and move to the outside. One particular author/teacher who I've found useful in learning to visualize this is Pam Clark. She specializes in quilting blocks and sashing at the same time by following paths around the quilt that allow her to hit everything and fill in the insides when she gets to them. I don't know how to describe this in words, but I think it's worth looking for her stuff.
Hope this is a little bit helpful!
Nancy
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And she was a guest in show no 912.
Thanks for the heads up on her, Nancy, a good reminder. I guess what I am really after is to see different ideas of how to approach designing the quilting to fit the piecing - there is so much information available for piecing, blocks,colour theory, applique..... but it is much harder to find information about how to go about designing the quilting side of things :evil: - ok rant over. But boy am I glad that I watched the latest show, with Ricky's top 5 machining tips, the one for cutting the thread has been a sanity saver today, as I am starting & stopping all over the place (sigh), still love the design, but it is a heavy old blanket to push & pull about :roll:
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Sorry for the simple question (I know, there is no stupid question...), but I want to get this right--not quilt police-fearing right, but easier to sew and not distort right: to put on the 6 1/2" sashing, is it better to but the sashing on top of the block when sewing or better to but the block on top? How about for the long horizontal sashing? Ready to sash...
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Good question, Renata. I'll wait to hear from some of our experts before I do my sashing, too.
I didn't sew today, but I've been organising and sorting and cleaning my sewing room. :roll: Quite the challenge! I forgot I have fabric with little light bulbs :idea: :idea: on it...I think I used it for an eye spy quilt. But you, know, the light bulbs these days aren't the same. Today's ones are all twirly. The next generation of kids won't know what an 'old fashioned' light bulb looks like. Kinda like a recent "what does " Winding your watch mean?" - or 'What's an iron" as we've discussed. LOL
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I sew with sashing on top if the seams all go one way otherwise with the seams on top so I can make sure they don't get caught up. This isn't an answer by someone who knows
I'm cutting my sashing and finding it very stressfull in case my calculations are wrong. Too late now my fabric is all in bits :shock:
Mug rugger and lounge lizard
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Grazie, Rita e Wendy! I pressed my fabric, cut all my sashing, sat at the machine, ready to go and then thought: sashing... on the top or the bottom?... and was stumped, especially since with the log cabin, the squares were on top of the strips... Back to sewing! Thanks for the quick reply!
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Hi Rosemary - A good place to learn about how to quilt your quilt is http://mqresource.com. This Web site is a resource for professional longarmers, although anyone can follow and post. They have one forum called "Design Help Needed" where people post a finished quilt top and ask for advice on how to quilt it. You can learn a lot from these guys! They also have a "The Final Product" forum where people show what they've done and take close-up pictures of the quilting. Margo suggested this site on some forum months ago and I've been lurking there ever since.
Nancy
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Hi Renata - In general, if you need to ease one side when piecing two things together, the longer piece should go on the bottom so that the feed dogs can help you ease it in. With your dual feed system, this may not make a difference. And if your cutting and piecing are perfect, again it won't make a difference. Unless there is a good reason to go the other way, I sew the sashing on with the sashing on top since the sashing is usually narrower than the blocks and I feel like I'm less likely to have the pieces slip at all when I can see more of each piece. I also sew log cabin blocks with the log on top since I precut my logs. Laura did it the other way because she cuts her logs after sewing so it's easier to have that long piece of fabric on the bottom and keep adding blocks on the top. That's my opinion....
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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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