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Anybody has the last Keepsake catalogue? there is a pattern close to the
middle of the booklet of a boyish looking quilt, with aplique trucks, and 4 patches, and larger squares, in red, green, orange, blue and red. Found it? I decided to make one like it for my friend's baby, since I visited her wish list from Babies are us and found out she was decorating with primary colours and car stuff. Of course I cannot follow patterns to the letter, so I took the general idea, made three different aplique blocks (sports car, bug, and truck) that I kind of copied from a fabric I had, and changed the colours around a bit, eg. the border is fire engine red. I used my blanket stitch in the new machine, and fusible aplique, a first for me. Top turned out pretty nice, though very different from my usual quilts. I used Hobbs 80/20 for batting, and a flannel with cars, stop signs, etc for the back. I have had it sandwiched and quilted in the ditch for a few weeks, but I need to do the free motion and stuff. They came last night for Thanksgiving but it wasn't finished, I decided cleaning the house was more important and I hate finishing quilts in a hurry anyway, so I showed it to them and told them I would visit when I am done with it. She wants to go to Babies are us with me anyway to help me shop for what I need for Sofia, now that she has seen what I already have. So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you guys do? Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) |
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You have recreated Toy Trucks on p.101 of the Holiday Update 2003
Keepsake Catalog. I see the two circles, one inside the other, in the solid square patches. The only way I would attempt to do them is to trace around a suitable sized cup or plate and then stitch on the lines. On the other hand, why not do a spiral? Using the walking foot, start in the center and stitch your way around ending in one of the corners. Use the edge of the foot to guide you, or else pencil it in and stitch on the lines. HTH Cute quilt, Marissa, hope you will share some pictures! Mickie "Dr. Quilter" wrote in message ... Anybody has the last Keepsake catalogue? there is a pattern close to the middle of the booklet of a boyish looking quilt, with aplique trucks, and 4 patches, and larger squares, in red, green, orange, blue and red. Found it? I decided to make one like it for my friend's baby, since I visited her wish list from Babies are us and found out she was decorating with primary colours and car stuff. Of course I cannot follow patterns to the letter, so I took the general idea, made three different aplique blocks (sports car, bug, and truck) that I kind of copied from a fabric I had, and changed the colours around a bit, eg. the border is fire engine red. I used my blanket stitch in the new machine, and fusible aplique, a first for me. Top turned out pretty nice, though very different from my usual quilts. I used Hobbs 80/20 for batting, and a flannel with cars, stop signs, etc for the back. I have had it sandwiched and quilted in the ditch for a few weeks, but I need to do the free motion and stuff. They came last night for Thanksgiving but it wasn't finished, I decided cleaning the house was more important and I hate finishing quilts in a hurry anyway, so I showed it to them and told them I would visit when I am done with it. She wants to go to Babies are us with me anyway to help me shop for what I need for Sofia, now that she has seen what I already have. So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you guys do? Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) |
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some different hubcap patterns perhaps?
circle with straight lines joining those circles somehow. theres gotta be heaps of those designs to view online somewhere. good luck, jeanne "Dr. Quilter" wrote... | Anybody has the last Keepsake catalogue? there is a pattern close to the | middle of the booklet of a boyish looking quilt, with aplique trucks, | and 4 patches, and larger squares, in red, green, orange, blue and red. | Found it? I decided to make one like it for my friend's baby, since I | visited her wish list from Babies are us and found out she was | decorating with primary colours and car stuff. | | Of course I cannot follow patterns to the letter, so I took the general | idea, made three different aplique blocks (sports car, bug, and truck) | that I kind of copied from a fabric I had, and changed the colours | around a bit, eg. the border is fire engine red. I used my blanket | stitch in the new machine, and fusible aplique, a first for me. Top | turned out pretty nice, though very different from my usual quilts. I | used Hobbs 80/20 for batting, and a flannel with cars, stop signs, etc | for the back. | | I have had it sandwiched and quilted in the ditch for a few weeks, but I | need to do the free motion and stuff. They came last night for | Thanksgiving but it wasn't finished, I decided cleaning the house was | more important and I hate finishing quilts in a hurry anyway, so I | showed it to them and told them I would visit when I am done with it. | She wants to go to Babies are us with me anyway to help me shop for what | I need for Sofia, now that she has seen what I already have. | | So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like | I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams | in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then | I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the | white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I | have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny | picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged | pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as | President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word | when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the | idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large | squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use | the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the | outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned | and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one | right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two | concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you | guys do? | | | | Dr. Quilter | Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens | (take the dog out before replying) | |
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Hullo Marissa
I'm glad you are not in a hurry, because you will need to do a practice square with this, to see whether you could do it on the quilt as a whole! There is a very good way of sewing beautiful, exact circles, but I have never tried it on a large quilt. Decide the radius of the circle you want (in your case this will be several, sequentially). Measure this distance from the needle. tape a drawing pin/thumb tack onto the machine (point up!!), so that the point is the desired distance from the needle. Place your quilt piece onto the point of the tack, firmly, and begin to sew, Keep moving the quilt slowly round and you have a lovely, perfect circle. You can then repeat the exercise as many times as you wish. I would start with the centre, smallest one and work your way out, rather than the other way round. Oh! I would use the walking foot. .. In article , Dr. Quilter writes snipped So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you guys do? Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Dear doctor, it will not kill you to handquilt those little circles. It
really and truly will not. You might even learn to enjoy it. I was going to suggest that wobbly circles ought to be just fine. After actually finding the quilt picture and falling in love with it, it just seems to me that the circle in a circle is great. You can mix SM and handquilting. Of course you can. Go thread a needle and give it a try. What's the worst that can happen? Polly "..Mickie Swall.." wrote in message ... You have recreated Toy Trucks on p.101 of the Holiday Update 2003 Keepsake Catalog. I see the two circles, one inside the other, in the solid square patches. The only way I would attempt to do them is to trace around a suitable sized cup or plate and then stitch on the lines. On the other hand, why not do a spiral? Using the walking foot, start in the center and stitch your way around ending in one of the corners. Use the edge of the foot to guide you, or else pencil it in and stitch on the lines. HTH Cute quilt, Marissa, hope you will share some pictures! Mickie "Dr. Quilter" wrote in message ... Anybody has the last Keepsake catalogue? there is a pattern close to the middle of the booklet of a boyish looking quilt, with aplique trucks, and 4 patches, and larger squares, in red, green, orange, blue and red. Found it? I decided to make one like it for my friend's baby, since I visited her wish list from Babies are us and found out she was decorating with primary colours and car stuff. Of course I cannot follow patterns to the letter, so I took the general idea, made three different aplique blocks (sports car, bug, and truck) that I kind of copied from a fabric I had, and changed the colours around a bit, eg. the border is fire engine red. I used my blanket stitch in the new machine, and fusible aplique, a first for me. Top turned out pretty nice, though very different from my usual quilts. I used Hobbs 80/20 for batting, and a flannel with cars, stop signs, etc for the back. I have had it sandwiched and quilted in the ditch for a few weeks, but I need to do the free motion and stuff. They came last night for Thanksgiving but it wasn't finished, I decided cleaning the house was more important and I hate finishing quilts in a hurry anyway, so I showed it to them and told them I would visit when I am done with it. She wants to go to Babies are us with me anyway to help me shop for what I need for Sofia, now that she has seen what I already have. So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you guys do? Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) |
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theres an interesting 'free' quilting stencil design to download on
http://www.quiltsewmuch.com/new40090.html i just came across this today, NAYY. might be another idea to incorporate somehow. jeanne "Polly Esther" wrote... | Dear doctor, it will not kill you to handquilt those little circles. It | really and truly will not. You might even learn to enjoy it. I was going to | suggest that wobbly circles ought to be just fine. After actually finding | the quilt picture and falling in love with it, it just seems to me that the | circle in a circle is great. You can mix SM and handquilting. Of course you | can. Go thread a needle and give it a try. What's the worst that can happen? | Polly | | "..Mickie Swall.." wrote in message | ... | You have recreated Toy Trucks on p.101 of the Holiday Update 2003 | Keepsake Catalog. I see the two circles, one inside the other, in the | solid square patches. The only way I would attempt to do them is to | trace around a suitable sized cup or plate and then stitch on the lines. | On the other hand, why not do a spiral? Using the walking foot, start | in the center and stitch your way around ending in one of the corners. | Use the edge of the foot to guide you, or else pencil it in and stitch | on the lines. | HTH Cute quilt, Marissa, hope you will share some pictures! | Mickie | | "Dr. Quilter" wrote in message | ... | Anybody has the last Keepsake catalogue? there is a pattern close to the | middle of the booklet of a boyish looking quilt, with aplique trucks, | and 4 patches, and larger squares, in red, green, orange, blue and red. | Found it? I decided to make one like it for my friend's baby, since I | visited her wish list from Babies are us and found out she was | decorating with primary colours and car stuff. | | Of course I cannot follow patterns to the letter, so I took the general | idea, made three different aplique blocks (sports car, bug, and truck) | that I kind of copied from a fabric I had, and changed the colours | around a bit, eg. the border is fire engine red. I used my blanket | stitch in the new machine, and fusible aplique, a first for me. Top | turned out pretty nice, though very different from my usual quilts. I | used Hobbs 80/20 for batting, and a flannel with cars, stop signs, etc | for the back. | | I have had it sandwiched and quilted in the ditch for a few weeks, but I | need to do the free motion and stuff. They came last night for | Thanksgiving but it wasn't finished, I decided cleaning the house was | more important and I hate finishing quilts in a hurry anyway, so I | showed it to them and told them I would visit when I am done with it. | She wants to go to Babies are us with me anyway to help me shop for what | I need for Sofia, now that she has seen what I already have. | | So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like | I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams | in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then | I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the | white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I | have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny | picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged | pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as | President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word | when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the | idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large | squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use | the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the | outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned | and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one | right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two | concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you | guys do? | | | | Dr. Quilter | Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens | (take the dog out before replying) | | | | | |
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I did mark them with a cup and stuff, but still have trouble following
the line, especially on the small circle. I have to put pictures of the last 3 baby quilts I've made on my webshots page... ...Mickie Swall.. wrote: You have recreated Toy Trucks on p.101 of the Holiday Update 2003 Keepsake Catalog. I see the two circles, one inside the other, in the solid square patches. The only way I would attempt to do them is to trace around a suitable sized cup or plate and then stitch on the lines. On the other hand, why not do a spiral? Using the walking foot, start in the center and stitch your way around ending in one of the corners. Use the edge of the foot to guide you, or else pencil it in and stitch on the lines. HTH Cute quilt, Marissa, hope you will share some pictures! Mickie "Dr. Quilter" wrote in message ... Anybody has the last Keepsake catalogue? there is a pattern close to the middle of the booklet of a boyish looking quilt, with aplique trucks, and 4 patches, and larger squares, in red, green, orange, blue and red. Found it? I decided to make one like it for my friend's baby, since I visited her wish list from Babies are us and found out she was decorating with primary colours and car stuff. Of course I cannot follow patterns to the letter, so I took the general idea, made three different aplique blocks (sports car, bug, and truck) that I kind of copied from a fabric I had, and changed the colours around a bit, eg. the border is fire engine red. I used my blanket stitch in the new machine, and fusible aplique, a first for me. Top turned out pretty nice, though very different from my usual quilts. I used Hobbs 80/20 for batting, and a flannel with cars, stop signs, etc for the back. I have had it sandwiched and quilted in the ditch for a few weeks, but I need to do the free motion and stuff. They came last night for Thanksgiving but it wasn't finished, I decided cleaning the house was more important and I hate finishing quilts in a hurry anyway, so I showed it to them and told them I would visit when I am done with it. She wants to go to Babies are us with me anyway to help me shop for what I need for Sofia, now that she has seen what I already have. So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you guys do? Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) |
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oh, I know how to handquilt, and I handquilt some projects, but I am not
sure I like the combination of both in the same quilt.... Polly Esther wrote: Dear doctor, it will not kill you to handquilt those little circles. It really and truly will not. You might even learn to enjoy it. I was going to suggest that wobbly circles ought to be just fine. After actually finding the quilt picture and falling in love with it, it just seems to me that the circle in a circle is great. You can mix SM and handquilting. Of course you can. Go thread a needle and give it a try. What's the worst that can happen? Polly "..Mickie Swall.." wrote in message ... You have recreated Toy Trucks on p.101 of the Holiday Update 2003 Keepsake Catalog. I see the two circles, one inside the other, in the solid square patches. The only way I would attempt to do them is to trace around a suitable sized cup or plate and then stitch on the lines. On the other hand, why not do a spiral? Using the walking foot, start in the center and stitch your way around ending in one of the corners. Use the edge of the foot to guide you, or else pencil it in and stitch on the lines. HTH Cute quilt, Marissa, hope you will share some pictures! Mickie "Dr. Quilter" wrote in message ... Anybody has the last Keepsake catalogue? there is a pattern close to the middle of the booklet of a boyish looking quilt, with aplique trucks, and 4 patches, and larger squares, in red, green, orange, blue and red. Found it? I decided to make one like it for my friend's baby, since I visited her wish list from Babies are us and found out she was decorating with primary colours and car stuff. Of course I cannot follow patterns to the letter, so I took the general idea, made three different aplique blocks (sports car, bug, and truck) that I kind of copied from a fabric I had, and changed the colours around a bit, eg. the border is fire engine red. I used my blanket stitch in the new machine, and fusible aplique, a first for me. Top turned out pretty nice, though very different from my usual quilts. I used Hobbs 80/20 for batting, and a flannel with cars, stop signs, etc for the back. I have had it sandwiched and quilted in the ditch for a few weeks, but I need to do the free motion and stuff. They came last night for Thanksgiving but it wasn't finished, I decided cleaning the house was more important and I hate finishing quilts in a hurry anyway, so I showed it to them and told them I would visit when I am done with it. She wants to go to Babies are us with me anyway to help me shop for what I need for Sofia, now that she has seen what I already have. So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you guys do? Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) |
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I like your suggestion and since the small circle is the problem, I
thought of doing spokes or something like that, but it sounded too bicicley... hubcaps are a great idea! nzl* wrote: some different hubcap patterns perhaps? circle with straight lines joining those circles somehow. theres gotta be heaps of those designs to view online somewhere. good luck, jeanne "Dr. Quilter" wrote... | Anybody has the last Keepsake catalogue? there is a pattern close to the | middle of the booklet of a boyish looking quilt, with aplique trucks, | and 4 patches, and larger squares, in red, green, orange, blue and red. | Found it? I decided to make one like it for my friend's baby, since I | visited her wish list from Babies are us and found out she was | decorating with primary colours and car stuff. | | Of course I cannot follow patterns to the letter, so I took the general | idea, made three different aplique blocks (sports car, bug, and truck) | that I kind of copied from a fabric I had, and changed the colours | around a bit, eg. the border is fire engine red. I used my blanket | stitch in the new machine, and fusible aplique, a first for me. Top | turned out pretty nice, though very different from my usual quilts. I | used Hobbs 80/20 for batting, and a flannel with cars, stop signs, etc | for the back. | | I have had it sandwiched and quilted in the ditch for a few weeks, but I | need to do the free motion and stuff. They came last night for | Thanksgiving but it wasn't finished, I decided cleaning the house was | more important and I hate finishing quilts in a hurry anyway, so I | showed it to them and told them I would visit when I am done with it. | She wants to go to Babies are us with me anyway to help me shop for what | I need for Sofia, now that she has seen what I already have. | | So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like | I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams | in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then | I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the | white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I | have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny | picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged | pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as | President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word | when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the | idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large | squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use | the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the | outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned | and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one | right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two | concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you | guys do? | | | | Dr. Quilter | Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens | (take the dog out before replying) | -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) |
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hmmm.. I'll try that. normally I am a wizard in my practice squares, the
problem comes when trying to squeeze the quilt through the machine's under arm space... imagine, for a circle with the walking foot, it is a constant turn, so I am not sure how to roll it! Patti wrote: Hullo Marissa I'm glad you are not in a hurry, because you will need to do a practice square with this, to see whether you could do it on the quilt as a whole! There is a very good way of sewing beautiful, exact circles, but I have never tried it on a large quilt. Decide the radius of the circle you want (in your case this will be several, sequentially). Measure this distance from the needle. tape a drawing pin/thumb tack onto the machine (point up!!), so that the point is the desired distance from the needle. Place your quilt piece onto the point of the tack, firmly, and begin to sew, Keep moving the quilt slowly round and you have a lovely, perfect circle. You can then repeat the exercise as many times as you wish. I would start with the centre, smallest one and work your way out, rather than the other way round. Oh! I would use the walking foot. . In article , Dr. Quilter writes snipped So now I am trying to finish it calmly. My question is as follows. Like I said, I quilted all seams that join the blocks, plus the middle seams in the four patches in the ditch to anchor it all, with red thread. Then I am doing free motion loops and stippling with variegated thread in the white areas around the stars and aplique vehicles. So far so good. I have to decide what to do with the long filler rectangles (from the tiny picture in the catalogue it looks as if they did some kind of jagged pattern, not sure if I like that). Ideas? But my real question (as President Bartlett said the other day on West Wing, why use one word when you can use 10, seems to be my perfect motto), DH really liked the idea of quilting concentric circles, reminiscent of wheels, on the large squares, as in the KQ catalogue. I said sure, no problem. Should I use the walking foot or try it free motion? It was relatively easy to do the outer circle with the walking foot, albeit the quilt has to be turned and turned slowly to follow the line. I could not do the small one right, though. And my free motion is not that perfect that I can do two concentric, paralell circles, mistakes are too obvious. What would you guys do? Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) -- Dr. Quilter Ambassador of Extraordinary Aliens (take the dog out before replying) |
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