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Get in line, Honey. I have seniority!
-- LN in NH a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts! http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed "Cina" wrote in message ... LN wrote: You learn to ignore it. Specially when they start coming to your mailbox. Hm, well... I can see how a person could change her mind on this subject. I bet it *is* rather nice to receive one. Someone should send me a quilt so I know how it feels. =) Cina --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.551 / Virus Database: 343 - Release Date: 12/11/2003 |
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See, I didn't even have to!
I've got one of Kathy's masterpieces. She knows she has to put me back on the list for another. Hopefully a larger one next time. One I can really cuddle up in. Sigh.... -- LN in NH (finished quilts squishies. snail avail upon request) "Valerie" wrote in message om... what is this? LN answering the question and no begging ? lol my heart is broken . i so was waiting for a good beg so i could see how the best quilt begger of all time does her work. as a very begining quilter( just got my first sewing machine)i need all the tips i can get. i love the stuff i read @ RCTQ.and LN if i ever get a quilt done i will put you on my list of quilts to do. Valerie "LN \(remove NOSPAM\)" The Free-motion meandering was in the same color as the background fabric (white). -- LN in NH a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts! http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed "Kathy Applebaum" "Cina" wrote in message ... The in-between quilting (is there a "proper" name for it?)... did you use white thread for the smaller free-motion designs? I like the contrast in the photo. Gosh, you expect me to remember? I'm having trouble with what happened five minutes ago! LOL Looking at the picture, it does look like I used a matching thread for the meandering. LN could probably tell you for sure. --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.551 / Virus Database: 343 - Release Date: 12/11/2003 |
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I've always thought the same thing. That's why when I quilt names, I have to
do it from the back cuz it all comes out backwards for me. LOL -- LN in NH a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts! http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed "frood" wrote in message m... I understand this practice method for long-arm quilting, but isn't the equivilent for regular machines to hold the pencil still and move the paper? How can doodling help me figure out how to quilt on my machine? -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm De-Fang email address to reply "Kathy Applebaum" wrote in message . com... --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.551 / Virus Database: 343 - Release Date: 12/11/2003 |
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"Marcella Tracy Peek" wrote in message ... Bar cookies kinda like a brownie. But not chocolate. Think chocolate chip cookie dough without the chocolate...kinda a brown sugar, buttery, chewy, bliss, drool, drool, drool. What's the point? The only reason to eat a brownie is the chocolate. *grin* marcella tried the new scharffen-berger extra dark or milk chocolate yet? Can't do milk chocolate, and I haven't seen the extra dark at Nugget yet. But I'll sure look on Thursday when I go to Whole Foods!!! (great, now I'm drooling on the keyboard.) -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) longarm machine quilting, Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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"frood" wrote in message m... I understand this practice method for long-arm quilting, but isn't the equivilent for regular machines to hold the pencil still and move the paper? How can doodling help me figure out how to quilt on my machine? You aren't training muscle movements, but rather training your brain. After all, the muscles I use for holding a pencil to paper really aren't the same ones I use to move a 100 lb. longarm. And I use this same technique for designing thread embellishments, which I do in a hoop on my home sewing machine, using the same motions as for free motion quilting. It's hard to explain in words, so bear with me and I'll do the best I can. Let me use as an example a pattern I'm doing on the sashing of a quilt right now. It's interlocking hearts -- along the row, a rightside up heart morphs into an upside down heart, which changes back into a rightside up heart. What doodling taught my brain was what curves in, what curves out, where the points are, and where the "trouble spots" are. (Like how was I going to start and end the row? What about the cornerstones where the sashing intersects? What do I do when I'm running out of row?) There's no substitute for knowing how to control your machine. Before doodling can do you much good (IMHO), you need to be able to get from one point to another with your machine, do basic curved shapes, and have some kind of reasonable accuracy. Not perfect, but reasonable, whatever your definition of that is. *grin* (There's lots of practice sets for this which I've recommended here before and will be glad to do again if anyone wants them.) Once you get to that point, doodling is a fast, easy way to work out the "kinks" in designs and to try new things. It's very easy to do "what ifs" with a pencil... what if I make the end of this leaf square? What if I do a double line here? What if I make this figure 8 into a bee? Perhaps it would make more sense if I said doodling helps with the creative / design aspects of quilting, rather than the mechanics of it? Or would that just confuse the issue??? -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) longarm machine quilting, Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message ... See, I didn't even have to! I've got one of Kathy's masterpieces. She knows she has to put me back on the list for another. Hopefully a larger one next time. One I can really cuddle up in. Sigh.... Oh, you're on my list. ;-) BTW, it would really help if you bought me a lottery ticket that wins, say, $10 million or so. Then I'd have plenty of time to work on that quilt for you. Heck, I'd even move you up to the head of the list! -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) longarm machine quilting, Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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If I won the lottery, I'd come get it!
-- LN in NH a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts! http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed "Kathy Applebaum" wrote in message om... "LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message ... See, I didn't even have to! I've got one of Kathy's masterpieces. She knows she has to put me back on the list for another. Hopefully a larger one next time. One I can really cuddle up in. Sigh.... Oh, you're on my list. ;-) BTW, it would really help if you bought me a lottery ticket that wins, say, $10 million or so. Then I'd have plenty of time to work on that quilt for you. Heck, I'd even move you up to the head of the list! -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) longarm machine quilting, Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.551 / Virus Database: 343 - Release Date: 12/11/2003 |
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Hullo Wendy
That is a good point. However, the doodling - even preparing for a domestic machine - can get your hand/eye/brain co-ordinated into making continuous-line designs. For many of us that is just as much of an early problem as the 'moving under the needle problem'. But, now you've got me thinking!! and I shall try to invent a method of holding a pencil fixed above the desk! .. In article , frood writes I understand this practice method for long-arm quilting, but isn't the equivilent for regular machines to hold the pencil still and move the paper? How can doodling help me figure out how to quilt on my machine? -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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Reasonable accuracy. I think I'm there! My shapes come out close to what I
intended, and mostly recognizable. OK, the doodling as design practice makes sense. I'll give it a try. But anytime you want to come over, and doodle with me so I can see what you mean, come on over! -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm de-fang email address to reply "Kathy Applebaum" wrote in message . com... "frood" wrote in message m... I understand this practice method for long-arm quilting, but isn't the equivilent for regular machines to hold the pencil still and move the paper? How can doodling help me figure out how to quilt on my machine? You aren't training muscle movements, but rather training your brain. After all, the muscles I use for holding a pencil to paper really aren't the same ones I use to move a 100 lb. longarm. And I use this same technique for designing thread embellishments, which I do in a hoop on my home sewing machine, using the same motions as for free motion quilting. It's hard to explain in words, so bear with me and I'll do the best I can. Let me use as an example a pattern I'm doing on the sashing of a quilt right now. It's interlocking hearts -- along the row, a rightside up heart morphs into an upside down heart, which changes back into a rightside up heart. What doodling taught my brain was what curves in, what curves out, where the points are, and where the "trouble spots" are. (Like how was I going to start and end the row? What about the cornerstones where the sashing intersects? What do I do when I'm running out of row?) There's no substitute for knowing how to control your machine. Before doodling can do you much good (IMHO), you need to be able to get from one point to another with your machine, do basic curved shapes, and have some kind of reasonable accuracy. Not perfect, but reasonable, whatever your definition of that is. *grin* (There's lots of practice sets for this which I've recommended here before and will be glad to do again if anyone wants them.) Once you get to that point, doodling is a fast, easy way to work out the "kinks" in designs and to try new things. It's very easy to do "what ifs" with a pencil... what if I make the end of this leaf square? What if I do a double line here? What if I make this figure 8 into a bee? Perhaps it would make more sense if I said doodling helps with the creative / design aspects of quilting, rather than the mechanics of it? Or would that just confuse the issue??? -- Kathy A. (Woodland, CA) longarm machine quilting, Queen of Fabric Tramps http://www.kayneyquilting.com , remove the obvious to reply |
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Pat in VA wrote:
Cina: First, what is this with 'ultrayummy blondies?' A couple years ago, I baked for holiday gifts. Banana bread, poppy seed rolls, nut rolls, several kinds of cookies, chocolate covered pretzels (dark, milk, and white), and seasoned pretzels. I even made peanut butter & honey dog biscuits. But the biggest hit was my blondies, which were dubbed by friends as "Cina's ultrayummy blondies." You shoulda heard the whining when it was discovered that I wasn't baking gifts this year. Next, to the best of my knowledge, there is no 'list for possible squishy recipient.' Hm. I was under the impression that someone maintained a current mailing list. Is that mistaken? Cina |
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