Help needed with quilting On puffy batting!
10-27-2016, 09:51 AM
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Help needed with quilting On puffy batting!
This isn't a large piece-about 30"x40" ish. I am using a puffier batting than I usually use, and this needs help! Any suggestions on tying the large snowflakes together? I considered pebbling, but it will take me forever on my DSM, and it might overwhelm it? In between the trees, I did a small loopy design with tiny snowflakes. Should I just do a loopy ribbon to connect the large snowflakes and fill it in a bit? Not sure I will use puffy batting again! Thanks for always being here and sharing your knowledge!
10-27-2016, 10:30 AM
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Very pretty! Whenever you do connecting lines that come up to already quilted spots, you run the risk of pleats where they meet. If you are confident the top is perfectly flat then do the loop de loops. If however you think you might have some extra fabric in the top, I might do the tie tack feature to make the sky look all dimpled between the snowflakes.
10-27-2016, 01:14 PM
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Pebbling would probably make your snowflakes disappear. But because each snowflake is a dense fill in itself you don't have an even distribution of quilting. You could try quilting in more snowflakes to take up that extra space or echoing them.
10-27-2016, 07:36 PM
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Your quilt is CUTE!!!!
OK, I would NOT do pebbling - as someone else said, you would "lose" your snowflakes.
Instead, I would "echo" about 1/4 - 1/2 inch out around each snowflake, then a very OPEN (not dense, and not a lot) loop-de-loop, sort of make it look like the wind swirling the snowflakes.
On the narrow, red border, I would pebble that, and piano keys (somewhat wide) on the outer border.
OK, I would NOT do pebbling - as someone else said, you would "lose" your snowflakes.
Instead, I would "echo" about 1/4 - 1/2 inch out around each snowflake, then a very OPEN (not dense, and not a lot) loop-de-loop, sort of make it look like the wind swirling the snowflakes.
On the narrow, red border, I would pebble that, and piano keys (somewhat wide) on the outer border.
10-27-2016, 09:25 PM
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love those snowflakes and want to see them better! I'd echo around them about 1/4" from the outside edge and then do some squiqqley vertical lines with little stars/flakes scattered along them--just enough to flatten that surrounding white area a litte and play up those cool snowflakes. Very cute quilt.
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