I have never attempted the piano key border design (straight lines) because it would take forever - I am so glad you asked that question - I love the look but afraid I would stop long before I finished. Hope you find a good solution.
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I have never attempted the piano key border design (straight lines) because it would take forever - I am so glad you asked that question - I love the look but afraid I would stop long before I finished. Hope you find a good solution.
Painters tape is good for that sort of thing. Lay down parallel rows of tape in the width you want the keys to be and then remove every other one. Do about 6 to 8 inches worth at once and then walk the pieces along the border as you add the quilting. Quilt along the edge of the tape. See below
Quilt along edges of the tape then move strip 1 to space 6, strip 2 to space 7 and so on.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Do you quilt one line then cut the thread and then do the next and cut the thread?Originally Posted by bjchad
I ended up marking my border and then doing a line and then quilting in the ditch to the next line and doing that they whole way around. Kept me from stopping and starting which is what I was trying to avoid.
The quilt (well the back of the quilt) in question that I'm working on. Doing it all on my DSM. I'm new to fmq'ing..or anything that isn't plain straight line quilting.
If you look close I have some piano keys quilting done and then some diagonal lines. Please be gentle.
You are doing a beautiful joband I certainly wouldn't have guessed that you were new to fmq. How did you keep you ribbon candy so nice and even? Mine always looks like it melted in spots, lol.
GEMRM, the ribbon candy is the first curvy lined boarder from the outside. I am not sure what railroad tracks are though
Thank you. There are a few spots in the ribbon candy where I lost my rhythm and goofed. So it's not perfect by a long shot.
I don't know of an easy way... but it looks so good, it's worth the trouble! I didn't want to cut the stitching with each line, so instead I did a LOT of turning the quilt.
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Sure looks good to me!
Railroad track quilting - https://video.search.yahoo.com/video...t=mozilla&tt=b
Ribbon Candy Quilting - http://theinboxjaunt.com/2014/06/10/...uilt-tutorial/
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Mark lines to look like piano key border. I make piano key borders alot and either straight stitch every three or four inches apart or just FMQ across them. Depends on my mood at the time.
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