Process question -- when do you think through your quilting plan?
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Process question -- when do you think through your quilting plan?
Just curious how others work through the process of designing /making a quilt.
When do you start making plans or narrowing your ideas for how you will quilt? Is it something you keep in mind from the beginning? Do you have a general but flexible idea that may shift as you go along? Do you kind of forget up until the end, and then scramble around to figure out what will work?
I personally tend to the flexible plan subject to change, but I always have some concept going in -- it's a big part of how I choose to press the seams, construct the blocks, color choices even.
When do you start making plans or narrowing your ideas for how you will quilt? Is it something you keep in mind from the beginning? Do you have a general but flexible idea that may shift as you go along? Do you kind of forget up until the end, and then scramble around to figure out what will work?
I personally tend to the flexible plan subject to change, but I always have some concept going in -- it's a big part of how I choose to press the seams, construct the blocks, color choices even.
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I usually have a vision of what I think it will look like. But it seldom works out that way unless I just take a pattern and adhere to it faithfully and then the colors are subject to change. I am getting better at letting the quilt tell me what it needs. I know, Whacko!
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I usually have a plan for my quilting I have the Juki 2010 and its does just what you want it to I began quilting my quilt yesterday on my machine. remember I had a plan (right) I don't know what went wrong but the plan is gone and just quilting like crazy. ha ha even got in a few hand quilting in some blocks but I love it. just been quilting a bout two years and I am hooked when I sat down from housework I feel like I have to have a needle and thread lol not a smoke been quit two years now and feel so free GOD IS SO GOOD
#7
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Plan? What is this word, and what does it mean?
Heck, sometimes when I start a quilt I don't even know what I'm making. I just start putting stuff together and it sort of works itself out in the end. I make goals as I go along, but everything is subject to change.
SOME quilts are planned out in detail before I start, all the way from tip to toes. Those are usually quilts I'm making as gifts.
But often, maybe even half the time, I figure it out as I go. Especially if I'm using pre-cuts, for some reason those strike me as something already in progress anyway so I grab them and start getting creative.
Each seam leads to the next, and eventually it's a quilt! LOL
Heck, sometimes when I start a quilt I don't even know what I'm making. I just start putting stuff together and it sort of works itself out in the end. I make goals as I go along, but everything is subject to change.
SOME quilts are planned out in detail before I start, all the way from tip to toes. Those are usually quilts I'm making as gifts.
But often, maybe even half the time, I figure it out as I go. Especially if I'm using pre-cuts, for some reason those strike me as something already in progress anyway so I grab them and start getting creative.
Each seam leads to the next, and eventually it's a quilt! LOL
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usually as i'm making it. the one on my bed has anchors, dolphins, ships wheels, sandcastles and roping all hand quilted.
I hate to admit it but most times I quilt in the ditch or do roping or flowers or feathers. I need to branch out a bit.
I hate to admit it but most times I quilt in the ditch or do roping or flowers or feathers. I need to branch out a bit.
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