bella quilt
#24
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Posts: 335
I have done FMQ but somehow am never pleased with the results and don't enjoy doing it so I mostly straightline quilt with my walking foot. There are many designs that can be done this way and I find it more fun and it holds the quilt together much better. This quilt is lovely and straight line will emphasize the design instead of taking away from it.
#28
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Winchester, VA
Posts: 1,552
Have you tried "drawing" a design with a friction pen, and then, with SLOW stitching, following those lines to quilt? I absolutely cannot do FMQ no smooth easy lines here....but I can draw, iron to erase and re-draw with the friction pens until I get something I can either like or live with, and then I follow the lines with my dsm..........the end result is really pretty nice. You can even trace outlines of pictures/shapes to fill "white spaces" and with the friction pens, if you do not like all or part of it, you just iron it to remove the lines, and then re-do.......almost like coloring without the permanency.............Have fun...quilt is beautiful............Since it is "chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry" in color, you could name it NEOPOLITAN...............
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