Originally Posted by Pam
Born to quilt, do you mark your own tops? If so do you use commercially prepared templates? Do you draw your own? Please share!
Pam,
yes, I mark my own quilt tops. The preprinted ones are great and have beautiful designs but I love to find the fabric I want and it's a challenge for me to do the designs. I also use the readycut stencils very often - the complete ones or just parts of it. When I see a quilting pattern in a book on a picture I try to draw my own. I have many books about the British Quilting history with pictures of wholeclohts form North England and Wales made in the 17th to the 20th century and the quilters used wonderful patterns there. I draw them and make my own templates out of cardbord. Small patterns like spirals, leaves etc I draw freehand or quilt freehand without any markings. The quilting you see on my avatar is done freehand.