Originally Posted by featherweight
Originally Posted by katier825
I found stippling boring to do. It seems so monotonous to me. I did a few quilts that way, using a larger stipple. It takes forever for me to do a smaller stipple. I like doing swirls and loops better. I'm dying to try out feathers since I bought the Hooked on Feathers book...hopefully someday soon. I also like to draw a design on Sulky Solvy with washable markers and pin it to the quilt to quilt over it. Once it's done, you trim off the bulk of the extra and the rest washes away in the laundry. I did some pretty quilting that way on the quilt in my avatar.
Some people use Glad wrap Press and Seal to mark the design on and then FM over it. It would be a lot cheaper than Solvy. I am going to give that a try.
Yes, I'm sure it would be cheaper. But for me, I'd get frustrated with it quickly. I am still fairly new to FMQ and often have areas of tiny stitching. To pull the little bits of that out would really take too much of my time. Maybe as I get better, my stitches will become bigger and more consistent and I'll give the Press & Seal a shot.