I am a "newbie" and I have a HUGH question!
07-21-2011, 07:52 AM
#13
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Join Date: Jun 2011
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Hi and welcome. That is a very nice quilt top. Take a look at this web site. It might give you help on machine quilting.
http://www.ideas-for-quilting.com/ma...equilting.html
http://www.ideas-for-quilting.com/ma...equilting.html
07-21-2011, 08:03 AM
#14
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Stagecoach, NV
Posts: 1,587
My goodness for your first quilt it is just beautiful. I would have never tackled something like this for a first quilt. I have no idea about the quilting just wanted to compliment you on your beautiful quilt.
07-21-2011, 08:23 AM
#16
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Location: Trego, WI
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Well, that is just amazing for your first quilt!
I have an antique irish chain done by my grandmother eons ago, and she treated the chains much as feline fanatic suggests -- with straight diagonal lines through the chains -- then she did some fancy stuff in the plain squares.
For the plain strips next to the Seminole strips (bravo on those strips, by the way!) you could mark and stitch diagonal lines in two directions, which would make diamond shapes where they cross over. I've done this on a domestic sewing machine, and it is not too difficult to change direction like that.
Do you have a walking foot? If not, you should get one -- you'll get lots better results. And baste well -- it is unbelievable how lumpy a quilt can get that is not basted well, when you try to machine quilt it. I really like the spray basting stuff. It is easy to overspray, so I have gone to spraying the interior of the quilt, then pinning or hand basting the borders and outer edges.
Hope this helps!
I have an antique irish chain done by my grandmother eons ago, and she treated the chains much as feline fanatic suggests -- with straight diagonal lines through the chains -- then she did some fancy stuff in the plain squares.
For the plain strips next to the Seminole strips (bravo on those strips, by the way!) you could mark and stitch diagonal lines in two directions, which would make diamond shapes where they cross over. I've done this on a domestic sewing machine, and it is not too difficult to change direction like that.
Do you have a walking foot? If not, you should get one -- you'll get lots better results. And baste well -- it is unbelievable how lumpy a quilt can get that is not basted well, when you try to machine quilt it. I really like the spray basting stuff. It is easy to overspray, so I have gone to spraying the interior of the quilt, then pinning or hand basting the borders and outer edges.
Hope this helps!
07-21-2011, 08:42 AM
#18
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Piedmont Virginia in the Foothills of the Blue Ridge Mtns.
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You've done a remarkable job for a beginner! Looks wonderful!
Because of the size, perhaps you should consider sending it out for longarm quilting by a professional quilter. Candlequilter here on the board does beautiful work that she often shares with us....and she's running a great special pricing right now, 25% off! You might PM her.
I've long since given up trying to FMQ at home with large quilts after spending 8 weeks at the chiropractor following my last one!
Jan in VA
Because of the size, perhaps you should consider sending it out for longarm quilting by a professional quilter. Candlequilter here on the board does beautiful work that she often shares with us....and she's running a great special pricing right now, 25% off! You might PM her.
I've long since given up trying to FMQ at home with large quilts after spending 8 weeks at the chiropractor following my last one!
Jan in VA
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