cameras and quilting
10-21-2011, 04:33 AM
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A few years ago I discovered how quilt tops look through the camera lens helps me in my quilting. If I'm undecided about how I want to layout my quilt blocks, I try several layouts and photograph each of them. Looking at the layouts in the photos help me "take a step back" and I find it is much easier to decide on the direction I want the quilt to go. Many a times I had an initial layout in mind only to discover that once I used my camera to "step back" I hated the layout. Before I began using my camera I'd found myself at least halfway done with the top and not happy with it. That meant my seam ripper got commandeered to get me back to square one so I could lay them out in a different manner. Believe me, this has saved me from many hours of ripping blocks apart.
10-21-2011, 04:43 AM
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Originally Posted by Moon Holiday
A few years ago I discovered how quilt tops look through the camera lens helps me in my quilting. If I'm undecided about how I want to layout my quilt blocks, I try several layouts and photograph each of them. Looking at the layouts in the photos help me "take a step back" and I find it is much easier to decide on the direction I want the quilt to go. Many a times I had an initial layout in mind only to discover that once I used my camera to "step back" I hated the layout. Before I began using my camera I'd found myself at least halfway done with the top and not happy with it. That meant my seam ripper got commandeered to get me back to square one so I could lay them out in a different manner. Believe me, this has saved me from many hours of ripping blocks apart.
10-21-2011, 04:44 AM
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I have that same problem ... really quilt-stopping serious! I've made 2 small boards on which to transfer block pieces from my cutting table or design wall to my sewing machine. They are about 1"-thick styrofoam (came to our house as packing); I've covered them with white felt from a bolt I bought many years ago. I pin my block pieces on them to take to the sewing machine. They allow me to get the pieces sewn together as they should be. Without those boards, I would be in real trouble.
10-21-2011, 05:37 AM
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Originally Posted by JanTx
I know that we use our cameras to show off our work, but a note in another thread just solved a huge problem for me.
jaciqltznok wrote a suggestion about putting a HST quilt together, but the thing I'm holding on to is ... take a picture of it laid out, then sew.
THE PROBLEM is I'm working on a quilt for my husband - I have it laid out on a spare bed and keep it covered with some backing material. I take a few blocks at a time back to the sewing machine (have to go through the living room where he's sitting to get there) and then sew those few together. BUT I sewed 8 of them together WRONG. I can't remember how they go once I get to the sewing machine. Even though I picked them up very carefully - one set was right and the next set I've had to totally rip out. Now I'll take my camera back there with me, snap a shot, pick up those blocks, go and sew!
So ... what else do you use your camera for? This little hint just saved me on this particular quilt! (AND I should have thought of it myself!)
jaciqltznok wrote a suggestion about putting a HST quilt together, but the thing I'm holding on to is ... take a picture of it laid out, then sew.
THE PROBLEM is I'm working on a quilt for my husband - I have it laid out on a spare bed and keep it covered with some backing material. I take a few blocks at a time back to the sewing machine (have to go through the living room where he's sitting to get there) and then sew those few together. BUT I sewed 8 of them together WRONG. I can't remember how they go once I get to the sewing machine. Even though I picked them up very carefully - one set was right and the next set I've had to totally rip out. Now I'll take my camera back there with me, snap a shot, pick up those blocks, go and sew!
So ... what else do you use your camera for? This little hint just saved me on this particular quilt! (AND I should have thought of it myself!)
Another thing I do is I make one block the way it needs to be currently a non traditional log cabin block, with all creams for several rows and creams are going vertically when used with the darks which are going horizontally. I keep the one correct block with me at the sewing machine, so I know I am putting the other blocks together correctly
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