Ever "too much" quilting?
09-01-2010, 05:19 AM
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I think it depends on the quilt. If the quilt has wide borders, or fairly large solid blocks in it then those are a quilting canvas and should be use to show case the quilters ability. I think the quilting depends on each individual quilt, what the owner wants, the laq capabilities, etc.
09-01-2010, 05:04 PM
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One of the reasons I like Fons and Porters Love of Quilting is because they show you how to machine quilt your project. Seems that there is massive quilting on some quilts or rows and rows of the same design with the panogram. (sp) I was in one shop when they were quilting rows of apples. Not on my quilt. We need to think out the design before we jump into it. I am also tired of everything stippled or yards of feathers though I do love the feathers but, not on everything. The quilting should enhance the quilt not bury it. I had my daughter quilt on her sewing machine my Winterwonderland Quilt with hugh hand embroidered blocks all in blue floss on white fabric with snowflake print. She did some stars in it here and there as she meandered over it and she added crystals to the big snowflakes here and there. I had it on the wall for 4 months and I enjoyed my own efforts of embroidery of all the snow people and trees and how beautiful she did the machine quilting. The crystals caught your eye with a sparkle of light. They complimented each other. Love it. The massive design might look pretty on plain fabric but, I will stick with lightly quilted. It serves the purpose of holding the layers together. I have also heard quilters say that I don't feel like I made the quilt when others do it on long arm. I am fortunate to have a quilt that my great great grandma made and the hand work of quilting with the cotton they used in late 1800 is pretty lumpy in that one. They dyed fabric blue for the solid color. It has that lived in look if you know what I mean.
09-01-2010, 08:28 PM
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SharonAnne, To me your quilt has an art quilt feel, therefore I'd probably quilt it with different/creative stitches (patterns) in the various sections. It seems like the leopard in the lower right needs to be outlined, maybe even around his eyes, ears, nose, etc.
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Originally Posted by SharonAnne
I am glad for this discussion because as a new quilter, I have been baffled about the quilting part. Granted, I have yet to take a class, but I have done a lot of looking at pictures on this board. I love each and every one of the quilts/projects I have seen, and the quilting of feathers, curliques, etc is exquisite, but still, I am afraid to do it. As an example, I am attaching a picture that I still do not know what to do with. I think it is beautiful "as is" and am scared to ruin the simplicity and beauty of the cat by running thread all over him. Small projects such as potholders and placemats can "take" and often demand a lot of stippling, but I want this quilt to be natural. So, my dilemna is - should I or shouldn't I do anything but SID on this one. Can't make up my mind, thus this has sat as a UFO since February, 2010. I don't need it until Christmas, so I still have some time to deal with it. And this is my problem with all my projects. Is less more? Is more too much? Does this come with experience or is it a personal like/dislike thing? Thanks for listening and for your potential comments. Oops, how do I put my photo here?
09-01-2010, 08:38 PM
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I sent out one quilt to a LA, and told her to do less quilting, than what she explained she was going to do. When I got the quilt back , I was dissappointed , she had quilted over everything --covering up the designs on my blocks; it was so stiff and not at all cuddly. I will quilt all my quilts myself from now on .
09-02-2010, 03:19 AM
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Gorgeous! Please consider outlining those cats! Then you could do a "meandering" stitch over the rest of the quilt. I've always been told you just want to have the batting sewn every 4 to 6 inches to hold it in place. Please let us see the finished results.
09-02-2010, 03:38 AM
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Originally Posted by justwannaquilt
I personally don't like a lot of quilting on MY quilts. I have seen some very beautiful quilts that are COVERED in quilting though! I wonder if they are more for show? I think the more dense the quilting is the stiffer the quilt becomes, I wouldn't want to lay under a "blanket" of thread. I might hang it on my wall though.
To each their own though right?
To each their own though right?
09-02-2010, 03:40 AM
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Originally Posted by moreland
It seems as Long Arm Quilting becomes more and more accessible, the amount of quilting seen on laq quilts has exploded. I have to sometimes wonder if the quilting is trying to outdo the piecing/fabric/design. I am not a laq and I am not taking potshots at those of you who are, but I just wondered if anyone else ever thought about this. I am not convinced that having quilting on every piece of the fabric that is visible is necessarily the "best way"--I tend to feel like it becomes "one upmanship" between piecer and quilter.
Do you think as we get past the initial rapture of now being able to quilt as much as we want to/can, that there will be more balance? Perhaps I'm the only one who thinks it is often out of balance???
Do you think as we get past the initial rapture of now being able to quilt as much as we want to/can, that there will be more balance? Perhaps I'm the only one who thinks it is often out of balance???
09-02-2010, 03:57 AM
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Originally Posted by moreland
It seems as Long Arm Quilting becomes more and more accessible, the amount of quilting seen on laq quilts has exploded. I have to sometimes wonder if the quilting is trying to outdo the piecing/fabric/design. I am not a laq and I am not taking potshots at those of you who are, but I just wondered if anyone else ever thought about this. I am not convinced that having quilting on every piece of the fabric that is visible is necessarily the "best way"--I tend to feel like it becomes "one upmanship" between piecer and quilter.
Do you think as we get past the initial rapture of now being able to quilt as much as we want to/can, that there will be more balance? Perhaps I'm the only one who thinks it is often out of balance???
Do you think as we get past the initial rapture of now being able to quilt as much as we want to/can, that there will be more balance? Perhaps I'm the only one who thinks it is often out of balance???
09-02-2010, 04:30 AM
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I guess I am the oddball because I hand quilt and have a thing against the quilting frenzy overkill I see in a lot of quilts. I did a deer quilt and what I did was to outline the animals as this sort of puffed them out a bit, and used green to meander through the trees, and just used the fabric itself as a guide to quilting. Blocks I did in the usual 1/4 inch from each seam. I did machine quilt in the ditch, but tore it all out as I handquilted as I found it puckered badly with the machine. I have a Janome 6600 and find it difficult to actually machine quilt on it unless I use a fusible batting. Any suggestions out there as to how I can machine quilt without going bonkers over the puckering???
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