Help - FMQ Warm Wishes
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The paper is by Golden Threads.... called Golden Threads quilting paper. You can get it from their website. Great stuff... use it all the time. Check out their website and I believe they have a video. I mark my pattern on my quilt before FMQ or use the paper... Helps a great deal
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Thank you for the paper removal tip. I have watched some Leah Day tutorials - I am envious of her talent. I just can't get control of my movements for some reason.
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#15
I too am intimidated by FM quilting on my domestic machine. My machine of course has stitch length control. However, when I drop the feed dogs, now the stitch length is totally under my control. This is where I come to my problem my rhythm...movement whatever you want to call it...one stitch may be 2...then my movement makes it 4 then 3 and so on.... Terrible not consistency in my movement to make even stitches, I guess?
I visited the Houston Quilt Festival and they were demonstrating a machine at that time that had stitch control while you were doing FM quilting....ahh that would be heaven for me!
I have a Husqvarna Viking 1+, which I'm devoted to.
I visited the Houston Quilt Festival and they were demonstrating a machine at that time that had stitch control while you were doing FM quilting....ahh that would be heaven for me!
I have a Husqvarna Viking 1+, which I'm devoted to.
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Would a washable stabilizer work? I thought of penciling the pattern on it then tacking it to the project. That way I could just throw it in the washer and not worry about bits and pieces of paper or pulled threads.
#20
I'm also a struggling FMQ-er. One of the things that I can do pretty well, consistantly, is loops and curves and that ususally looks good as a background motif. On the LA I can do meandering well, but have trouble on my DSM. I'll keep plugging away at it and hoping that one of these days, it just clicks.
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