Need help to get past just stitching in the ditch!
12-12-2010, 01:36 PM
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Start with a white board and an erasable magic marker pen. Draw lots of doodles and swirls until you have a flow going. I think stippling or meandering, where you are "not supposed" to cross over a line of stitiching, can be hard for new quilters. IMHO it's a lot easier to make loops, trying to keep a size in mind for a fairly uniform look (think quarters or half-dollars).
If you use a busy print for the backing and match the bobbin thread to it, mistakes won't even show. At the beginning, do ditch-quilting for the bulk of the quilt, then do FM loops in the border where you probably have patterned fabric, again, so the mistakes don't show. Pretty soon you'll be making loops all over the whole quilt. Once you feel comfortable with loops you'll be able to move on to other FM designs. Good luck!
If you use a busy print for the backing and match the bobbin thread to it, mistakes won't even show. At the beginning, do ditch-quilting for the bulk of the quilt, then do FM loops in the border where you probably have patterned fabric, again, so the mistakes don't show. Pretty soon you'll be making loops all over the whole quilt. Once you feel comfortable with loops you'll be able to move on to other FM designs. Good luck!
12-13-2010, 11:33 PM
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Originally Posted by fwoolsey
I'm still in the dark about what all those initials mean. In your letter you used fmq and lol. I draw a blank on both and others that I have seen in other links. HELP! Maybe I should ask Konstantin for a vocabulary abbreviation list. Flo. [email protected]
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