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I have been considering this technique for awhile but have not tried it. This may give me the push since I really like the look of it and do enjoy hand quilting.
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hand quilting with large stitches
Originally Posted by tropit
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I love all of the Japanese style quilts with the large stitch quilting. I'd also like to see that technique used in other style of quilts too. EG: colorful kids' quilts, artsy quilts, etc. Anyone ever done this? What materials, thread, tools do you use?
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Originally Posted by willferg
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I've been thinking about doing this, too, but I'm always afraid I'll start and get tired of it and then the project will never get finished...
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Originally Posted by Emmaj1045
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Hi. I did big stitch quilting using perle thread recently on a child's quilt and I thought it looked quite effective. You can see the front and back here.
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Oh my gosh, I am so glad to see this post. I hand quilted my GS's "Out in the universe"quilt with all different sizes of circles to mimic the planets. It was to big to do on my machine and sending it out was not an option, but I am not a pretty stitches hand quilter. Tried many times, can't do it. So the stitches were about 4 to an inch and as even as I could manage. It looks pretty good and I know he will love it but I had this sneaky little guilt feeling that they weren't 8 or 12 to the inch. Hooray for big stitch quilting. Now I can feel better about picking up that needle and playing some more. You guys are the best.
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I used Perle Cotton and ran my thread through beeswax to aid with the threading of my needle.
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Sashiko stitches use a thicker thread, so go for it. Enjoy the exercise in learning a new skill.
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I have done some sashiko stitching and it is very precise and not necessarily large stitches. I really love the big stitches in certain applications and consider it as important to learn as small, tiny stitching. I am wondering how if I could use it in a tee shirt quilt. mmmm.
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This is the solution to my problem. I need to finish a Mickey Mouse quilt for my DGS and don't have time to send it out to my LA and can't FMQ. I can hand quilt though and the big stitch will look really cute on this one. Thanks to all of you for bringing the idea to the forefront!
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I did a lesson in "Big Stitch Quilting" and we all loved it, it was easy and so nice to be able to do something by hand. The effects were great and the only "rule" was to maintain stitch size, didn't matter what size as long as they were even. As a matter of interest we used Perle cotton from http://www.threadart.com/c-283-pearl-cotton-thread.aspx beautiful quality.
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