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I see what your talking about now. You are not talking about an embroidery design. Your talking about a quilting motif.
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I, too agree with Candace. I did a queen sized quilt with 80/20 poly on a Pfaff 7570 using a card special for 'quilting'. I loved the way it turned out. The only problem I had was with the weight of the quilt pulling the design off a little and when I made sure that there was enough 'give' for the quilt to move around the frame. And yes it was tricky getting it to hoop, but after you do it a dozen times or more you will get the hang of it.
Originally Posted by Candace
I embroider my quilts all the time. I only use outline stitches on the 3 layer sandwich. If other embroidery designs are used, those with fill stitches they must be embroidered on the top only. Otherwise they'll be ugly on the back. The outline stitches look as good on the top as the bottom-at least they should!
Here's what I do: Hoop the sandwich. Yes, it can be tricky but is worth the time saved quilting it on your own. I use NO stablizer as the batting acts as the stabilizer, especially on outline, quilting designs. I only use a thin batting like Warm and Natural or a low loft fusible, batting. I stitch out a sample first to test tension of the design. Often times I lower the top tension on my machine. I don't use the pig tail in the bobbin (for Berninas) and set up my machine for normal sewing. This evens out the tension. I stitch out the design on my quilt and watch it carefully. I hold the fabric up lightly as the weight of the quilt pulls on the embroidery arm...especially if the quilt is large. I don't create any tension on the quilt I simply keep the quilt lifted up off the arm so it doesn't "pull". Hope this helps. I embroider/quilt many of my quilts using my embroidery function. In fact, it's why I bought my machine to begin with. I don't have a long-arm, but this is the closest I can get to perfect feathers etc. I do FMQ a lot on my own, but the embroidery function makes it look so professional and perfect! |
I understand now what you are wanting to do. My first thought reading it yesterday was that you wanted to embroider a complex (for lack of better term) design, not a simple one line design.
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Originally Posted by racnquilter
I understand now what you are wanting to do. My first thought reading it yesterday was that you wanted to embroider a complex (for lack of better term) design, not a simple one line design.
Learn something new all the time. |
lay your three layers on top of the stabilize and you should have a setting that you can stitch a large frame around your hoop in a basteing stitch. I use it for all my emb and it helps to keep it from puckering
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Candice, I tried using my embroidery machine today to do the quilting designs. I followed your directions and it worked really well. I can see it will take a few times to get used to hooping the three layers. I took my machine and placed it on my table and found out that that worked really well, as there is not so much pull on the fabric then, as the excess lays on the table and doesn't pull. I am so impressed with the designs, certainly adds a lot to a quilt. Thanks so much to you and everyone else for all of their advice; I really do appreciate it and have learned alot from this site. Thanks and Happy Quilting!
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Good to hear:>
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awesome thread, learning alot!
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