Quiting a piano key border?
#12
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Dee's border treatment on her pointless stars quilt would be VERY easy to do on your HSM. Put down masking tape or painters tape to stitch next to for your straight diagonal lines or mark them with a soluble marker. Another option besides SID is to quilt on each key right next to the seam line, like an 1/8 of an inch or less away. Easier then trying to stay right in the ditch and looks just as nice if done consistently. If you piano key is your outer most border you can simply cut off your thread ends on the outside edge, the stitches should be secured by your binding.
#13
Thank you -- yes, it's done on a longarm but there's no reason you can't do it on your sewing machine. Would be easy to mark the lines before you start sewing and go at it! You might think it's easier to start each line separately instead of going from one line to the other and shifting the quilt. And after reading Feline Fanatic's response -- made me think. You could do a straight stitch or a decorative stitch in the middle of each key (from the quilt out to the edge). hmmmmm I might try that one of these days!
#14
Here's a link to the quilt I just finished with piano key borders. You can barely see what I did though --- I quilted at an angle starting at the center. Think of an upside down V at the center of the border and work out each way......It's just a small design, don't have to worry about getting the SID exact and doesn't distract from the border itself.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t187680.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t187680.html
Your quilting is beautiful. How do you tie the threads off with all the starts and stops for this beautiful quilting. I have decided I need to move from meandering to a pattern type of quilting. Not sure how to get started.
#16
1) Don't tie off..... start in the area OFF the border and stitch in toward the inner border (or toward the quilt) then stitch down to the next line (stitching in the ditch to get there) and then stitch back out toward the edge off the quilt. You could actually do this in one motion without tying off. I've never done it on a DSM -- so I don't know how hard that is.
2) Rather than trying to explain how to get the bobbin thread up in the middle of a quilt, I found this tutorial....http://doodlequilts.blogspot.com/201...rt-2-free.html
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This is a good idea too. It looks really good amandasgramma
Here's a link to the quilt I just finished with piano key borders. You can barely see what I did though --- I quilted at an angle starting at the center. Think of an upside down V at the center of the border and work out each way......It's just a small design, don't have to worry about getting the SID exact and doesn't distract from the border itself.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t187680.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t187680.html
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