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Boscobd 09-25-2010 07:37 PM
Not cheating at all. I think it's very creative and really adds interest. I love it!

SharonD 09-25-2010 10:52 PM
No, you can use whatever stitch you like to hold your quilt together. It adds interesting parts to look at on your quilt besides your beautiful blocks.
Well done. :thumbup:

Shelbie 09-26-2010 03:09 AM
I think many quilters do not use all of their machine's capabilities. It's really worth it to spend some time trying out all of the feet and all of the stitches. I made a crazy quilted bag when I first got my new Janome 6500 and tried out all of my stitches. It was a great way to experiment and still have something to show for your time. I know quilters who have never even opened their attachment box and their feet are still in the plastic wrappings. I think decorative machine stitching can add a lot to our quilting and it is definately not cheating just plain smart designing.

quilter1 09-26-2010 03:13 AM
I use them all the time on my quilts. I think they look nice and they are fun to do.

quilt_happy 09-26-2010 03:34 AM
I use decorative stitches. It took me a long time to find my machine with 300 decorative stitches only for the purpose of that.

sewTinker 09-26-2010 04:27 AM
Originally Posted by Lady Shivesa
Originally Posted by sewTinker
I love my machine's decorative stitches. I use them to bind my quilts. I machine stitch it to the back, then decorative stitch it along the edge to the front. This is lovely, btw. :-)
LOVE this idea, sewtinker! Do you have any pics of your bindings done that way? I would love to see how that looks.
Although I have a few quilts patiently waiting for me to quilt them, I only have One of my finished quilts in my home. I give them away as soon as I finish them, it seems... But, yes - I will take a photo later today, and post it for you. If I had to handstitch all those borders,,, yikes. I'm just not a handstitch kind of girl. heh-heh 8-)

cjaye44 09-26-2010 05:34 AM
No way!! That's why the stitches are there..to use.

psquared52 09-26-2010 06:39 AM
I have yet to make a quilt without decorative stitches! I tend to use contrasting color thread as an additional design element to my quilt tops. Sometimes I use a neutral bobbin thread and sometimes a brightly colored bobbin thread. Think most quilt backs are pretty boring. I find people enjoy discovering all the different embroidery designs I use on my quilts. I do use 100% batting which only requires stitching every 10".

ScrapQuilter 09-26-2010 06:44 AM
Not cheating......... your block looks great.

Think quilters use more fancy stitches on Crazy Quilts... but I see no reason for not using as you did.
Great job... maybe this will inspire other to yous fancy stitches as you did.

libbyb 09-26-2010 07:29 AM
If it works good, then its not cheating ha ha. Libby


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