Quiltingboard Forums

Quiltingboard Forums (https://www.quiltingboard.com/)
-   Pictures (https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictures-f5/)
-   -   Tortilla Strips quilt 3 years in the making (https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictures-f5/tortilla-strips-quilt-3-years-making-t310881.html)

copycat 05-13-2020 03:27 AM

Every quilt has a story and I enjoyed reading about yours. It was worth the wait for you to complete your gd quilt, as you gained so much wisdom on how to quilt it...fabulous quilting designs. I love love love the rose label and how you printed on the stem.
Thank you so much for sharing your quilt story. Your Gd is going to be over joyed to see it!

Dina 05-13-2020 05:00 AM

That is one great quilt!!! Wow is all I can say, just beautiful! You are clever, creative, and a great grandmother!

Dina

FabQuilter 05-15-2020 12:51 PM


Originally Posted by copycat (Post 8385121)
Every quilt has a story and I enjoyed reading about yours. It was worth the wait for you to complete your gd quilt, as you gained so much wisdom on how to quilt it...fabulous quilting designs. I love love love the rose label and how you printed on the stem.
Thank you so much for sharing your quilt story. Your Gd is going to be over joyed to see it!

Thank you!
The dedication on the stem looks printed but it is actually embroidered. At first I used a script fancy font in purple thread but it looked too Victorian and the quilt has more of a contemporary modern look so I opted to redo w a close to a typewriter font in black thread.

the way I did it is cut (on the bias”) a 3” wide strip of fabric, placed stabilizer on the hoop and floated the strip to embroider it in 2 continues parts till I fit in the text.
I then trimmed it to the width of the stem w text centered and placed a wonder under 1/4” strip to help temporarily placing it. The bias cut allowed it to easily curve the stem.


QuiltnNan 05-15-2020 04:02 PM


Originally Posted by FabQuilter (Post 8385758)
Thank you!
The dedication on the stem looks printed but it is actually embroidered. At first I used a script fancy font in purple thread but it looked too Victorian and the quilt has more of a contemporary modern look so I opted to redo w a close to a typewriter font in black thread.

the way I did it is cut (on the bias”) a 3” wide strip of fabric, placed stabilizer on the hoop and floated the strip to embroider it in 2 continues parts till I fit in the text.
I then trimmed it to the width of the stem w text centered and placed a wonder under 1/4” strip to help temporarily placing it. The bias cut allowed it to easily curve the stem.

this is really terrific. Will have to remember that for a special quilt

FabQuilter 05-17-2020 02:56 PM

Thank you I am glad you liked it.
Happy quilting


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 10:34 AM.