mjpEncinitas

Sometimes. It depends what I"m doing. My two main influences are Angela WAlters and Cindy Needham. Angela hardly marks at all and Cindy marks a lot more.

I just finished FMQ a summer swap quilt. Here's what I did.

I decided to do a different quilting design in all the sashings. The sashings were many different sizes. If it was a quilting a design I wasn't familiar with I marked the first couple repetitions. Sometimes, even with familiar designs I would make a mark every two inches so I would have a spot I could aim for. But for many of the familiar designs I didn't do any marking.

I did some special quilting in a few the blocks using Needham's perfect stencil ( a great great tool). I didn't mark everything but I did mark guide points to make it easier to quilt the design. I have some experience with this tool. When I first started using it, I tried my design out on the practice sheet that are provided with the stencil before I quilt.

I was very happy with the results. I wanted to get the quilt done and this method gave me a lot of practice with a lot of different designs, including a few intricate designs.

I am an intermediate FMQ who's motto is it'll never be noticed on a galloping horse and that's the only kind I ride. Especially for this quilt.


Hope that helps.