Please don't send the quilt police
07-15-2013, 09:00 AM
#11
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If it is good enough for the pros, why no the rest of us? Stacy Michele has many videos showing her doing it all by machine and many are even quilt as you go. Do whatever is good for you and tell the quilt police to kindly move on down the road.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU5p5zvyRA0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lU5p5zvyRA0
07-16-2013, 02:51 AM
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My position has always been "if our great great great grandmothers had[ had sewing machines, they would have used them too" I say go for it.QUOTE=ArtsyOne;6177947]I don't see anything "wrong" about using modern methods to do a traditional quilt. Can't wait to see your results - Hawaiian quilts are on my to-do list too![/QUOTE]
07-16-2013, 04:56 AM
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That is just beautiful. I love it.
I've done a lot of (cut work) applique- I love the technique and play with it often- I do machine stitch *use fusible* and machine quilt them- never had anyone complain- in fact our guild a few years ago had a workshop with someone who put out a whole book of (Hawaiian applique) designs- and she taught folding and tracing onto either freezer paper or fusible web & either needle turn or machine applique techniques. here's one that is all machine done.
07-16-2013, 04:57 AM
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[QUOTE=Misty's Mom;---hawaiian quilts --- has anyone made one and quilted it on the machine? Or, is anyone planning to do this?
I have one that after many starts and stops, running out of background fabric, trying substitute fabric to finish, finding the original fabric at Mary Jo's in Gastonia, ripping out substitute, etc, etc, have finally finished all the Machine Applique and it is ready to go on the longarm. Yea! (Soon as I decide how to quilt it. I want something more than echo.) Doors are locked so quilt police cannot get at me!
I have one that after many starts and stops, running out of background fabric, trying substitute fabric to finish, finding the original fabric at Mary Jo's in Gastonia, ripping out substitute, etc, etc, have finally finished all the Machine Applique and it is ready to go on the longarm. Yea! (Soon as I decide how to quilt it. I want something more than echo.) Doors are locked so quilt police cannot get at me!
07-16-2013, 05:33 AM
#20
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It is your quilt and if anyone complains that you did it by machine tell them to get some fabric and a pattern and they can do it what ever way they want. If it is the quilt police ask them to mind their own business and ask them to leave and not come back.
Last edited by judykay; 07-16-2013 at 05:36 AM. Reason: spelling error
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