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I didn't know you could iron oil chalk and set it. Will it wash out? I like your piece. I keep trying to see if there is an image in there but I don't - just almost see a running horse - maybe moving through too fast to get a good image. I love the randomness and the color. The stitching looks great. I must have taken a lot of time to make.
People also do this kind of heat setting with Shiva Oil sticks (which are actually oil paint in stick form and are formulated differently than oil pastels) and I've seen reports where people say that setting those in this manner allows the quilt to be washed with no harm to the painted areas.
As a lover of vintage and antique machines, you may be interested to hear that I used my mid 70's Kenmore 158.1914 machine to do the rattail binding. It's the best machine I've ever found for doing that type of binding!
Rob
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Thanks quiltingshorttimer. The quilt is currently on display at a local gallery, but I'm going over there on Friday evening for the opening of the show that it's in and I'll try to get a good closeup then.
In the meantime, if you have a track pad like the ones on some laptop computers, you may be able to expand the picture by placing your thumb and forefinger close together on the pad and then opening them out. That works on my machine and allows me to see close-ups of most of the pics posted here on QB. I'm not sure if that can be done with a machine that uses a mouse instead of the trackpad.
Rob
In the meantime, if you have a track pad like the ones on some laptop computers, you may be able to expand the picture by placing your thumb and forefinger close together on the pad and then opening them out. That works on my machine and allows me to see close-ups of most of the pics posted here on QB. I'm not sure if that can be done with a machine that uses a mouse instead of the trackpad.
Rob
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