Pam Pollock

Glad you decided to join in. It's always nice to share your quilts with other quilters. Everyone here is very supportive. There are always lots of good ideas & links provided by people who have shared their finds. Welcome & enjoy! :D

jbsstrawberry

Hi lisae from lisam :D I'm so glad you're here!

ania755

Welcome aboard....I promise you that you will love being here....Even the cat will be happy...(they like quilts).. :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

2 Doods

Nice to "meet" you. Hope you will post some pictures of your work. Glad you joined us!

AAAAh....Santa Cruz...fond childhood memories there! :D

fabuchicki

Rah! Rah! Banana Slugs!

lisae

Yes. One of the 'joys' of the cooler months is seeing a banana slug crawling across my back porch. In all, seriousness we really like living here.

Tiffany

Hi Lisae and welcome. We've bumped into each other in a few of the threads. How is the machine quilting coming? I love to hand quilt but I have a few quilts that are about 14+ years old that are still waiting to be hand quilted. They are resting on a rather large pile of tops that are finished but not quilted. :oops: I finally decided I needed to learn to machine quilt just because it is so much faster. I figure soon hand quilting will be so rare I will be able to make a living hand quilting other people's quilts. :lol:
~Tiffany

newquiltertoni

Hello and glad you finally joined us. Can't wait to see your works.

lisae

I know what you mean about hand quilting becoming rare; when I go to quilt shows only a small percentage of the quilts are hand quilted.

My machine quilting is coming along slowly. I've quilted about five baby quilts and a lap quilt for myself. In the ditch or cross hatching is easy enough, but free hand quilting is hard for me. I'd like to be able to stipple(or meander) stitch well, but it always turns into spirals. They look okay but, I want to be able to do what I set out to do.

I just finished the tops for two more baby quilts and will start machine quilting them next weekend. I got backing and batting yesterday.

Tiffany

I sat down and marked a 14 inch square of muslin in the stipple pattern, sandwiched it together, and used that to practice with when I was teaching myself to stipple quilt. I then practiced on a few practice blocks before trying it out on a real quilt. I'll admit I did occassionally still cross over myself but it wasn't very often. Starting with those practice pieces, especially the first one where I drew it out until I was used to the motion of stippling, it really did help. If you have any extra muslin lying around, give it a try and see if that helps keep things from turning into spirals. :thumbup:

You know, I have to admit I have done a few pieces using the stipple technique and I have to say I don't like it. I feel it makes the quilt too stiff, especially if the stipple is too closely quilted together. It works great for pieces that are going to be hanging on the wall but for baby quilts I will never use the technique again and wish I hadn't used it on my grandson's quilt. With all the baby quilts you do, if you are like me and feel baby quilts are supposed to be cuddly, you may not like the stipple technique for them either. Just thought I'd give you a heads up. :wink:
~Tiffany