Process question -- when do you think through your quilting plan?
#21
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On some, yes. I think from the start. Others...well, I wonder how to quilt it when the top is done. I think that is how I have several tops not quilted yet. I am waiting for a signal from the quilt top.
#22
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: Tri-Cities, Washington
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For me it depends on the quilt and maybe who it's for. My grown up son likes them puffy with less dense quilting, but if it's for, say, a child it will probably need more quilting. So I guess I let the quilt kind of tell me what it needs in the way of quilting. So I guess I think about it as I go. It's part of the process, and I love it all!
#24
I never know how to quilt my quilts and just kind of come up with something at the very end. I really tend to like my straight lines for some reason and have never had feathers that I like so still trying to come up with a solution for that dilemma. thank you for posting this thread and maybe I will get some ideas here.
#26
It depends on the quilt, and my processes may differ.
Sometimes I work through it when I'm in the LQS looking at fabrics and I can mesh most of it out there, then come home and finalize what I want to do.
If it's a fairly simple quilt, or a "free form" quilt (like a landscape) I'll just jump in and see what happens.
If it's a more complicated quilt that requires math, I use EQ.
the last quilt I designed on EQ took me close to a year to finalize the design (including colors - which changed throughout the project). I finally started the piecing in January and I have a LONG way to go yet. It's DJ with a modified setting.
Sometimes I work through it when I'm in the LQS looking at fabrics and I can mesh most of it out there, then come home and finalize what I want to do.
If it's a fairly simple quilt, or a "free form" quilt (like a landscape) I'll just jump in and see what happens.
If it's a more complicated quilt that requires math, I use EQ.
the last quilt I designed on EQ took me close to a year to finalize the design (including colors - which changed throughout the project). I finally started the piecing in January and I have a LONG way to go yet. It's DJ with a modified setting.
#29
This is why i buy the W&N that only requires quilting every 10"....since i make my own patterns from blocks i've seen, I chose fabrics accordingly. I always leave the actual quilting part thought til last - and then often have to puzzle and puzzle over the best way to quilt it, since I only quilt on my DSM - but the batting choice really gives me so much more flexibility.
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