How many use stencils to mark their quilts?
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How many use stencils to mark their quilts?
After being totally frustrated trying to do FM feathers, I purchased a few stencils.
What a difference!! I realize this is an extra step to FMQ but it looks great.
Just wondered how many do this?
What a difference!! I realize this is an extra step to FMQ but it looks great.
Just wondered how many do this?
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I do, for sure. Have a bunch of them from the Stencil Company because I started buying them from their booth decades ago at the Houston International Quilt Festival every year.
Jan in VA
Jan in VA
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I finally have learned to do feathers to my liking. Not sure which videos I watched but one day everything clicked. I just purchased Cindy Needham's 'Ultimate Stencil' set to do draw straight lines on my fabric. What ever helps is worth the price. Happy feathering.
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I use stencils, I hand draw designs, I've even printed designs on paper and pinned the papers to a quilt and followed the printed designs. I do whatever I need to do to get it quilted how I want it.
Cari
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I have a few stencils and love using them. When I have a center square in a block I like to use a stencil for a pretty free motion motif in the square. I don't do "free hand" free motion quilting so this is a perfect solution for me to be able to do something besides just stitch in the ditch.
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i do. i make my own most of the time from pepper cory's quilting designs from the amish, but i have bought a few. fmq and i are getting to be friends, but i love cables and structured, traditional quilting designs. i always gravitate back that way.
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