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03-05-2011, 03:42 PM

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Gail B

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Thanks for the great tutorial. I will put this on my list of new things to try.

03-05-2011, 04:33 PM

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Originally Posted by judykay

Thanks for the great tutorial, I have always been a fond love of it but never seen it done like this. I have seen it where you have to cut a hole in your quilt and stuff it but never like this where you do it before you add your backing. I have a question regarding the quilting, can I still do hand quilting around the design as I am not good at machine quilting and love to hand quilt.

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Judy

Judy, yes, you can do the whole thing by hand if you prefer. It would be exactly the same steps. First quilting just the batting and the top, then trim, then sandwich and quilt as normal. You could actually just baste the Poly batting down to trim it if you would prefer, then remove the basting stitches after you quilt your sandwich.

03-05-2011, 04:35 PM

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Yup K, those duck bill scissors would be wonderful! These are just the ones I picked up to use.

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Thanks for sharing! What kind of scissors do you have to trim with? Looks rounded on the ends...thanks!!

Those are some by Fiskars that I like for this purpose. Yes, the tips are fairly rounded. I saw some at Wally's the other day, I think for $11 bucks. I paid more for mine but love them.

Brilliant tute! Definitely going to try this! There are scissors called 'duck bills' that would be ideal for this - I was going to get some for a raw edge applique technique I do where you sew an overlap of fabric then trim the top layer back to the stitching line and then couch yarn over this to hide it. Anyway (waffle, waffle :mrgreen: ) those same scissors would be great for this too! Duck bill applique scissors. :D

03-05-2011, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by sharon b

On the first pic ( I think) it looks like you have your FMQ foot on the machine - can you use a regular foot and do it like regular stitching ?

Sharon, If you are doing your trapunto in a straight line, yes, you certainly could. I generally do trapunto work in curved type of designs, thats why I use that foot or even my BSR. For the curvey designs..I think this type of foot would work better...you would drop your feed dogs as well.

03-05-2011, 06:25 PM

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I use your method, and as an extra tip, Pamela Naylor uses two pieces of batting to put into the trapunto shape and when she cuts them, she tapers or steps the cutting, so that when you are sewing the final layer your machine foot is not butting or banging against the edge but smoothly undulates. I will try the graduated method on my next one.

03-05-2011, 07:00 PM

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Got my water soluble thread today. now I just need to start another project for this. LOL

Oh and big tip: you know how you sometimes wet your thread when you thread your needle? Probably won't work as good with water soluble thread. tee hee! :D

03-05-2011, 07:31 PM

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This is a fabulous tutorial. I'm going to give this a try. Word of warning. Be sure you don't get confused what is the water soluable thread and which isn't. Could be bad on the first washing of your next quilt. Thank you so much for the time and thought you put into this tutorial.