Good Morning, Fellow Quilters
02-23-2011, 02:25 PM
#14
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Grand Junction, CO
Posts: 1,452
Welcome from Western Colorado! Keep practicing your free motion quilting, you'll get better and better! Relax and have fun with it, I found, after MANY years of free motion quilting, that using quilting gloves helps immensely. They give you so much more control of the quilt. I also try to originate the motion from my torso instead of my hands, it seems to help to keep the stitches more consistent and it's much less tiring.
02-23-2011, 02:34 PM
#15
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Victoria, Australia
Posts: 408
Welcome aboard, you will learn so much from the many people on the QB. I have. From practicing with sheets, blankets etc... purchased from op shops for the free motion quilting.
I like the sound of dhanke experience, " I also try to originate the motion from my torso instead of my hands" can get exercise while sitting down also. Great :thumbup:
I like the sound of dhanke experience, " I also try to originate the motion from my torso instead of my hands" can get exercise while sitting down also. Great :thumbup:
Originally Posted by dhanke
Welcome from Western Colorado! Keep practicing your free motion quilting, you'll get better and better! Relax and have fun with it, I found, after MANY years of free motion quilting, that using quilting gloves helps immensely. They give you so much more control of the quilt. I also try to originate the motion from my torso instead of my hands, it seems to help to keep the stitches more consistent and it's much less tiring.
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