Hand Quilting With Large Stitches
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hand quilting with large stitches
Hi Cindy, yes indeed , sometimes big stitches just add to the overall design.I use thicker thread or floss. There are no rules when it comes to your artistic work --- and NOOO police either. Love Letty.
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Oh my gosh, I am so glad to see this post. I hand quilted my GS's "Out in the universe"quilt with all different sizes of circles to mimic the planets. It was to big to do on my machine and sending it out was not an option, but I am not a pretty stitches hand quilter. Tried many times, can't do it. So the stitches were about 4 to an inch and as even as I could manage. It looks pretty good and I know he will love it but I had this sneaky little guilt feeling that they weren't 8 or 12 to the inch. Hooray for big stitch quilting. Now I can feel better about picking up that needle and playing some more. You guys are the best.
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: Arkansas
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I have done some sashiko stitching and it is very precise and not necessarily large stitches. I really love the big stitches in certain applications and consider it as important to learn as small, tiny stitching. I am wondering how if I could use it in a tee shirt quilt. mmmm.
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This is the solution to my problem. I need to finish a Mickey Mouse quilt for my DGS and don't have time to send it out to my LA and can't FMQ. I can hand quilt though and the big stitch will look really cute on this one. Thanks to all of you for bringing the idea to the forefront!
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I did a lesson in "Big Stitch Quilting" and we all loved it, it was easy and so nice to be able to do something by hand. The effects were great and the only "rule" was to maintain stitch size, didn't matter what size as long as they were even. As a matter of interest we used Perle cotton from http://www.threadart.com/c-283-pearl-cotton-thread.aspx beautiful quality.
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