How do you quilt with your embroidery machine?
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I also have the edge to edge quilting book and designs. I did a bed runner yesterday as my first project and it was very simple. I really loved her process. She does suggest, however, that you don't do larger than a twin size quilt.
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I've done this same thing. Works better than others that are more intricate for me. But I am still just learning how to do this. Thank you.
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My Brother PE770 will only do a 5x7 design but I have a 5x12 hoop I just used to do a quilt. It worked great for doing the 12" strips. I just used a 6" design and rotated it 180 degrees for the second run. I didn't have to re-hoop to do the second run. This was a design that worked back to back.
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I do it all the time. I do not do quilt blocks but digitize outlines of a design. The sandwich quilt is thick enough and do not need stabilizer. It is hard t times to hoop and at times to line my design up I hoop it while the hoop is attached to the machine. That way I get it to line up.
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]518260[/ATTACH]Japanese Fan (Judy Neimeyer) was 90% quilted using my embroidery machine. This quilt is 109" x 109" and took an awful lot of patience. [ATTACH=CONFIG]518262[/ATTACH] This is to show some of the detail. [ATTACH=CONFIG]518263[/ATTACH]
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Sheri.a, Absolutely gorgeous! Your quilt is a work of art! And I'm noticing a blue ribbon in the background! Was this a paper pieced quilt? I know a lot of Judy Neimeyer's patterns are paper pieced. A large quilt 109x109 would be a trial no matter what they were, but this one is beyond most expectations. Please tell how you made this lovely quilt, and did you hoop each design you quilted. I am so impressed. Thank you so much for sharing.
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Sheri.a, Absolutely gorgeous! Your quilt is a work of art! And I'm noticing a blue ribbon in the background! Was this a paper pieced quilt? I know a lot of Judy Neimeyer's patterns are paper pieced. A large quilt 109x109 would be a trial no matter what they were, but this one is beyond most expectations. Please tell how you made this lovely quilt, and did you hoop each design you quilted. I am so impressed. Thank you so much for sharing.
I purchased 2 digital designs from Judy's website (the top and inner square on each fan), but then had to turn to EQ Stitch to create custom designs for around the star points, the blocks with no piecing, and the border.
there was a lot of trial and error..... Things I learned:
- pay attention to the density and stitch length of the digital design to have a more even appearance
- on the borders The amount of quilting was more towards the inside than outside so I ended up with wavy borders
- I struggled with tension so I used a bobbin holder with low tension
- the judge commented that I had too many thread stops on the back
- I made a sampler quilt (6 blocks) to practice designs. It was cut down and bound to go under our TV - I couldn't throw away all of that work!
- each hooping took around 20 minutes, so I had to stay focused to keep it from becoming a very expensive UFO.
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