I just quilted Flowers with my Walking Foot! I am so happy
05-28-2011, 07:30 PM
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I have a machine that I can't get the tension right to try FMQ, so today I made flowers using my walking foot in 4" squares. I am so tickled with myself since I really want some other design besides SID, or other straight lines.
05-28-2011, 08:13 PM
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Very cool.
It reminded me, on a much larger scale, of Diane Gaudynski's sashiko quilting.
Her sashiko goes for the circle motif, while you're using the flower, but they are both created the same way.
You might want to take a look at it.
Here's her blog post from 2009:
http://dianegaudynski.blogspot.com/2...hiko-tips.html
It would allow you to do the whole quilt in lines rather than turning the quilt numerous times within each block. You wouldn't have to mark a grid because you already have one - the blocks. Maybe just mark the center of the blocks for guidance for each "swoop" in the line.
And, yes, you can continue to the whole quilt with your walking foot.
Just a thought.
It reminded me, on a much larger scale, of Diane Gaudynski's sashiko quilting.
Her sashiko goes for the circle motif, while you're using the flower, but they are both created the same way.
You might want to take a look at it.
Here's her blog post from 2009:
http://dianegaudynski.blogspot.com/2...hiko-tips.html
It would allow you to do the whole quilt in lines rather than turning the quilt numerous times within each block. You wouldn't have to mark a grid because you already have one - the blocks. Maybe just mark the center of the blocks for guidance for each "swoop" in the line.
And, yes, you can continue to the whole quilt with your walking foot.
Just a thought.
05-28-2011, 08:22 PM
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Originally Posted by MTS
Very cool.
It reminded me, on a much larger scale, of Diane Gaudynski's sashiko quilting.
Her sashiko goes for the circle motif, while you're using the flower, but they are both created the same way.
You might want to take a look at it.
Here's her blog post from 2009:
http://dianegaudynski.blogspot.com/2...hiko-tips.html
It would allow you to do the whole quilt in lines rather than turning the quilt numerous times within each block. You wouldn't have to mark a grid because you already have one - the blocks. Maybe just mark the center of the blocks for guidance for each "swoop" in the line.
And, yes, you can continue to the whole quilt with your walking foot.
Just a thought.
It reminded me, on a much larger scale, of Diane Gaudynski's sashiko quilting.
Her sashiko goes for the circle motif, while you're using the flower, but they are both created the same way.
You might want to take a look at it.
Here's her blog post from 2009:
http://dianegaudynski.blogspot.com/2...hiko-tips.html
It would allow you to do the whole quilt in lines rather than turning the quilt numerous times within each block. You wouldn't have to mark a grid because you already have one - the blocks. Maybe just mark the center of the blocks for guidance for each "swoop" in the line.
And, yes, you can continue to the whole quilt with your walking foot.
Just a thought.
05-28-2011, 08:36 PM
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Your quilting is really pretty. I am not good at all with FMQ, so I always do SID.
This is probably a dumb question, but I really need to know. What did you do to make your stitching look like hand quilting? By that I mean, one stitch showing and then space before you see the thread of the next stitch. Is that a special setting on your machine?
Thanks for any tips anyone can give me.
I just got a walking foot, and if I can do something else with it, besides SID, I would really love to learn it.
This is probably a dumb question, but I really need to know. What did you do to make your stitching look like hand quilting? By that I mean, one stitch showing and then space before you see the thread of the next stitch. Is that a special setting on your machine?
Thanks for any tips anyone can give me.
I just got a walking foot, and if I can do something else with it, besides SID, I would really love to learn it.
05-28-2011, 08:49 PM
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Originally Posted by spartan quilter
Your quilting is really pretty. I am not good at all with FMQ, so I always do SID.
This is probably a dumb question, but I really need to know. What did you do to make your stitching look like hand quilting? By that I mean, one stitch showing and then space before you see the thread of the next stitch. Is that a special setting on your machine?
Thanks for any tips anyone can give me.
I just got a walking foot, and if I can do something else with it, besides SID, I would really love to learn it.
This is probably a dumb question, but I really need to know. What did you do to make your stitching look like hand quilting? By that I mean, one stitch showing and then space before you see the thread of the next stitch. Is that a special setting on your machine?
Thanks for any tips anyone can give me.
I just got a walking foot, and if I can do something else with it, besides SID, I would really love to learn it.
To make that flower I made and X on the block to find the center then I drew (freehand) from one corner a curved line making 1/2 the petal and crossed over the center and curved the other way to make the bottom half. Like a long "S" shape. I did that on all 4 corners then sewed the same way I drew it. I stopped at the opposite corner and turned the quilt around and went back to the starting point. You need to repeat that process for the other petals. It took a little practice to make the petals equal, but this is a charity quilt that I am practicing on.
Here is my drawing of what I did..
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