Long Arm Question
03-03-2022, 05:57 PM
#13
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Join Date: Aug 2020
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I think your plan is a good one.
As for the white feathers - they will have texture with the white thread, if you're looking for a sharper contrast, then you might consider the soft gray thread that someone else suggested.
Personally, I would do the white because you don't want something dramatic that will draw attention from the stars??? Or maybe you do? Your choice!
As for the white feathers - they will have texture with the white thread, if you're looking for a sharper contrast, then you might consider the soft gray thread that someone else suggested.
Personally, I would do the white because you don't want something dramatic that will draw attention from the stars??? Or maybe you do? Your choice!
03-04-2022, 02:16 PM
#16
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Massachusetts
Posts: 1,097
I have a longarm. When I was learning I asked the sales person the best way to handle your question and she said she always worked everything across a quilt and then rolled to next section. I've always done it this way and don't have problems with wrinkles from rolling back and forth.
As someone said it's a toss up between changing thread colors or rolling and re-rolling. I go with the thread changes making them as painless as possible(last color worked on last row is first color used on next row, etc). I find the rolling forward and the steps involved more daunting than thread changes.
As someone said it's a toss up between changing thread colors or rolling and re-rolling. I go with the thread changes making them as painless as possible(last color worked on last row is first color used on next row, etc). I find the rolling forward and the steps involved more daunting than thread changes.
03-04-2022, 04:38 PM
#17
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: The Deep South near Cajun Country, USA
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I love your quilt and the humility block is just perfect. Lots of people do the squares and then quilt other details in. I don't really care for that. Seems to make it too busy. I'd just go with the feathers if that is what you want to do. Having said that - doing an echo in the stars themselves and doing feathers in the rest of it could be very attractive..
