Machine quilting....start in the middle?
#11
Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Originally Posted by KimS
Originally Posted by virtualbernie
Sharon Schamber says if you baste the quilt her way it doesn't matter where you start...
DUH! Never mind ... I was spelling "basting" wrong!! Yeah - had Schambers right - basting was wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA
#12
I start in the middle unless I have block or seams where I can stitch in the ditch in which case after I SID I take out all the pins which lightens the quilt and enables me to do the fancy FMQ in blocks or sections.
#14
Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Originally Posted by KimS
Originally Posted by virtualbernie
Sharon Schamber says if you baste the quilt her way it doesn't matter where you start...
DUH! Never mind ... I was spelling "basting" wrong!! Yeah - had Schambers right - basting was wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA
I did use her tip to starch the backing and I'll continue doing that in the future, but I didn't like her basting method one little bit. I mean it just plain made me mad. :P
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Originally Posted by SparkMonkey
Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Originally Posted by KimS
Originally Posted by virtualbernie
Sharon Schamber says if you baste the quilt her way it doesn't matter where you start...
DUH! Never mind ... I was spelling "basting" wrong!! Yeah - had Schambers right - basting was wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA
I did use her tip to starch the backing and I'll continue doing that in the future, but I didn't like her basting method one little bit. I mean it just plain made me mad. :P
#16
Originally Posted by SparkMonkey
Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Originally Posted by KimS
Originally Posted by virtualbernie
Sharon Schamber says if you baste the quilt her way it doesn't matter where you start...
DUH! Never mind ... I was spelling "basting" wrong!! Yeah - had Schambers right - basting was wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhwNylePFAA
I did use her tip to starch the backing and I'll continue doing that in the future, but I didn't like her basting method one little bit. I mean it just plain made me mad. :P
#17
Originally Posted by virtualbernie
I think it's what you get used to. I've tried other people's methods for doing things that looked a lot easier than what I was doing but I had been doing my method so long it wouldn't work. I think it has a lot to do with muscle memory. I won't even begin to talk about fmq that I've been trying for years to do... :cry: I will admit that I found the longer the boards you use the harder it was for me.
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Originally Posted by SparkMonkey
Originally Posted by virtualbernie
I think it's what you get used to. I've tried other people's methods for doing things that looked a lot easier than what I was doing but I had been doing my method so long it wouldn't work. I think it has a lot to do with muscle memory. I won't even begin to talk about fmq that I've been trying for years to do... :cry: I will admit that I found the longer the boards you use the harder it was for me.
#19
Originally Posted by virtualbernie
It's the same way with knitting... I don't care if picking is faster than throwing, I don't like it and I don't want to get better at it. Excellent attitude, I know, but oh well. :roll:
Ok - I'm a knitter ... what's picking and throwing? I have NO idea which one I am.
Speaking of new methods, once I found that video it led to a few others (you know how that goes) and I found her "magic triangle" method. My one and only quilting friend who live at the other end of a neighboring state tried to explain it to me once OVER THE PHONE and it went clear over my head. now that I see it, I get it. Not sure I like the method as it seems to take lots of time and there is lots of waste as well. But it sure was nice to see it.
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Originally Posted by DogHouseMom
Originally Posted by virtualbernie
It's the same way with knitting... I don't care if picking is faster than throwing, I don't like it and I don't want to get better at it. Excellent attitude, I know, but oh well. :roll:
Speaking of new methods, once I found that video it led to a few others (you know how that goes) and I found her "magic triangle" method. My one and only quilting friend who live at the other end of a neighboring state tried to explain it to me once OVER THE PHONE and it went clear over my head. now that I see it, I get it. Not sure I like the method as it seems to take lots of time and there is lots of waste as well. But it sure was nice to see it.[/quote]
It's the method you use to wrap the yarn around the needle to make the stitch. Some people can knit with the yarn wrapped around their left finger and use the needle to pick up the yarn and put it over. I think it's called the Continental style? It's faster. I have to use my right hand to physically wrap the yarn around--thus throwing. I think once you learn one way it's not easy to do it differently.
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