Quilting Ideas for a scrap quilt
#11
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All over cross hatching is easier to do on a domestic machine than a LA. I do ruler work for SID and some background fill cross hatching but it is a chore to do it all over on a quilt and unless you mark in advance it is really easy for your lines to stray of the straight and narrow, even with a ruler.
#13
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If you want to do it a little fancier than just stitch in the dtich or cross-hatch, try:
1. using the walking foot, quilt 1/4" from each seam line (both sides)
2. if your machine have a serpentine stitch (a wavy line) stitch in the ditch with it
1. using the walking foot, quilt 1/4" from each seam line (both sides)
2. if your machine have a serpentine stitch (a wavy line) stitch in the ditch with it
#14
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Greenwood, AR
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This isn't what I call stitch in the ditch, looks like what I call echo quilting 1/4" from the stitch line...I like that look!
#15
Ideas for quilting scrap quilt
Mariah.
P. S. When I don't have much time, I tie my quilts and comforters, and they seem to make a hit.
Mariah.
#17
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I have made dozens of baby quilts that size, and larger and I use either a straight stitch or a slightly elongated zig-zag stitch sewing across the squares diagonally. I haven't mastered FMQ, but on even simple 9-patch blocks I quilt across the squares and I like to use a pretty rayon thread, sometimes variegated, simple quilting, but the rayon thread gives it a little jazz.
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