Ready to quilt, but how?
12-17-2011, 05:45 PM
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My first suggestion is if your a novice at FMQ is to practice more until you are more comfortable with it before you quilt the actual top. It's a very pretty piece, and pieced well too!!
So get some scraps out and start playing with FMQ! Practice the same stitch over and over and over until it's in your "muscle memory" and becomes 2nd nature to just "do it". Once you have that one stitch down pat, then you can practice another (providing you need to learn two immediately).
As for quilting that lovely topper ... I would stiple the light fabric and SID outline the dark. Or visa versa.
So get some scraps out and start playing with FMQ! Practice the same stitch over and over and over until it's in your "muscle memory" and becomes 2nd nature to just "do it". Once you have that one stitch down pat, then you can practice another (providing you need to learn two immediately).
As for quilting that lovely topper ... I would stiple the light fabric and SID outline the dark. Or visa versa.
12-17-2011, 05:51 PM
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12-18-2011, 06:22 AM
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First it is lovely and I would like to know the pattern, as you are a novice, go to daystyledesigns.com and watch her videos, remember we all start somewhere and nothing is perfect, as far as quilting I would echo stitch the designs, go slow and you would not have to fmq that just a straight stitch to get you use to following the pattern.
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