Stippling by hand
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Hi,
It can be done by hand. I did it on a quilt our guild made for a member who was dying of cancer. The quilt we were duplicating had been stippled by machine. Since I do not machine quilt at that level I did it by hand. It is merely quilting very closely in a random pattern. The main objective is not to have the quilting lines cross one another. It was a lot of work and I am glad that the item was crib size. It would have taken me at least 6 months had it been an adult bed size.
It can be done by hand. I did it on a quilt our guild made for a member who was dying of cancer. The quilt we were duplicating had been stippled by machine. Since I do not machine quilt at that level I did it by hand. It is merely quilting very closely in a random pattern. The main objective is not to have the quilting lines cross one another. It was a lot of work and I am glad that the item was crib size. It would have taken me at least 6 months had it been an adult bed size.
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Stippling is just any quilting pattern used densely to flatten an area of a quilt, usually to emphasize the portions left unquilted in relief. It has been done for hundreds of years!
It's a lot faster by machine, of course.... :wink:
It's a lot faster by machine, of course.... :wink:
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