Comfort Quilt
11-16-2015, 03:57 PM
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Comfort Quilt
This will be given to a co-worker who is recovering from donating a kidney to her husband.
I had other coworkers sign fabric and included that in the ribbon around the ballerina.
This is the first quilt I did using the Pro-stitcher for quilting different sections. After I did that, I went back and FMQ to fill in areas.
I had other coworkers sign fabric and included that in the ribbon around the ballerina.
This is the first quilt I did using the Pro-stitcher for quilting different sections. After I did that, I went back and FMQ to fill in areas.
11-16-2015, 04:24 PM
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I used several different ideas for this quilt. The ballerina is a pattern I bought and downloaded, but the rest I made up as I went. I've seen the ribbon like that used in borders, and figured it would work well with the signature blocks, and the dips are on a picture of a quilt pattern offered by Connecting Threads that I saved from a couple of years ago.
I used quite a bit of freezer paper ( I have a roll of unwaxed stuff for drawing) to get the angles and placing correct. I kept thinking I really need to open up my EQ7 and learn how to use it! Probably would have been easier than doing all the math (but I do like math!)
Thimblebug - The design software to run the LA is pretty neat. One uses the machine to plot out the area, and then you select a design and squish and stretch and rotate (and all sort of fun) until it fits like you want. The inner border took over an hour to set up as I had to combine corners and rows and then crop off parts to get it to fit.
I know I could have FMQ some feathers way quicker than setting up the computer to stitch it, however I am trying to learn how to do the computer part. It also came with Art and Stitch, but that is another one I've not looked at yet.
I used quite a bit of freezer paper ( I have a roll of unwaxed stuff for drawing) to get the angles and placing correct. I kept thinking I really need to open up my EQ7 and learn how to use it! Probably would have been easier than doing all the math (but I do like math!)
Thimblebug - The design software to run the LA is pretty neat. One uses the machine to plot out the area, and then you select a design and squish and stretch and rotate (and all sort of fun) until it fits like you want. The inner border took over an hour to set up as I had to combine corners and rows and then crop off parts to get it to fit.
I know I could have FMQ some feathers way quicker than setting up the computer to stitch it, however I am trying to learn how to do the computer part. It also came with Art and Stitch, but that is another one I've not looked at yet.
11-16-2015, 05:34 PM
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Cathy, this is beautiful! Have you taken any classes on the Prostitcher? I don't have one but recently an HQ educator came to a LQS to teach and the ladies raved about the Prostitcher classes!
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