Inspired again, so quilt is finished, now for the wedding
08-26-2012, 02:36 PM
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I am not good at fmqting yet, but I tried a bit on this one. I used my Janome 6600P stitches to do some fancy stitching around the black borders and I stitched in the ditch to anchor the quilt before I did anything. It is not heavlily quilted but I was tired of constantly sewing on it by the time it was finished. The binding is even put on by machine and a computer stitch was used on it. I won't do hand sewing if I can escape it. That's why I have a machine that will take layers of quilting and sew something nice on it.
08-26-2012, 02:43 PM
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flybreit: I literally loved this when I saw it posted by "Delta" so I printed out her post and set out to count the small blocks, larger blocks, the rectangle blocks, etc. Then I figured out how may "red" to do, and how to do the heart like hers. She told me to download the templates for "storm at sea" and go from there. I used my printer to make enough templates to paper piece all the blocks and put it on a design board to keep track of where I was on the project. I watched a video on ytube about paper piecing so I understood that part. My biggest problem was cutting pieces big enough to work with the paper piecing. It was certainly "learn by doing process" I always go by patterns, so this was out of my comfort zone. But I REALLY wanted to do it.
I'm 'talent challenged' - can follow a pattern or block layout but....so how do I know how to modify the blocks to get this layout?
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