A little help with my Crappie Quilt would be nice
06-21-2010, 08:14 PM
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Originally Posted by MoMoSews
Where did you get the Crappie fabric? Or did you fussy cut them?
Actually, I could only find 2 embroideries of fish that looked like the real fish but I used the 4D Extra program and turn those two pictures into 16 different ones so they would all be different. In one of the pictures, my DH asked if I could put some sea grass in it, I couldn't find any embroidery that had any that would work but I did find a bunch of carrots with grassy tops. So I cut out the carrots and kept the tops and added it to the fish. The colors were not right either so I also changed them and if I could get a better picture, I could show you that I also used different shades of color in them so they didn't look to much like each other.
Black Crappie with seagrass/carrot tops
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06-21-2010, 08:28 PM
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I think they were trying not to have to explain things but it also might be that they enunciate it differently there as well. I've lived in several states through out my life time as far north as Rhode Island to the south in Texas and I always ran into words that we all say differently.
06-21-2010, 08:40 PM
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I thank all of you for all of your imaginations and I love your ideas about the wavy waters. I think the straight stitching on the star blocks will be easiest for me to do as well. That will also give me more time to practice the wavy stitches before doing it on the quilt. Cross your fingers, and pray I don't mess it up!
Thanks so much!
Sue
Thanks so much!
Sue
06-22-2010, 11:42 AM
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Originally Posted by seasaw2mch
Ok it's not crappy but it is a "Crappie Quilt" that's the name I gave it because it's covered with crappie (type of fish). Anyway, I have sewn all my life but quilting is soooooo much different and I need some suggestions on how to quilt this thing. I've always tied my quilts in the past because that is all I know how to do. But I would so much like to do something a little more like quilted then tied.
I still have to put the boarders around it but this will give you an idea of what is going on at this point.
I still have to put the boarders around it but this will give you an idea of what is going on at this point.
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