My Quilting lesson.
10-27-2014, 08:47 AM
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My Quilting lesson.
I have had my Tin Lizzie 18 for a few months now and havehad some ‘issues’ with learning her pros and cons. I am so used to quilting on my DSM thatLizzie was a whole new learning curve that was throwing me off and frustratingme to no end.I was not happy withanything I did on her and found that I was going back to my DSM to quiltbecause I was comfortable with that medium.
My niece gave me a quilt top to do for her and I am quiteintimidated by the project so I decided Lizzie and I needed to becomefriends. Remembering an exercise that wedid in art class many years ago, I loaded a piece of fleece as my backing and a60 inch wide inexpensive blend (have no idea what the blend is) and juststarted stitching.I did not allowmyself to stop and ‘fix’ mistakes.Whatever I stitched on the fabric, stayed on the fabric.My goal was to learn to relax and enjoy theprocess while practicing some techniques.
I wanted to share this because I know we all struggle withtrying to do beautiful quilting and sometimes it does not turn out quite asbeautiful as we would have liked. Thereare hundreds of places in this piece that I would have called ‘mistakes’ andripped out if I were following my own instincts but I let them go and relaxed,and you know what? Turns out I can’t even find many of them now that it’s allquilted.Now I will have the fanciestmattress pad in town!
My niece gave me a quilt top to do for her and I am quiteintimidated by the project so I decided Lizzie and I needed to becomefriends. Remembering an exercise that wedid in art class many years ago, I loaded a piece of fleece as my backing and a60 inch wide inexpensive blend (have no idea what the blend is) and juststarted stitching.I did not allowmyself to stop and ‘fix’ mistakes.Whatever I stitched on the fabric, stayed on the fabric.My goal was to learn to relax and enjoy theprocess while practicing some techniques.
I wanted to share this because I know we all struggle withtrying to do beautiful quilting and sometimes it does not turn out quite asbeautiful as we would have liked. Thereare hundreds of places in this piece that I would have called ‘mistakes’ andripped out if I were following my own instincts but I let them go and relaxed,and you know what? Turns out I can’t even find many of them now that it’s allquilted.Now I will have the fanciestmattress pad in town!
10-27-2014, 09:02 AM
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You are off to a great beginning. As with anything else, it does take practice. I also have to agree with your statement "...Turns out I can’t even find many of them now that it’s allquilted..." So many times as I'm quilting something I think, well I'm going to have to rip that out, then I usually can't even find it when I go to redo it!
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