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#22
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Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Gilbert, AZ
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I have seen your signature line several times and agree wholeheartedly!
#23
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Maine-ly Florida
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It's fun to read about all of these projects. I'm working on handsewn hexies with a woodsy theme. Not sure what they will become, maybe center blocks for cafe curtains for our cottage. I'm knitting up a storm with Bamboo Blooms yarn using a really simple but satisfying pattern. I'm hoping to make a small car throw for car trips when my chauffeur is hot and I am cold from the a.c. blasting. I may move my small sewing table to a better place so I will be more motivated to use my machine.
#24
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Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Nebraska
Posts: 3,255
It's nice to hear what everyone has in the works.
I am quilting a small baby quilt. It is driving me crazy. I am doing white-thread circles on black background. I am finding it so difficult to keep the circle shape. I used the blue marking pencil that washes out but it doesn't show well enough on the black. I tried chalk and soap but can't get a fine enough line. The disappearing marker disappeared in some areas before I got the circle finished. As I do the circle, I sometimes stop to adjust and when I start again, if I'm not super careful, I get a 'bump' stitch. OMG!
Friend told me to cut some circles from sticky contact paper, stick it on, sew around it and then reuse. Will try that but I am thinking that the needle will sometimes go through the paper and make holes and the edges will become distorted. Your thoughts/suggestions?
I am quilting a small baby quilt. It is driving me crazy. I am doing white-thread circles on black background. I am finding it so difficult to keep the circle shape. I used the blue marking pencil that washes out but it doesn't show well enough on the black. I tried chalk and soap but can't get a fine enough line. The disappearing marker disappeared in some areas before I got the circle finished. As I do the circle, I sometimes stop to adjust and when I start again, if I'm not super careful, I get a 'bump' stitch. OMG!
Friend told me to cut some circles from sticky contact paper, stick it on, sew around it and then reuse. Will try that but I am thinking that the needle will sometimes go through the paper and make holes and the edges will become distorted. Your thoughts/suggestions?
#25
I'm working on a reversible quilt Summer Citrus and Citrus Nights. It is made from Boom 18 block swap, and being done QAYG.
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It will have cross sashing too, just not that far along when the pics were taken.
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It will have cross sashing too, just not that far along when the pics were taken.
#26
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 521
Yes, I think freezer paper would be good but unfortunately I have never seen it in this area. I don't order online and the nearest big city is too far away from here.....not sure I would find freezer paper there even if I did make the trip. I have heard that it is carried in some quilt shops in the area but is very expensive..
#27
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Join Date: Oct 2016
Posts: 521
For a fine white line on dark fabric, I like the ceramic chalk mechanical pencils, like Sewline's, or Fons and Porter, or Bohn. It's like pencil lead, about .7 mm thick. I find that as soon as I am stitching with a high contrast thread, fabric combo, I freeze up and tend to mess it up more often than not (. Clover also makes an iron off white gel type marker that showns up on dark fabric, but I don't use it as often as the fine ceramic pencil. Good luck with your project!
#28
Anne, there are people who use rulers to quilt shapes, you might google ruler work quilting. Circles in one they do often w/ great results. You place your FM quilting foot right against the ruler and keep it against as you go around the shape.
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