It is ok (and encouraged) to take some creative liberties by deviating from the fabric patterns.Quilting with a thin thread such as Aurifil 50 Weight on a busy printed fabric, greatly helps to disguise any stitching imperfections! Any stitching wobbles will be better disguised if you use a matching color that blends in with the print!.Some designs required only outline stitching, while others involved more intricate pathway planning! As I approached each new block, I looked for ways to capture and/or enhance the circular designs. Once all the stitching in the ditch was completed, I moved from block to block, drawing inspiration from the backing fabrics for my quilting. The quilt sandwich was turned over so the pieced backing was facing up. White (#2024) Aurifil 50 weight was used for all the piecing, quilting and top-stitched binding. Magic Trick Revealed-Fun Quilt Back with Lots of Pattern! Once I started looking through my stash, I was surprised by the range of design possibilities! The quilt back was a simple 6圆 grid pieced using 5" charm squares representing a variety of patterns, scales and combinations! I simply turned to my fabric stash for quilting inspiration! For this particular stitch sampler, I looked for prints/batiks with circular designs that reminded me of pebble quilting and variations. Yes-you read that correctly-zero marking was required for any of these designs!! Keep reading to learn my magical secret.įree Motion Magic Without Any Marking!! (Finishes 28" x 28") Not only am I thrilled with the fabulous quilted textures, but stitching the motifs was surprisingly simple and easy to complete without the use of any marking pens or even my trusted blue painter's tape! Feel free to re-blog, share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.This past week, I started and finished a fun new Wholecloth Quilt that yielded 36 fun, new free-motion quilting motifs. PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and is intended for personal use only. So if you’re one of the many people who has trouble with Stippling or Meandering…you are NORMAL! Just move on… there are so many choices… Whereas instructions like: Stitch amoebas, don’t cross over, wiggle…are much more difficult to follow. Stitch a half circle…we can all follow these directions….(especially when there’s a photo to go with it!) Instructions like: Start on the bottom line, stitch straight up. Here’s the reason: Our brain works fastest when we tell it what we SHOULD DO, not when we tell it what NOT to do… Whenever one of the little Tykes started running on the wet pavement (very dangerous)-the life guards were instructed to shout “WALK!”… They didn’t shout “DON’T RUN!”… When my daughters were in high school, they were all life guards at our local swimming pool. Stick with me a minute…while I share a story… REALLY? No wonder so many beginners get frustrated and quit Free Motion Quilting! “Stitch a wiggling, meandering line that doesn’t cross itself.”.“Stippling is closely spaced, random quilting lines that do not cross and are gently curved.”.I did a quick Google search of how to stipple and here are some of the descriptions and directions: Now, I know many of you like these stitches, and it’s nothing personal…it’s just that every beginner is told to “just stipple”… As I have mentioned many times, I want to Ban the Stipple quilting stitch and it’s larger cousin, the Meander stitch.
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