Need some background filler quilting patterns

I've used stippling, pebbles, bubbles, bananas, headbands, vine and leaves, scrolls, fern and everything else I can find. Does anybody have a website with just background fillers? I'm about to do grids out of desperation and really don't want to go there on this quilt...

On a side note, I have managed to buy a new sewing machine that comes already possessed- just like the old one was possessed. This one seems to be possessed by good spirits instead of evil ones, tho. I saw Diane Gaudynski's bananas quilting pattern and could NOT draw it on paper to save my soul. I tried and tried and just couldn't get it. I started to mq one secton of my horse-pital quilt with McTavishing and it ended up being a bananas pattern! I had no idea my new sm could do that! How nice..... LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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Leslie, I don't have the web site you're asking for, but I did want to say that your experience with pencil/paper, as opposed to thread/needle isn't all that unusual. When I took a class from Kathy Sandbach a few years ago, I had the same problem. I couldn't draw a feather to save my life. She took pity on me and told me to go ahead and start quilting. It worked! I just can't draw. LOL!

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Sandy-

Thank you! That's good to know.... if that sm has a mind of it's own, then I don't have to worry about patterns. It'll just do what it wants to any way. VBG But now I'm back to the same problem. I wouldn't mind buying a book, but I'm concerned if I spend the money it might not have what I really want. I have Quilting Makes the Quilt. I thought it was a fantastic book when I bought it- the quilting awed me. But now it's kinda ho-hum. That's not the direction I want to go with my mqing.

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Leslie, didn't you say you had one or another of Karen McTavish's books? She has some flame-like background quilting patterns, as well as some she calls "cyclone" and some filler feathers.... Those are in _Mastering the Art of McTavishing_.

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Taria-

I just ordered that book from WalMart. Their shipping is only 95 cents and their book price was one of the lowest I found. Thanks for the recommendation- that relieved some concerns I had about ordering a book sight unseen.

Leslie & The Furbabies > James just bought me Quilting Possibilities Freehand Filler Patterns

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Yep, Sandy, I have The Art of McTavishing. I did pretty well with the flames in a practice piece, but I have lost the knack! I just tried them again on my scraps and I can't do it. Maybe if I wait a few days my sm will learn them??? LOL

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Leave the book out beside it overnight! Give it a chance >g< . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

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Thanks, Pat, excellent suggestion! My tiny little sewing room is such a mess I don't know if the sm would even notice the book laying there... maybe I'll just clear a space right beside the needle. Or would the other end of the sm be more effective??? LOL

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Had to laugh, I'm really good at bananas too! and can't draw. But can FM pretty well, some of the time, since it uses the whole arm and not just wrist and finger movements. Try doing whatever it is in an unaccustomed direction, like doing flames sideways. Sometimes it helps. Roberta in D

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LOL! I know *exactly* what you mean! I couldn't do flames, either, until one day when I was trying to quilt a mini that just needed them. Then it worked -- don't know if it would again, though. :S

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Prop it up, leaning against the machine.... ;)

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I doubt it Pat. I parked my piece of crap car next to a Lexus at a restaurant yesterday hoping it would learn good manners. I don't think it worked. I'm pretty annoyed at my vehicle....not to mention my washing machine, dishwasher....and who knows what else. My sewing machines are behaving themselves though. That's always a good thing!

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Hi Leslie, do you know this site ?

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Heidi-

That website seems to have gone missing. Darnnit! Do you have any others? (wishful thinking!)

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Great reply, Kathyl >gg< . In message , KJ writes

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sometimes it behaves, sometimes it disappears ?? When I got the link first, everything worked ( don't know if the link was posted here ). When I just tried it, the link worked. And no, I'm sorry, no others... B.t.w, good tip with the water-soluble thread. As I don't have some, I'll better stop mq-ing now :-) Heidi

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How did you order the book from Wal-Mart? Online? In the store? I'm interested in getting one too! Thanks.

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Thanks, I ordered one also. I saw it at the Lancaster Heritage Quilt Show yesterday for $10.00 more than Wal-Marts price!

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