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Pictures of leaf quilting
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Looks great!!!!!!
One of these days I'll get the courage to try to do some actual quilting... instead of mostly piecing! You did a GREAT job!
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Cool stuff, Kathyl.
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I see why you are so pleased with yourself. That's beautiful.
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What a lovely pattern - and so nicely executed, if I may say so!!. A great use of a continuous line technique - cleverly thought out. So pretty. . In message , KJ writes
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Thanks! I am usually glad to be done but disappointed in my work. This is the exception. I don't draw well, so unmarked free motion just doesn't work for me....too many thought processes going at once...drawing, foot and hand speed, and manipulating the quilt so I don't get hung up. I think I've found my answer.
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Once in a great while, the planets line up and things go splendidly. :-)
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Your quilting is beautiful as is the quilt! I love the how the colors and shades work together.
Steph
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They look great, well done!
Anne
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That looks great, Kathyl!!
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What a pretty leaf pattern- I like it! And I couldn't help but notice how beautifully even your stitches are. You did a great JOB on the quilting. I like the entire quilt as well- great color choices and the extra stars are just right. WOOHOO!
Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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I think my stitches were even because I didn't have to think about where I was going. Plus it was on a border so there wasn't a lot of quilt to manipulate under the machine. I'm not sure what you mean by the extra stars. Are you mixing up the quilts in that folder? I have a blue Hunter's Star there that comes after the quilting designs. But the quilted leaves are on the Arboretum quilt
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Yep, I got it all inside out and backwards. I meant to compliment both GORGEOUS quilts. Sorry for the confusion! I surely do admire your stitches!
Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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so what was your marking method?
Anne
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I traced a commercial quilting pattern on Golden Threads paper, sewed through it with my unthreaded sewing machine, then used an iron off chalk in a Pounce marker to rub across the bumpy side of the perforated pattern to mark the fabric. I had a longer description of this under the Subject "I'm having fun!". It worked great.
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ahh, spotted it, given you only used the paper to mark, not to quilt through, I'm thinking you could have used any paper you happened to have lieing around?
My problem is following lines, so I've tended to dedicate my time to free hand or partially marked patterns, though a problem with my sewing machine has meant I've barely done any since Christmas, it ended with the store giving me a new sewing machine 10 days ago. I did try quilting with it and it appears to be fine, but I finally got all the fabrics I wanted for a project I've been planning for a while, so I've spent this week piecing. I also find quilting is more troublesome on various bits of my body, but I really need to put some time into it and get some finished, if only to free up pins for basting others!
Anne
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Yeah, any paper would probably work. If you matched my quilting to the actual pattern, you could see I didn't exactly follow the lines either. But I kept the general shape and spacing by using the lines.
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I still haven't acheived that balance of following the lines sufficiently to get a desirable result, instead I end up with little jerks here and there as I try to get back on the line. I did a simpler leaf border than the one you used very satisfactorily without marking in the summer, I had bought a template and my practice results were much worse with the template than just attempting to freely draw the same thing!
Anne
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Wow! Kathyl, you did a *great* job on that! Your quilt stitches look so even and nice -- I wish I could do that well without a BSR.
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I was cleaning out magazines today and found info on the Golden Threads paper in one of them. The article said to draw yourdesign on one paper....pin up to 15 pieces of the GT paper together and stitch through w/o thread in the machine to make a pattern to quilt thru. Then pin each piece on the quilt and machine quilt.
I do have the pounce gadget and that sounds simpler as I really didn't care for sewing on the paper. Thanks for the info !! Mary