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How do you audition a quilting pattern on your quilt?
Just watched some ideas on the Golden Threads website and found the videos informative and fun to watch. You might like them too. Helped me to see ways to 'audition' designs right on my quilt ......good applications and ideas. Here is the link:
http://www.goldenthreads.com/howtouse/
Enjoy!
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I use clear tablecloth fabric that I get at JoAnns. I pin my finished quilt to the design wall and then pin the clear cloth over the whole quilt. I use markers that are for white boards. I can try different designs and if I don't like them -- they just wipe off. When I have a design I like, I take the clear cloth to my light table and create stencils - from cardboard boxes--to transfer the markings to my quilt. A good wipe all over with a paper towel and some spray cleaner and my clear cloth is ready for the next time.
Works great and is not too expensive. Leaves more cash in the purse for fabric. Betty Ann in Sunny Florida
It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter
That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived !
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Originally posted by bettyannseemanI use clear tablecloth fabric that I get at JoAnns. I pin my finished quilt to the design wall and then pin the clear cloth over the whole quilt. I use markers that are for white boards. I can try different designs and if I don't like them -- they just wipe off. When I have a design I like, I take the clear cloth to my light table and create stencils - from cardboard boxes--to transfer the markings to my quilt. A good wipe all over with a paper towel and some spray cleaner and my clear cloth is ready for the next time.
Works great and is not too expensive. Leaves more cash in the purse for fabric. Betty Ann in Sunny Florida
I also sketch on plain paper, and then draw motifs out on paper. sometimes it takes me days to draw out something I like.
I'm just quilting a challenge quilt for the guild that is fairly small. I used freezer paper to make a pattern for it, and then doodled on the freezer paper pattern to find out how to quilt it. I look at Margo's computer renderings and stand in awe!
Kathy
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Originally posted by kathyst2Originally posted by bettyannseemanI use clear tablecloth fabric that I get at JoAnns. I pin my finished quilt to the design wall and then pin the clear cloth over the whole quilt. I use markers that are for white boards. I can try different designs and if I don't like them -- they just wipe off. When I have a design I like, I take the clear cloth to my light table and create stencils - from cardboard boxes--to transfer the markings to my quilt. A good wipe all over with a paper towel and some spray cleaner and my clear cloth is ready for the next time.
Works great and is not too expensive. Leaves more cash in the purse for fabric. Betty Ann in Sunny Florida
I also sketch on plain paper, and then draw motifs out on paper. sometimes it takes me days to draw out something I like.
I'm just quilting a challenge quilt for the guild that is fairly small. I used freezer paper to make a pattern for it, and then doodled on the freezer paper pattern to find out how to quilt it. I look at Margo's computer renderings and stand in awe!
Kathy
The tip about the blue painter's tape is REALLY important, because those dry-erase marking pens do NOT wash out!!
It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter
That Tells What Kind Of Life You Have Lived !
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Originally posted by bettyannseemanThe blue tape sounds like a great idea. I hope you didn't learn the hard way about the need for the boundry. Betty Ann
I just finished the quilting on the challenge quilt, having drawn out the sketches for the quilting on the freezer paper pattern.
We just had a little earthquake here, epicenter a couple of miles from the house, so I'm trying to settle down and concentrate on the binding.
Kathy
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Originally posted by MargoKathy, please don't be too awe-struck! What I do is really simple! I find it faster to do a small scale sketch on a photo of the entire quilt than try to work at full size during the early design stages.
No more shaking here so far. I saw that there was a small earthquake in Alabama too today, so I guess I won't be able to get away from them no matter where I go :cry:
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So you know where the commands are! I just think it's easier to "draw" with the pencil instead of the mouse when auditioning quilting lines. You just need to select the pencil tool or the straight line tool, choose the width of your line and a color that will show up on your quilt photo and you are ready to draw!
It's Not What You Gather, But What You Scatter
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Y'all are miles and years ahead of me and have such great ideas! I'm just a baby entering the 'quilting' part of the project having done ALL of my quilts by hand prior to this and doing very simple 'fluffy' minimal quilting. I'll probably eventually do heavier quilting but for now I'm really just learning in the phase of visualizing the design on that part of the quilt and figuring out how to do something other than 1/4 inch on the small pieced parts! ha
TQS is such a wonderful resource! Thanks bunches for all the ideas. JoAnns is only 2 miles from my house. ha ha ha
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Originally posted by QuilterLynnY'all are miles and years ahead of me and have such great ideas! I'm just a baby entering the 'quilting' part of the project having done ALL of my quilts by hand prior to this and doing very simple 'fluffy' minimal quilting. I'll probably eventually do heavier quilting but for now I'm really just learning in the phase of visualizing the design on that part of the quilt and figuring out how to do something other than 1/4 inch on the small pieced parts! ha
TQS is such a wonderful resource! Thanks bunches for all the ideas. JoAnns is only 2 miles from my house. ha ha ha
I'm probably at the same spot with hand quilting as you are with machine quilting. Just learned to make the stitch, now to practice, practice, practice. Isn't it wonderful?
Kathy
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If you have EQ7 (or probably even an earlier version would also work), you can use it to help you decide on quilting patterns. I have just been doing that with my Geisha quilt, which has really been hard to decide what to do with it. At first I tried to print the stencil blocks (it comes with a nice set, but I also got Quiltmaker Quilting Designs) and found they just spread apart. But if you
1) make a "new quilt" with 1 to 4 blocks and no border
2) turn off the option that prevents you from filling the blocks with the stencil blocks and try stencils out until you have the one you like
3) rotate them until they work together
5) print a sheet to check it
6) then you can either cut the Golden threads paper into sheet sizes and print them through with a regular sheet of paper or trace onto the Golden Threads paper to audition on your quilt and subsequently sticky dot it on with one of several products that are not harmful to fabrics and quilt it.
You can then use that to audition on your quilt. Here are a couple of examples:
I rejected this one.
I am using this one.
My 7 year old grandson loves to take the paper off after it is stitched (just a hint if you have some children around that might enjoy helping)
"Neglect not the gift that is within you..." -1 Timothy 4:14
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