Due to a glitch my first meeting report disappeared so this post will just be about Show and Tell and all the non tutorial events and discussion. I will post all the tutorials directly to the Tips and Tutorials Page in the near future.
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| Here is Leng's pretty donation comfort quilt which she has named Square Dance. |
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| Leng's hand made label with a little hand embroidered heart. |
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| Note the interesting edge to edge quilting. This is an easy walking foot pattern that works with lots of different blocks. You can mark your quilting lines with the edge of a plate, lining it up from corner to corner or just quilt a gentle serpentine curve from corner to corner, sewing one curve on the upper block and pivoting to the lower block at the intersection. When you get to the end of a row turn the quilt around and sew back in the opposite direction. |
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| Quilting lines as seen from the back of the quilt |
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| Detail of the boder quilting--free motion loop de loops |
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| Nancy's scrappy Plus Sign quilt. Note the offset rows for a more interesting layout than a completely symmetrical grid. |
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Detail of quilting that Nancy did with her mid arm quilter and ruler work. And if anyone still thinks machine stitched bindings are less polished looking than a hand stitched binding have a good look at Nancy's perfectly applied binding on this quilt. Clicking on the photo will give you an enlarged view.
I think Nancy will have to do a post on her fab low volume backgrounds which we've seen on two of her quilts now. Nancy, where do you find your prints, what is your criteria for choosing them, do you have a stash of them, etc.? The ones you used in this quilt are different than those in your links quilt. |
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| Arlene's finished quilt. Nancy kindly volunteered to finish off the quilting on this beautiful quilt. She also unpicked all the unfinished hand quilting in the sashings and erased the pencil lines. This will be a gift to Michi at a future get together, probably in September. We will be visiting Michi at her new care home and having a little party to celebrate Joyce's birthday as well. Joyce will let us know the date. |
Finally we'd all like to wish Marybeth and Leng happy travels and look forward to seeing some photos--maybe even some posted to the blog.
Thanks Pauline. I've been collecting "low volume" fabrics since I joined the MQG years ago - (after I found out what they were). Basically a light fabric with small motifs or designs which read as a solid from a distance. It's a pretty loose term and I has changed over the years. I find Moda fabrics makes a nice selection of them and yes, I do have quite a lot of them, but am using them up slowly. I've also found that buying them in pre-bundled packs of fat quarters gives you a nice variety.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Nancy. I have a drawer full of what I call "low volume prints" but they have a much different feel to the ones that you have in your collection. Yours includes a lot of bright colours in the print part. The use of low volume prints preceeds the MQG but they definitely defined the term. And I see what you mean by it being a loose term and what is included in that category has changed over the years. I think my whole collection is comprised of things I pulled from my stash which means none of them were bought with that purpose. I guess over time you have just developed an eye for what works as far as the amount of blank space vs print but it looks like you can mix in a lot of colours for a more dynamic background. It took awhile for the MQG to throw out all the rules but there's no stopping them now. They've taken quilting in a very exciting direction.
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