What's Under My Needle Today - January 30, 2019
Friendship Rings in 30's fabrics with custom quilting.
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What's Under My Needle Today - January 26, 2019
This is another episode in the Big Foot series. For this one, I minimized the amount of custom quilting to show that it can be done while still giving the same custom effect. On this one, the edge to edge continues over the trees and trunks and only Big Foot is outlined and custom quilted. To make this feasible, I went 1 or 2 shades darker (but still in the light gold family). The darker thread makes the quilting stand out more on the background and less on the trees and trunks giving it a similar feeling of texture. That light gold would have still been neon on Big Foot so I did not continue the edge to edge across him and gave him some hints of hair in brown. We didn't want him densely quilted and stiff so I made sure the density was just a bit more (due to the smaller areas to fill) than the background. Anything is possible!
What's Under My Needle Today - January 24, 2019
Since I'm doing a lot of custom work this week and it takes longer, let's do something different today. Let's answer 2 questions: What is custom? and Why does it have such a big range for the price? What is Custom? Custom means simply that different areas of the quilt are treated differently. It can be as little as 2 areas, the quilt center and a single border. It can be hundreds of different areas if each square or triangle is quilted differently. A quilt leaves the world of edge-to-edge and enters the world of custom when you have one area that you simply cannot quilt the same as the rest. This can be due to high contrast where 1 thread will not work on all the fabrics, 3D elements like flanges, or wanting to have an area be puffier than another. With the quilt above, we entered the world of custom because Big Foot would just get lost if the background design was quilted over the top of him in a light color thread. The background would then be more dominat
What's Under My Needle Today - January 20, 2019
More beautiful batiks. I'm glad to be back from our trip and quilting!
What's Under My Needle Today - January 5, 2019
Members of the Cumming Sunset Quilters all worked together to use up their strings for charity.
