Well obviously with this craze going on, I too wanted to try
my hand at this but for months I’ve just followed post and read what others
said, think and had trouble with. So the
first thing I noticed from many a post was that with this quilt you needed to
start from the centre and work your way out.
Not a big issue on a domestic machine but on a frame somewhat
trickier. So I tried another ‘new to me’
thing. I basted the whole panel before
having to move it back and forth on the frame.
The second thing I did was to mark the centre on clear
plastic as this seems to disappear when on a frame and you don’t know which
line to follow. The clear plastic was to stay near the frame for me to check
regularly.
Even before that though, I made my own Chenille strips in
all the colours contained in my panel, ready for use.
These strips were then cut apart. I used 2 fabrics per
strip, one colour and one white.
I used my square foot for the first time stitching the
strips to the quilt top. I wouldn’t say
it is a necessity but seeing that I have it, I thought I might as well try it.
Then the tedious job of laying out the strips, glue basting
and stitching these onto the quilt started. I kept forgetting to unpick my
basting stitches but it wasn’t too much of an ordeal.
With all the strips done I decided to zip the quilt off the
frame and take a photo of it as it might just not go any further than
this. Then at least I have something to
show that I tried. A good thing this
photo taking turned out as I saw a spot that I forgot to put a strip on.
I had to change feet and make use of That Purple Thang once
I started the free-motion quilting just to see where I’m going and to move the
chenille strips to the side.
I am still not sure if all of this will result in
anything. What I do know however is that
I want to use this as a practice piece for different quilting motifs and
definitely does not only want feathers in every petal.
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