More Unplugged!
October 31, 2006 7:11PM | Filed Under Contemporary Quilts |
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These photos are not much better but they will have to do for now. Besides, as David helpfully pointed out, I still have to do some “quilting do-dads” in the purple centre of the light turquoise block so more photos will be required later:
For those of you who are new to my blog, this quilt was started in my July workshop with Nancy Crow. The hatch quilting is done using the darning foot but still with the feed dogs up:
Because of the quilt’s irregular size and style, I opted for facing rather than binding and used a technique kindly sent to me by Kathy Loomis.
I can see the Nancy Crow influence in this yet it is certainly not a copy of her stuff. Very quirky! (That’s a compliment). The quilting looks very time consuming. What size is the finished piece?
Comment by Helen Conway — November 2, 2006 12:07 AM#
I love how you quilted this! I know there’s Melody Johnson out there saying we can quilt too much, but I personally like heavy thread embellishment! It adds so much!
Comment by Anonymous — November 5, 2006 8:20 PM#
[...] I won’t give you a blow-by-blow analysis of my time-keeping results to date. Suffice to say that, quite predictably, actual quilting time has been minimal and then not especially productive. For example, believe it or not, this is all I have to show for 7+hours of quilting on Sunrise-Sunset: Whereas for Unplugged! I used quilted the lines with a free-motion quilting foot with the feed dogs up, for this quilt I am using the walking foot as I am looking for straighter lines. It has worked well in the centre where there are longer lines of quilting, although I could have perhaps saved myself the bother and just used corduroy for the piecing: The hatching in the background is less successfully executed. As Lisa Call points out, stopping and turning corners is a painstaking process. It would be easier if my machine had a better “backwards” mode. However, the stitch formation when going “backwards” is not as tidy and I can’t see where I am going as the bulk of the walking foot attachment gets in the way: As an aside, when I was considering buying a new sewing machine a few years ago, I took the time to try out several top-end models across a range of brands including: Janome, Bernina, Husqvarna and Pfaff. “Backwards” sewing was an exercise I sampled on all of the machines and none of the models did this well. In the end, I kept going with my Bernina 150QE. If you have better success with “backwards” stitching on your machine, I would be interested to know your secret. [...]
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