http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog/2006/10/31/more-unplugged/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 05:14:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog/2006/10/31/more-unplugged/comment-page-1/#comment-1035 A New Dawn : Serendipity and the Art of the Quilt Fri, 26 Jan 2007 23:34:46 +0000 #comment-1035 [...] 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. [...] [...] 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. [...]

]]> http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog/2006/10/31/more-unplugged/comment-page-1/#comment-373 Anonymous Mon, 06 Nov 2006 03:20:00 +0000 #comment-373 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! 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!

]]> http://serendipitypatchwork.com.au/blog/2006/10/31/more-unplugged/comment-page-1/#comment-374 Helen Conway Thu, 02 Nov 2006 07:07:00 +0000 #comment-374 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? 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?

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