Hi ,
Last week you asked for it, so now it's Quilty Box time!
First, a quick note on how I put this month's project together.
Tracing was needed, so I used marking pencils from my Mark Your Quilt Kit, which consists of a Fine Line pen that is water soluble, and Fons mechanical marking pencil, which is excellent at marking medium to dark fabrics with a thin, bright white mark. The ceramic lead will stay in place while you're quilting, but easily erase off with the included eraser.
Mega Pinwheel with Quilty Box |
Messing around with Minky |
This week I've been playing with Minky fabric on the back of several quilt sandwiches and I love the effect.
I really enjoyed quilting with Minky fabric. Honestly it was a lot easier than I expected. I've been intimidated by Minky for years,
but once I got it basted up it really wasn't hard to quilt over.
The hardest part was cutting the Minky fabric which made a huge mess! At the store, the clerk cut it and ended up with red fluff all over her shirt, the table, and the floor. I felt bad because I had no idea Minky was such a messy fabric to cut.
I shoved it deep in a plastic bag and warned Dad that it was going to be a big mess so we were both prepared. We ended up cutting it with masking tape and that significantly
reduced the mess. The other thing to consider when quilting with Minky is your quilting design and how that will effect the fluffiness of this fabric. After looking at all of my samples I didn't really like this thread effect on the back of the quilt. I would stick with open designs that don't involve any travel stitching like Stippling, Matrix, and Ocean Currents.
Do you like large-scale, mega blocks? Would you like to see a video workshop featuring giant blocks? I would love to hear from you! Please let me know either by replying to this email, or joining our quilting Facebook group where you can make new quilting friends all over the world.
Until next week, let's go quilt.
Leah Day |
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