Hello my quilting friends! It's the final week of our autumn quilt along and I quilting the background with more ruler foot quilting and Sharp Stippling.
,do you struggle with filling up the background of your
quilt?
When quilting the background of any quilt, the #1 thing to understand is just how much space this can cover. Backgrounds are HUGE. This means if you only pick one design, it may take a lot of time to quilt the entire background area.
My favorite way to quilt the background of any quilt is to break up the space into smaller sections. I did this on the Leaf Peepers Quilt by quilting straight lines running horizontally across the blocks and gently curving lines running vertically down the background of the quilt.
By breaking up the background space into smaller sections, I reduced the amount of space I had to fill in the background, and I made the quilt more interesting.
My Favorite Basting Tools on Sale this Week |
Valid through Monday 10-15 |
I save time with basting by using two special tools instead of the usual safety pins. I prefer a special, easily bendable flower head pin which pierces into a self-healing silicon "nugget" called a Pinmoor.
On sale for $38.99, six dollars off the regular price. |
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Moving a Quilt from a Home Machine to a Longarm |
I have a challenging quilt to take on this week. I started quilting a baby quilt on my home machine and now I want to transfer it to my longarm.
I started quilting this red baby quilt a few months ago just to experiment with a few ruler
quilting designs. Then other projects took priority and I folded it up and stashed it in a corner of the Crafty Cottage.
After cleaning out the cottage this past month I found this quilt (along with several others) and decided it was time to get them
done!
Quilting Goal: I’d like to finish the quilting design I established, and quilt it more quickly on the longarm.
One struggle initially with this move is the difference in basting between a home machine and longarm. I have lots of pins and Pinmoors stuck in the quilt surface, which make
the quilt extra bulky on the frame.
Back to Interviews for Last Week's Podcast |
Last week I head the pleasure of interviewing Emily King.
Emily is a new quilter, photographer, wife, and mother and we’re chatting about how she finds balance with creativity and family.
When it comes to balancing
life and all her creative pursuits, Emily and I are very similar. She is not a morning person, but she wakes up early to have a little time to herself.
It was lots of fun to get to know Emily in this podcast and I hope that you will check out her beautiful photos on Instagram too.
Well, that's it for this week! Before we close, I have a quick question for you, . Josh and I have been planning new tutorial series and video classes, but we'd love to hear from you on what you'd like to see from
us!
Let's go quilt,
Leah Day |
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