Marking fabric - Page 3

> That's beautiful, Bobbie. Thanks for sharing.
> The small project I'm doing right now is based on a Welsh pattern. The
> Welsh historically "butted" their edges instead of binding them, which
> looks really pretty. The Welsh also preferred longer stitches than the
> tight quilting we prize now. It just goes to show you, there's more than
> one way to make a beautiful, beloved quilt. "More than one way to skin a
> cat," as my mom would say.
> I've read a lot of stuff about some quilters load their needle with
> several stitches and others use a "show stitch" where the needle just
> punches up and down. I'm learning that I might as well use the stitching
> style I've used for for decades for my other needlework. Despite the fact
> that I'm right handed, I am used to having my right hand under the canvas
> (now, the quilt) and my left hand on top. I wear my thimble on my right
> ring finger, and I punch up and down. I'm quick this way -- as quick as I
> think I could ever get with loading my needle or changing my hands. I'm
> used to making even, neat stitches a lot more complicated than a running
> stitch this way. And I've been making my end knots the same way I do for
> embroidery and mending, but with a longer tail to crawl up into the
> batting after I drag the knot in. Whatever works, I figure. And I'm set
> in my ways. I propose to follow your example and do whatever I'm
> comfortable with and like the looks of.
> ep
>> Edna, most all the bed quilts I've made have been the very simple
>> checkerboard blocks, or rectangles surrounded by a plain color. My
>> cereal box template squares start at 4" and go up to 12". I also have
>> 1/2 squares in some sizes and also rectangles. I haven't gotten bold
>> enough to make the other type quilts. The bed quilts you might see on
>> "Little House on the Parrie" look "fancy" compared to mine. But my
>> quilts are loved and used---even the scrap quilts. I also have made the
>> panel quilts for cribs and simply birthed them, or just sew the edges
>> with the serger. HTH
>> Barbara in SC
>>>I thought I'd try my hand at making my own templates out of some plastic
>>>I had lying around and an exacto knife. To quote the immortal words of
>>>another quilter here in another context: "I'd rather rope goats." And
>>>the result is awful.
>>> It looks to me like the easiest way to mark fabric is to mark it before
>>> I quilt it, using a light box (or, in my case, a glass table-top) to
>>> trace the design on the fabric. (Unless, of course, I'm using
>>> store-bought templates, which seem to work pretty well.)
>>> What say you? (I apologize for re-covering ground that has doubtless
>>> been covered a zillion times before, here.)
>>> EP
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> nobody knows how you made your stitches.

> > nobody knows how you made your stitches.
> LOL - reminds me of Julia Childs as she picks a chicken up off the floor:
> "Nooobody knooows what happens in the kitchen."
> ep

> Prehaps you mean the Freezer Paper instead of the plastic Press N Seal. The
> plastic will melt if you try to iron it.
> Barbara
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