veg-girl Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 This is quilt number 3. My first was all over squiggles, my second had circles done with rulers. When advancing the quilt take side stretchers off first because if you forget and walk to the other end of the frame to release them as the quilt is moving you may not get back to the off switch before your machine stops moving and you tear a hole in the quilt. (in the UK our motor advance has an on/off switch on the motor not a foot pedal.) You can mend the hole (sort of) but it is difficult with a 7 year old top and no spare fabric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg-girl Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 I\'m not very good at stitch in the ditch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg-girl Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 But it did improve when I raised the cover plate over the thread cutter with extra washers so that my ruler no longer got stuck on the rim of the extended base which made the stitching very jerky Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg-girl Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Feathers need lots of practise, don\'t use contrast thread, it shows every glitch and you can see clearly that they look more like wavy leaves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg-girl Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Blendin thread is better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg-girl Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 And now with rulers I can do motifs, but I do get in a terrible tangle with the rulers , my hands and the top bar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Hey, very nice job. feathers are coming along, love the meandering on that background fabric, and the blue diamond design.. is that a cowboy hat, an asian gal with poney or pigtails, or?? I still love it.. the combo is just right.. Keep it up! RitaR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg-girl Posted January 11, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 And this is the whole quilt, sort of egyptian theme in the fabric, done as a round robin by 5 or 6 of us, borders were rather wavy as the whole quilt is borders, but it was a good practise piece. Used Soft and Natural batting which has quilted up a bit stiffer than I would like but then it does have a lot more quilting than I used to put in . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmquilt Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 The whole quilt it is beautiful. I love the colors. I really like that motif in the diamond. And your stitch in the ditch turned out great once you solved the problem. You feathers are coming along nicely!!! Michele Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
michelleslongarm Posted January 11, 2008 Report Share Posted January 11, 2008 Wow only your third??? That is great...you are jumping in there. I just finished my first with stitch in the ditch and it isn\'t easy. I\'m using a ruler but I still get wiggly lines. Love the quilt!! Michelle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltermidwife Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Yvette You have really progressed well with this your 3rd quilt. How very encouraging for all us other newbies. I hope I might get to see you and your machine in action soon. Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeriGirl Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 You are doing great. I am trying to learn the SID process and find I do better without the ruler as my hands do not know where they should be! I just follow the ditch nice and slow. Give us newbies a year and we will be amazing. I am still just drawing feathers, feathers, feathers and would not even attempt them on a quilt. You did great. Keep up the good work. Newbies should be called PPP\'s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 You did a grea job. I think you hid the mend very well. The quilt is beautiful. Very good!! Keep it up and keep posting pictures, we love them!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chickenscratch Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Yvette, If you don\'t like that quilt I\'d be happy to take it off your hands. Girl, that thing is beautiful, and your quilting is coming along nicely. You are doing just the right thing, trying stuff and making note of things that do and do not work. By summer time you\'ll be entering competitions. Oh, by the way, I think EVERYBODY has a hard time doing SID Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewlinzi Posted January 12, 2008 Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Looks like things are coming along nicely! Glad to see you making learning curve notes to yourself:P It\'s so easy to make the same daft mistakes again and again. The trick is not to tell anyone about them - apart from your APQS friends - most non-longarmers think what we do is pretty clever so we might as well let them carry on with that opinion! LINZI x Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veg-girl Posted January 12, 2008 Author Report Share Posted January 12, 2008 Unfortunately I\'ve been whingeing to all my classes about my struggles with longarming, they have had a blow by blow account of all my mistakes. I know I\'m a bit of a perfectionist when working for others but I have made quilts for lots of customers including the fabric manufacturers ( Makower and John Kaldor in particular) and I have always been fast , accurate and competant. To suddenly find I am back at novice stage has been a shock and sadly I don\'t have as much time as I would like to practise. But I am getting there, if not as fast as I would wish. How do people become good enough to rent time on these machines? They must need to practise a lot before they start on their own quilts. Off to Claudias next week where I hope to gain lots more tips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobbi Posted January 13, 2008 Report Share Posted January 13, 2008 Yvette: If this is only your 3rd quilt, you\'re awesome! It\'s beautiful! I\'ve been working on this since September \'07 and some of my stuff still looks like a little kid.... and like you, I was always soooo good at this stuff! I look at it as if it\'s a new job... the learning "curve" is a bit steep sometimes, but it\'ll flatten out soon! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qltdia Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 I hope I am doing this right. I am brand new to all of this and just bought a used Ultimate I just before Christmas. I have been quilting on my domestic for years and love it. I found your post very encouraging that you could do this by your third quilt because the learning curve is pretty extreme, but I am reading and doodling and playing on the machine every day, so hopefully I will get up to speed. Maybe someday I will even have the nerve to put a real quilt on my machine..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Yvette, I think you are doing great! Keep at it! I like to see us all just going for it and learning as we go...that\'s the only way it happens...make mistakes, take chances, don\'t be afraid and that\'s how we learn. OK some things from my recollection from the seasoned quilters like Caron and Sherry Rogers Harrison regarding stitch in ditch: Try using monopoly thread in the top and a blending or neutral thread in the bottom? Also, turn your stitches per inch up to the highest it goes when using your SR and you get more control with the ruler work and SID. Give that a try. I just loaded a top (my guild\'s raffle quilt) that will require a lot of custom quilting and lots of SID which is good and gives me some practice, too. I\'ll share photos when I\'m finished, but I just got it loaded so will be at least a week before I\'m done with it. Anyway, good job on that quilt and keep going, you are getting the technique down! Please share more photos of your quilts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgene Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Yvette (veg-girl), I think I love you. This is so special to share your progress and let us all see that us other newbies are not the only ones not quilting perfectly yet. Thank you, thank you, thank you. You say you are a perfectionist, but as long as you have the ability to laugh at yourself you will live a lot longer than the perfectionist whose afraid to let anyone see their mistakes. You are special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lsilver Posted January 15, 2008 Report Share Posted January 15, 2008 Good start! Longarm quilting is definitely something that takes practice and your expectations may be from what skill set you already have. This is another. You will conquer... and believe me, you learn something on every quilt! Keep up the great work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmyhogan Posted January 18, 2008 Report Share Posted January 18, 2008 Great Going Yvette! I\'ve had my Millie for 17 months and I\'m still trying to learn to do feathers the way I would like. Some people just have the talent. I like your choices of quilting in the different spaces. Using the rulers does get easier with practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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