dtreusch Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 I have a french braid customer quilt I'm working on for the AQS show here in October. My customer wanted longarm style feathers in each top/bottom section of each braid going toward the center. There are 8 sections together, each one 12" by 34". I decided to use something similar to the wave feather border in Sherry Rodgers book, Fancy Formal Feathers. My problem was how to mark the feather spines and containment on the large sections of the quilt and keep each section consistent without spending hours making a template, stencil or using Golden Threads paper. Here's where Pre-Design and some Sharon Schamber techniques come into play. The pictures that follow show what I did to solve this problem. Debbi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtreusch Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 I first took a picture of the practice page in Sherry's book. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtreusch Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Then I imported the picture into Pre-Design to trace the spine and containment lines. I traced just one section of the border from the picture and tweaked it to fit the quilt. I put 3 sections together to get one braid section and printed this out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtreusch Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 I taped the sections together and trimmed it to the exact size of the braid section. Now my problem was how am I going to get this marked onto the quilt since it was pretty flimsy. Here's where Sharon Schamber comes in. I used her techinque of creating templates for piecelique. Since I need to stitch the braid reversed, I took a thick black sharpie and traced the lines on both sides of the paper. Then I ironed the entire design between 2 sheets of freezer paper. Now it's stiff enough to use for marking the quilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtreusch Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 The last step was to trim away sections of the template so I could mark the spine and feather containment lines on the quilt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MtnBarb Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Very good. An ingenious way to make it all happen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dtreusch Posted July 10, 2008 Author Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 The entire process was accomplished in about 20 minutes and I am so pleased with the result because I can mark each braid section very quickly now and they will all be consistent!! :cool: Best of all, with the design now in Pre-Design, I can use the same technique to create the same template in a matter of minutes to fit any size I need to quilt. I'm a happy camper now!!:P:P Debbi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Well well... congratulations, Miss Smarty Pants! Joking aside, that's great and thanks for sharing your idea and the directions, too (and the shameless plugs for Sherry, Sharon, and of course, Pre Design, which Loes & Theo wll appreciate). I am sure this quilt will be stunning, as all of your quilts tend to be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loes Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Debbi, That is just a wonderful combination of ideas/techniques! Love it! Oooh <dreaming, eyes closed> to be named (well Pre-Design that is) in the same line as Sherry Rodgers and Sharon Schamber makes me very proud Loes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 yeah another way to use my predesign! That gave me some good ideas for a quilt I'm getting ready to mark. Thanks for sharing Debbi! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekah Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 How very very clever. please post a picture when you are finished with the quilt and thank you very much for sharing (with pictures) of all your techniques. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skrat Posted July 10, 2008 Report Share Posted July 10, 2008 Debbi, What a wonderful idea. I'm gonna keep this around to use. Thank you for sharing your excellent planning too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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