409 Quilting Techniques with Linda V Taylor

well hello there today i will be showing you how to add side borders to a log cabin quilt and showing how quickly you can add designs with a computerized machine i am so excited to show you the project i'm working on today it is a log cabin in a barn raising design and it has trees and cabins on it and a beautiful piece in the middle that's a landscape design and so the first thing i want to do is make it larger and i only need to add fabric on the sides quite a bit of fabric about 20 inches on each of the sides to make it the size of the for the bed that i need so i want to show you how to do that using the long arm machine and then i will stabilize the entire quilt down to the other side of the border and then add that border and the reason that i need to stabilize and stitch in the ditch around all of these designs and go around the applique is so that i have a nice flat quilt and then i can go and do the designs anywhere that i want to on that quilt so let's get started this has been loaded with just the backing fabric and of course it's wrong side up and i'm going to put my batting on all the way up just kind of over there i just want plenty of backing and batting and then i will measure i'm 20 inches i'm adding about a 19 inch border so i'm measuring 20 inches down and moving my machine over to that point and i will set my channel lock and just stitch a line across the quilt so i know exactly where that's going to be this will give me a good reference line so i will be able to bring the top to that line and i always put the extra batting if the batting is extra wide i'll put all of that extra batting at one end so i only have to cut the extra batting off at one end so i'll just trim off the extra batting along this one edge of the quilt i don't have to trim them on both sides now i have put the top up to the reference line and you could do a lot of pinning along here i'm just going to make sure that i'm right to the edge of the reference line and then you could baste or you can stitch along that line now i'm i've laid the border fabric right side together with the quilt and i've laid it right next to that edge of the top and so i just need to stitch here all the way across and i'm going to come down about a quarter of an inch and just make sure that that's right set with the edge of the top you could use your channel lock when you do these if you want to okay now i'm just going to pull the border fabric up like that and i will move the quilt down so i can stitch along this edge now that i have added that border onto the side of the quilt i need to place a design in it and i don't want to do something complicated i just want a pantograph i'm going to choose one of my designs which is called feather meandering and i'm going to place it in this border using my computerized machine however you could easily use a pantograph pattern if you don't have a computerized machine so it's going to look really great i love that blue thread on the black fabric that turned out really nice now i'm ready to begin the stabilizing process and i know stitch in the ditch isn't the funnest thing to do but it has to be done in order to have your quilt really flat in those areas so that you can add those designs so let's get started on that and i want to show you how i've been stabilizing between the lights and the darks i've also been doing a design a greek key in this little red area just putting my ruler right up there next to my seam and i seem to be able to do the horizontal seams just wonderfully by hand so i just go across but you could also use your ruler take your time on stitch in the ditch now i'm going to stitch all the way around this red square when i get back up here to the top i'll be coming in about a quarter of an inch because i have to remember that i want to come back out of this greek key and when you go into the middle kind of go over like that come back and now i'll start coming out like this you could practice that on paper a little bit to make sure that you knew what you were doing and then when i get back over here this is where i left off and so then i just continue stabilizing between the lights and the darks all the way through the quilt and i decided that the blocks of the trees and the cabins i would just leave those open because i will need to change thread when i come back the blocks with the trees are about eight by eight and that's small enough to just stitch around the outside of the block and leave it for stabilizing right now and again between the lights and the darks here's a dark the blue and then the light area i stitch in the ditch between those areas and the cabin is also a block so i left it because i will want to come back and go in and stitch stabilize it with brown thread and i can also stitch it at the same time if you're looking at this as blocks you can see that i did not stitch across this light area nor did i stitch across the dark area in the blocks because i want to leave this light area open and this dark area open to put a different design in and treat that as one area again that's in that barn raising design but i did stabilize between them and oftentimes people will just do this much quilting and and leave it but of course we're going to come back and do some fantastic designs as part of the stabilizing process once i got down to the bottom of the quilt i went ahead and added this border with the long arm machine on the bottom and i have stitched the design into the edge to edge design into the border so now my quilt can be rolled back and forth without any problem and i'm ready to start the design work in the blocks there is a piece in the middle that has some applique on it it's just machine appliqued but it's a really neat scene with mountains and the bear and the trees so as i was coming through to leave this big of an area unstabilized would have been too big so when i came through the first time i went around a couple of mountains and came through like this now i'm going to come through and finish going around this little mountain here like this just come down here like this and i'm coming over to the bear because now i want to use my applique helper he's got a lot of curves there and so i will use my applique helper to go around him staying just outside of the bear i will put some quilting on him later but i do want to stabilize around him and it's so nice to have that left hand helping stay exactly where i want to be around this applique there we go well that completes the stabilization so we've added the two borders and we've stabilized the entire quilt and i can't wait next time we'll be able to do all of the design work in those different areas it's going to take a while to do it

Channel: Linda V. Taylor

Views: 565

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: quilting, longarm, shortarm, quilt, rulers, techniques, gammill

Id: esEr1dvFmEA

Length: 9min 44sec (584 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 18 2021