Combining Quilting and Embroidery Quilt Designs

well hello today we're going to look at combining quilting and embroidery Anita Shackleford is here to show us how we can draft feather designs and use templates to feather in any space we'll also talk about auditioning patterns where you can preview your patterns before you start stitching so stay tuned Linda's long arm quilting is aired free to you by gamal quilting systems vision to innovation taken to the next level my stitch my vision my gamal if you know me you know I love to feather when in doubt feather but if you're not used to freehand in your designs that blank space you want to fill in can be a little intimidating you may want to do a little planning ahead and design work before you start and Anita Shackleford is here to share some great tools and methods for doing just that welcome Anita hi Linda thinks it's a treat to be here well I feel so honored to have you on the show a world-famous quilter and I know you think quilting for a few years in 37 years 37 years and only 29 I don't know how you do that but I know that most of your most of your wonderful award-winning quilts have been hand quilted that's right you're known for that hand building and applique and and I also know that you've done machine quilting and now I know this is going to be a big announcement here I think it will be yes you've become newly long-arm quilters that's right brand new brand new so and welcome to the long arm quilting world thanks I know I'm going to enjoy this that's great so now you're using all the tools available that we have technically should and I'm actually having fun combining hand quilting with machine quilting in the same quilt using what works best in any situation mm-hmm so I've got a template here that helps me draw some feather designs and we'll work with that and draw some things okay get some basic shapes going on takes a couple of basic tools and for the beginning yes a ruler is a good one a pencil is a good one we'll get a little deeper in a minute there are several designs that we draw that are based on lines that radiate from the center they're symmetrical and radiating from a center and so I like to start with a grid line and the first one is going to be a horizontal line like this okay and then I rotate that ruler right and if we're working with any of our standard cutting rulers they have a grid relying that up we can draw our vertical so we get our perpendicular right cross lines nucular so four drawings a basic design like this pinwheel I'm going to pick a feather I'm gonna set it on that first line you can see I've already got one in here mm-hmm how did you know which feather do have to you know it really doesn't matter it depends on the size of the spaceship Phil and also the shape these all have different shapes to them so I could pick any one okay okay I'm going to set it with the point touching the center Center mm-hmm and I'm gonna draw that first feather okay before I move that I want to mark where my positioning lines are and I can draw right on the tool that'll erase off later okay then I'm gonna rotate that and line up those positioning marks oh and let me switch to a pen because I think that'll show better here and we'll do a second one okay rotate again boy those marks do come in handy don't think yeah the positioning lines reference lines are always good so that's going to give me four feathers that are how I say see evenly spaced the number of feathers before you start you just go ahead and get your basic ones in for a pinwheel I'll just have four like that so that's a neat shape and actually if we rotate that to be in a square the fits really well and that would be easy to quilt to that's a good one starting if you can hit the center every time you got it made beginners distress right now a second shape I like pretty well I call a rosette it's feathers again but with a little center with the circle flower center yes and that's that's a Welsh design see that in in Welsh quilts we're gonna do the vert the horizontal line and rotate and do the Verde critical and I might pull in one more tool the protractor you remember this from tenth grade or whenever we did that oh yes I'm gonna add a line in between which is my 45 okay so if I mark a 45 out here and I do that right here with a protractor and then I'm going to mark on the same distance on the other side of this line that every your Center and drawing a line if we once we know our angle we can draw to the center and then straight out the other side right it's the same angle on the other side so we're all set with that now I've chosen this time the same number five feather and you already had actually my guidelines are on there yeah now this one is still touching in the center here okay but I'm not going to draw through just a circle yep just touching your circle I want to rotate this counterclockwise I want to put my Center touching again lined it up with you making sure that I'm drawing the full side of the feather not the concave side I want the full shape of the feather out here and I'm drawing that just till it touches okay the shoulder of the previous one this feather is one that you'll see in my quilt that I called hunter square oh and I used it it's kind of an English medallion and so I thought this worked pretty well in that quilt oh that's beautiful I'm going to get these all done they have kind of a they're either a Welsh design or a pop 60s one of those flowerpower things but a perfect design effort and because we're marking the angle radiating from the center the design is evenly spaced the feathers are evenly spaced around so here's an example of a pinwheel that I expanded I did the center one and then I added some and it's behind me a different shape it really gives it kind of emotion there doesn't it so we can enlarge it and make it more complex but based on the same drawing style this one a variety of rosettes we can change the size of the center circle we can choose feathers that touch overlap a little bit as they go around or some of the narrower feathers that they don't have and those would be easier to quilt those davonne are machines anyway that's right you don't have to retrace them you know by hand I can do anything yes I know you can machine we'd like to not be retracing so much so all right I think a feather wreath the classic feathery thiz one we all love and we should just put those every place now what what happens here is because the center circle is larger the feathers are pushed away from the center we need more feathers oh we need more feathers so I'm working at the 90 degree the 45 and then I split that again another one so on my protractor that's at 22 and 1/2 degrees okay now I want the feather to touch the wreath of course mm-hmm so it sits out here the point of the feather touches the center circle okay and I can put that any place as long as you put those reference Laden sometimes on a wreath it's a good idea to draw the circle a part of that you'll see that would be here we hope so again I'm going to draw the first feather and I didn't finish it out I've got dotted lines here because that's where I'm probably going to have an overlap here so again I'm going to rotate this just go to the end one yep just draw those right around the piece and so we'll see how quickly I can do this so we have really a classic look there some variations we can do on that might be feathers inside also mm-hmm that's fun and again as I see so much oh yeah these one of the quotes that you brought that's true and that's true my hunters square again has a has a actually a double it has a double feather within a double-double feather that's right and so I was referring really large like this hmm and then again if we're looking at at machine quilting we might quilt like this where we can draw plan that the feathers will be at a measured degree so that they're separate from each other I've got another little idea here I love feathered hearts and these kind of designs I think are easy because they're symmetrical side to side we only have to draw half of it these have no radiating lines they're really just drawn by eye and because I can see through the tool I can just say I think the next feather belongs there and then as you work your way up sort of cross your fingers and hope that you know that's right if you do any yep and then I can put one there and just say just connect that yep oh that's and then I wouldn't draw that little part so then I just fold that in half and trace it to the other side mm-hmm and so this one I quilted into my quilt that I call Welsh heart because of Welsh design has that flowy look again so you can see this is how much I drew mm-hmm and then just fold it over copied it to the other side yeah so hearts over those are exciting that's great how do we get these these designs onto our quilt that's right I've got some fun things in here you know in in the years past of course women were working with templates and they might have yes that's an old cardboard I have several of those I think it's fun to collect those and of course those were traced with a pencil trace it right onto the quilt top mm-hmm this one an early idea what we would say now for pouncing that we would use a perforated pattern look at this we do have another option we can put it draw it onto paper first and then quilt through I think it's a good idea whatever paper pattern you've drawn like this to keep that you can make a copy for your working paper and of course on this one we'd be holding through so that's that little rosette and that's kind of fun you could say off wait you know you can be pretty accurate really um just going through the paper and then just pull that paper right the paper tears away because it's riddle there we go so I think for machine folding that's an easy way to transfer a motif to the quilt and then of course with the laser light you know how that's going to work yes and I'll show the viewers how easy that is to do we just bring over the the stencil kit and we move our light over we have a pattern here this one this one is a hard one because you have to retrace exactly where you've been and it's an asymmetrical design which fills its face a little differently this probably would be more of a background filler rather than a block yeah yeah but it could be drawn to any shape I love these Paisley centers they're so beautiful that's an interesting one lots of quilting back over I did give you a big job yes you did that's beautiful I think the feather designs are so graceful and so appealing and we're really seeing them everywhere oh we are all wilkes being made today and you know one of the things that I do if I'm not perfect with my design I can go back and enhance an echo and do you know all kinds of other wonderful things so well I'll finish this design but I just want to thank you so much for coming and showing us these how you draft these wonderful feathers and it makes it look so easy I think any of us can do this step by step it is really easy yes they can be drawn to fit any space and and it's a just exciting work and continued success in in other world of quilting for you thank you thank you so much you're welcome Anita shared some great ways for planning before we start quilting and sometimes you need to do that so you have a clear picture in your mind of what you're going to end up with even when you think you know exactly what pattern you want to use wouldn't it be great to try it out beforehand just to get an idea of what it looks like on the quilt top well here's a way to do just that before you lay down a single stitch I call it auditioning patterns and it gives you a great preview of your end result here's how it works you just use clear plastic with the pattern drawn on and placed over the quilt top you can try out where you want your pattern positioned and rotate it into place then you can see how the pattern will complement the quilt top this is not only a good tool for the professional quilter but it's a great visual aid for working with the person who pieced the top it lets them understand where you're going and communicate with you better about what they want it also will result in less trepidation before the quilt is picked up because they'll know exactly what to expect consider keeping both a library of prepared patterns and some blank plastic for making new ones so you can addition all of your patterns I've been teaching more than 20 years and I believe that my left handed students have had to conform to the right-handed world when it comes to long arm quilting stop not anymore now with the new gamal vision too left-handed quilters can easily customize the quilting machine to their own comfort and needs my stitch my vision my gamble

Channel: Linda V. Taylor

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Length: 14min 44sec (884 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 04 2014