HQ Live – Quick Grids and Go! with Sue Patten (September 2017)

[Music] [Applause] [Music] hi welcome to HQ live I'm Vicky Hoth education coordinator for handi quilter and joining me today is sue Patton a famous wonderful quilter with a lot of energy right a little bit from Canada which educate kamut Canadians and you come all over the world all over the world a lot of time in the US I do so I've traveled all through Canada the u.s. parts of Europe overseas Africa Australia and you're a wild clutter you know something I'm a little bit wild I look traditional but I'm not maybe a little bit slowed down but not toned down okay so I'm seeing here that you've got this wonderful sampler yeah one one sample that you can embellish or change and make it into so many different things right so I like to you know make very simple things that look spectacular I don't want to learn 10,000 new skills and practice and practice for months to have something that looks stunning so what I'm gonna do today so I'm gonna take this simple design concept so this is a continuous curve one continuous curve we're going to follow the same travel path we're gonna use the exact same muscle memory same movement dozens of endless design concepts okay so we start with this we're gonna start simple we're gonna add a little of this take away a little of that expand a little here alright so we're gonna keep Despero cloth so we can kind of see where you're going with it but this is your start this is my start yeah now you a quilter can't just start without doing preparing the fabrics Emily exactly so first of all what thread are you going to use today for what you're doing so today I actually have a pre wound in my bobbin okay I like to match my bobbin on the bottom with my top color fabric okay so I have a black pre wound Superior bobbin and then on the top I am using a hundred percent cotton machine quilting thread from Waialae okay alright so we've got that set we're good to go settings on the machine that you're going to do so today I'm going to put my eyes on so that I can see I'm going to set my machine at a much lower speed than if I was free motioning or doing wild willy-nilly all over the place I want to be as precise as I can so I'm going to use a few tricks I'm first going to put my machine in manual so that my movement is nice and smooth and consistent so that stitches per minute not stitches per am correct now if at home you are used to working in a stitch regulated mode no problem what I would suggest as you set your cruise so that when you hit your corner that slight hesitation makes a nice crisp so every instance regulated but in the cruise mode not in the precision correct yes exactly today I'm gonna work in manual I'm gonna work at 500 and I'm gonna do a little bit of preparation so if I was doing these designs on a quilt and I did not have a pieced block that was one inches it would be a lot of really really hard work to try to make it perfect I want it to look perfect but I don't want to work hard at it okay so I have my wonderful miracle tube pelts pad it is a simple powder this is the old covering and they've just now changed the casing to the new chasing I am using the we'll just put that down you know the white pounce pad so it brushes away so not the iron off one correct okay eyes are is here are two fights there are two ways you have one with the red Center and it is not just brush away it's iron off a sign or not there's a blue there's a pink what I recommend is that you read the instructions I know they come with instructions you would know but there are instructions on how to remove it from your fabric I like to choose the original white because if I put something somewhere and decide I don't want it there I don't want to wait for anything to dry I don't want to find an iron I want to brush it away change my mind re pounce and keep going and what do you brush it with so the best thing to do is this great little guy right here if you remember when we used to like to do the dog hair uh-huh so a symbol swipe and the powder is gone and the lines of registration are gone okay okay the other thing that you can use is a microfiber cloth oh yes which works fabulous as well those are probably your two best bets and to get it off afterwards you just brush it the other way I do yes I just kind of give it a little bounce on the powder disappear so all right let's move these aside so why do you use the pattern so today I'm going to use a one-inch a stencil grip okay and I see you've already grid I have so I've marked off a couple of areas but I simply place my grid anywhere on the quilt that I want it to be I pounce the powder into my hand and I simply swoosh back and forth and when I lift it I've got these great registration lines so now I don't have to use my channel locks and stitch my grid I can have a disappearing grid to work with so see one thing you said a little earlier about the pounce chart because it's pounce you pounce it like you pounce it into this correct container you do not pounce it on your fabric and I love that because then when you swish it rub it across it doesn't leave a hole build up a powder that's gonna just bounce bounce bounce you are just itching now if you tend to get a little bit of a build-up because you know mind travel in my purse in my back pocket and the poacher you know everywhere so I do tend to get bit of a build-up at home to prevent that you can store it upside down then your pouch settles back into the pad and doesn't poof out of your upper casing when you pounce it into your hand but if you get a little too much in there you can simply take your fingers and just rub it right in okay okay just so that you know because it does get out it all up on your hopping foot and get chalky white correct and so anytime you're using pounce you always want to service your machine by cleaning it clean the bobbin area clean around it after you've used chalk so that and I'm so glad you mentioned that because you know me I'm I'm not a good maintenance person but I use the pounce a lot so every time I change my bobbin I actually clean out all around my hoppin foot because it does tend to build up in there and I am in a lot of humidity so it tends to stick to the foot so I just want to get in there each time I change my bobbin and really clean it out well and it can get on your tracks I actually have that happen once got on the track yes and on the encoder wheel and it stopped it stopped doing stitch regulation correct you know and it's like wow it's happening well and it can just give you a little bump so the next thing that I'm going to always recommend is that in between your quilt or if you're doing a large quilt when you take a break for the day after you've cleaned everything up here a little bit of batting clean all your tracks on the back then you don't get those bumps and you don't get all those little bumps and it's good to go when you come back okay so you we've talked about how to get a grid on there so that we can start this got our thread everything our tension is right we're on it are simply 16 which is an incredible little machine with our little foot frame so we are just ready to go and I want to just mention to everyone I am sitting yes this is a perfect machine for you just to tuck right in underneath I'm going to be working in a very small area once I fill this area I'm going to needle but reposition my chair scoot right in where I'm comfortable and Stitch again so you're not going anywhere fast right I'm going to go slow and steady wins the race and I'm just going to fill and travel fill and travel remember when it used to take us six months of Sundays to do our quilts and make that happen I missed that I have over the last probably five years decided that when I get on my machine this is my happy space so I want to not be thinking about how quickly I can be getting it done but how much I'm enjoying what I'm doing right here right now not think that this is monotonous this is where it is the enjoy really I want to enjoy it a little bit of chocolate with it and I've got my little coffee maker that sits right on my machine so I don't have to travel too far forever correct okay what you're gonna do now are you gonna just quote really fast alright I'm actually gonna go fairly slow and I want everyone to see the travel path now I know that this is a design that most of you have either done before or seen done in several different ways today I'm going to show you my favorite travel path first okay it's a little bit different than most I'm not gonna weave in and out but I'm gonna end up with the same effect so you're gonna do bumps I'm gonna just bump bump bump bump you'll be so annoyed oh yes I do so what do you want on here depending on the size of my area that I'm filling what I want to do is I want to create a sound that allows my movement to be all the same size okay so that it looks just a little bit more consistent okay cuz you're doing a curve and some people struggle with curves right get them equal going out of this corner coming back in the corner without like flat line laughing it out so what I'm gonna do is I'm actually going to use that quarter in chopping foot and when I say bump it's going to come up the bottom of my foot is going to align with my line okay I know now that it's time to scoop back in it may vary depending on what design we put inside but if I continually say bump bump bump and use the corner of that foot they're all going to be similar in size and you're going to be able to quilt all of this without one fouls and your thread that because you have a travel path that's right all right let okay so spirit alley I'm gonna go from here to this corner I'm going to come up and over and I like to work in a horizontal okay so over and then all the way I'm gonna are you gonna do this or not yep I'm gonna travel all the way up to here and get this side of it that's correct and then I'm gonna come all the way down and then you'll travel okay okay let's go but see how I got some wonderful bright colored thread on there got some nice variegated so here we go I'm just gonna aim for my corner and the most important thing with this is that as I come around that I touch that thread in the center okay so the only ones yet it means slowing down or putting that stitch regulator on and walking it in Twitter shorts for our viewers absolutely that's correct and this can be done on a sit down machine yep you're gonna be done on any quilting machine and all your domestic machine that's correct and that you're gonna hit the same movement you're just either going to be moving your fabric are you gonna be moving your head so I'm just gonna jump into the corner so I'm gonna go from here to here and here to here and I'm just gonna go bump I'm gonna just a tweaked thumb so you're ready that's correct I cuss you know with the viewer if you need stitch regulation and you bought that go ahead you turn that right on yes so why I increase the speed of my machine is I'm in non stitch regulated mode so I'm working in manual if my stitch is too long like it was here I don't want to alter my movement I want the machine to work for me so I'm gonna speed the Machine up until my movement and the speed of the machine make a nice day so you were at 500 as you started you can read up to 525 that's right and I feel that's good for you I'm gonna try and stitch just a little slower than normal today so that everyone can see the travel I've been practicing all day to slow down our machines do have a speed up and down so that on each handle to speed up and the speed down so if I was at home on the fly and I was stitching and I was working in a delicate area where I wanted to go a little slower I would actually use my handles as opposed to stopping my machine mm-hm and when I was finished that delicate area and I wanted to come out and do my free motion i zoom it up as I went okay okay all right so we've reached the top and we're gonna work our way back down and I'm going to actually for that second row do a mirror image okay okay so I'm gonna come down and I'm gonna bump just going to work into my corners and down don't worry if you get a little bit of a twist or a slant and how you've done this before I've done it a couple of times now my trick with the row on row is I'm now going to travel all the way up to the top okay once I've done yet once I've done my first row in my mirror image I'm now only going to work on that right hand side okay so I'm just going to bump all the way up to the corner to the corner to the corner to the corner and when I come back down I'll include this little sleeve I'm going to go in out back down out in down out in down bump and travel travel travel travel down and out in down out and down out in down over now I want to finish my edge off so I'm simply going to work my way all the way around that outside section and I'm gonna close it in so that it looks like a finished area no thread rate you know you didn't have to stop because something got left out that's right done oh wait it gets better oh we take off the lines and now I look brilliant even though I'm not okay but wait it gets better so there's something you're gonna put in here absolutely so yeah we get to see or you're just gonna do I'm just gonna do it so this of course is a fabulous design on its own it can be in a tiny quarter inch square it can be in a two inch square as a background fill any size that you're comfortable with that fits that space this is really enough for most now what I want to do is look here really yeah I've mastered this so now instead of learning a new technique I'm just gonna add to it embellish I'm gonna embellish thread so what we're gonna do is we're gonna ribbon this entire thing and watch how easy it is okay I'm gonna go outside and inside and outside and inside and out in outside inside outside inside outside inside and I'm wiggling outside the lining inside and I'm ending right in that corner so it's like you're doing a mountain and then into a valley you got it right now I'm in my peak in my valley and I'm going to travel in the exact same way okay so the same movements the same travel path is what's going to take me through so I don't have to learn a new travel path either I think I I think I would draw this first that muscle memory so when you first start you can absolutely draw it out what's awesome yeah what I recommend when you first get started is to not worry so much about the precision but just to worry about the flow and consistency of the movement all that makes a lien in the low just that whenever every one of them for me when I first started doing this outside inside outside outside and then they were all consistent and I always left room for that next little piece to slide in there because it becomes an open gap space and it is look at you call this a ribbon this is a ribbon and it is looking like a ribbon like the twisted ribbon in there that's correct and then of course I could go all the way around that outside edge and just finish it up but again I I didn't have to learn anything new it's a movement that I've already mastered and a travel path that I've already memorized and you know what it does is that if you did have a little unevenness of your actual first curve it's okay like this I never care what's in front of my eyes I only care what my brain allows my eyes to focus on so if that means that I'm gonna sneak in and sneak out to make it look even and balanced I'm gonna do that every time yeah that's beautiful no stress no worries yes okay so now what we're gonna do is we're going to take that original design again I have to take a little peek down here and we're gonna alter it again so I'm going to slide up here and today I'm going to be working always in from that bottom left hand corner okay but on a quilt I may have to come in and travel on a different path the reason I demo it from that bottom left hand corner is because we take information in easier that way so it's easier to learn a travel path that's moving away from you as opposed to towards you okay so mentally I have everything up right okay so now I'm just gonna add a tiny little bit of extra so I'm gonna come in and I'm just gonna jump out and back and okay so you're doing it as you're doing the curve now correct you don't even have to go back I don't want to go back you call that little I'm gonna go boom crescent moon or bump anyone I'll have it every one of them okay but wait it gets better I'm giving you guys some extras so I'm gonna go back into that corner and then I'm gonna go in that bump in back now watch what happens I'm trying to stay in and around that Center okay then when I come over this way I'm gonna stretch all the way out and back so I've got a long crescent moon and a short Crescent man opposite of every one of your crescent moons a short when you have it have a long little long okay alright so we're gonna go bump in back from in back long back now I don't have to remember this one and not that one that first one that I do in an open space is always going to be little thumb in back long back bump in back travel down thumb long back you could do it long but it's okay you know why the professional knows absolutely and in the grand scheme of things is anyone going to one short and one long you're not gonna have this quilt as a gift and say oh by the way I am I do happier lutely not going to point out any of my mistake because there will be so many of all of these cute little that's correct and really in the grand scheme of things what we're looking for is depth texture and balance so we don't want it all to be identical we want a little bit of movement here and there so if one of them is short the other one's long or I do several of them short too short long too long it's not going to matter okay if I hit this one all right I told you get this and just move yourself along to another one okay up some others that I see on your thing on your sampler here yeah I'll do another one let's jump all the way up here okay right over and what do you want to see well I like this let's do this so I'm gonna go we can see this thumb and I'm gonna slide into the middle okay so we're back here hold on we got to get okay thumb thumb back Oh middle one stretch thumb middle stretch thump now I'm gonna hit my top one first so I'm gonna say slide touch back slide touch back bounce middle back slide back bounce middle back slide back bounce slide bounce slide bounce so the ones vertical horizontal are different than the ones you're I think that you're gonna do vertical correct okay because I'm thinking I have once and that's all you're seeing but I think you're you're getting you're going to get that right I am so as I come around I am creating this little swoosh inside and I'm simply just adding a little bump on the inside so as I keep going around okay it twists and turns inside all right not the one you were hoping for well you combine two here so this is that I like what I'm seeing here because I would have never guessed you did it that way you could do this sliding all the way through but then you've got to change your travel path I've already memorized my travel path totally what I'm always going to work on a movement that I've already memorized and a travel path that I've already memorized I like that swirl inside of it doesn't that look cool yes so now we can twist this again and we're going to end up with a little something different okay so I'm going to come in and I'm going to twist here twist here twist here so I'm going to double it as I go okay and I'm going to create or switch it up so one here one here one here one here let me jump back up here so as I go I'm gonna go in this way in this way so I just have one on the other side I'm gonna go in the other direction okay oops never twist it myself around okay so where we had the long and the short now they're not going to connect so I have a little crescent a little crescent but wait it gets better I have to show you my favorite one I'm gonna come in I'm gonna swirl and back up swirl and back up now watch what happens when I start traveling in the other direction swirl and back up swirl and those are all going the same direction what I'm doing you're gonna flip up so what I'm gonna do is when I'm on the bottom I curl in and I'm actually using that line so that they stay on one side of the line or the other so up in that up and back when I come down this way my curlicue is going to be on the opposite side of the line let's pounce and look at how cute those love that is my favorite that I like the best but every time you add another one that's well inferior whatever you do well you can place in here I can come around do a little curlicue and then create a little flower on the inside okay whatever you want to do add a little take away a little push to the left now I've got to show you one that everyone just goes crazy over before you go though I I've got this one figured out yes that the backside always has to lay against that correct that works so wherever you're bumping over to that's the way you're going to come around and into your swirl now you don't have to invert it and that's right it's something it's like I have to think that through and there it was correct okay so let's get one more in here before we go for it go too far and I'm just gonna slide down I'm gonna do this one nice and quick so I'm just gonna put a little twist twist down twist just a simple little loop we've all been doing loops since we were sitting on our grandma's laps on the so nasty hardly to do it all very very simple draw with her draw with her yeah I think you'll get it really quick and easy and again the more I add to this the more defined it becomes and the more intense of a background that creates that same path though same path so here we go I'm gonna go over bump back over bumps a little bit more than a tea that's correct so I'm gonna tack it down and make it a little bit more just have to do this yeah back over a jump of three we'll get you right back to where you started every time now watch what happens when I come around it's gonna be filled in like a little blooming flower and come back this way and my one two three there's one two three and look at how well that fills that space in one space yes so if I was using a tone thread that was the same color as my background fill I would literally just be creating a syphilis look without the hours and hours of stifling because it would pack all of that space down except for that tiny little space in the center which is cool to have tiny space that little bit of puff you like to have that little puff pop out bouncing back one more we're almost done this whole section and again get the effect of it when I'm at home I love to combine several of these so I'll do a ribbon and then a curl and a ribbon and a curl the secret to that is leaving a full entire space so two full rows of your squares with nothing in them and then flipping to the next goodness oh now let's just really quickly get rid of some of this background it looks so much nicer with nothing behind it and suddenly even the mistakes look precise even the chin lines are gone that's amazing and people say how did you get them so even let me tell you a little secret it doesn't have to be hard though how to look spectacular that's my beautiful when she wanted in my family safely pass of just going through and that was easy it was embarrassing and I think the thing that you know cuz I was fretting I was worried over there alert are you getting all of those accurate that's like right it didn't matter once I saw the rest of it it did not matter what size you have to Sapir that just frees you up that's right and now can you remember where I went to shorten along yeah and we've only done these tiny little blocks we're talking about a large quilt but it is a background please let the small stuff and so could you use a larger grid and do the same you could do this as a very large grid and do a background fill but wait it gets better all right you could take a triangle grid or a hexie grid pounce it out follow that same travel path all the way up fill in on the way down that has a different multiples of different looks yes so play please all those great stencils are one nisard one-inch grid this is a one-inch grid so depending on how large your squares are or how tiny your square sharp Oh 1/2 inch can go 1/2 inch grid with a 1/2 inch grid I can do a little and a large end a little and a large well check about tiny effect Dunning yeah you'd go with a finer thread with that I absolutely would I would probably go more to a polyester I'm not a sheen girl so I would go to a low Sheen poly uh-huh I would try and go a shade lighter or a shade darker than my background so that I really had that shading and intensity as I stitched it out anything else you want to tell us relax enjoy and have fun take something you have already mastered that you already love and just play with it it doesn't have to be hard that's right and and now it's time for chocolate right Oh so time for chocolate and coffee well thank you for joining us with our HQ light today remember we're on every month come back next month for a new subject awesome let's keep cutting okay but I've to put my ice back on all right did you notice my glasses matched my thread just saying [Music] you [Music] you

Channel: Handi Quilter

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Keywords: Handi Quilter, Longarm, Sewing, Quilting, Quilts, Free-motion Quilting, Finishing Quilts

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Length: 34min 34sec (2074 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 14 2017