HQ Live – Quilting Vintage Linens and Lacework with Kelly Cline (July 2017)

welcome to HQ live hi I'm Vicki Haas from heavy quilter and joining me today is Kelly Klein from Kansas welcome to our show today thanks Vicki so Kelly is the Queen as far as I'm concerned you are the queen of vintage quilting I am just totally taken away blown away with all that you have created and made something new out of something old so I'm just gonna hand this over to you and you tell us how did you get started where had you have to do it okay I have to start with how I started because I am a believer and when you start it it helps to start on something that you're designing and something that's real because I don't like a whole lot of negative space and I think when you start that it's really overwhelming and scary so the first thing I ever did when I got my long-arm was work on old vintage tops not knowing that that was going to become my love and my passion and so the first quilt I ever did was this one and I just said hats work just a patchwork it was busy and I knew that I could do anything I wanted on it and it wasn't going to show so I sampled all over that top so you got real comfortable with a lot of different dyes the pro stitcher just in little segments see if I could skew and so I just went over that whole quilt finished it bound it and that is my husband's favorite quilt so how do you feel about it I love it you can't see the quilting if I look closely I know it's not my greatest I have a favorite saying comparison is the thief of joy uh-huh compared to your first piece don't compare to everybody else true yeah and I found the magic ride home makes a big difference so when you send that out to someone it is beautiful right so I started with that and then I started collecting collecting collecting tops from where from eBay from antique stores okay and at the end of the year I had a pretty good bill my husband said you had way too much fun on eBay this year honey I said but honey it's a business expense so I started on the tops I played with my computer I played free motion and then I went into an antique shop and I found this little Kansas piece and that is an old pillow it's a hundred-year-old pillow okay it was embroidered by someone originally it's silk embroidery and I took it home and I didn't know what I was gonna do with it and I thought I could quilt it because I need to practice I need to figure out what to do so I took that home put it on my machine and that started everything and that's my passion right there so I just started collecting linens and anything I can find I will quilt anything I'm getting ready to quilt a christening dress of my grandpa my grandpa you're not taking it apart you're actually I'm just gonna lay it on and it's gonna get all quilted on the machine so everything I do is cool to bring you back for another one option show that will do garments wedding dresses you know that's kind of a big thing is to do a wedding dress have you ever seen that I have seen one wonderful yes so when I started and I was on these small pieces you know a lot of things a lot of people don't realize they can work small they think they have to put a quilt top on this big machine and when you get this machine it's really overwhelming yeah it's 12 feet right so yeah you can go small you can go as small as you want so I also started just putting backings on and I would start with potholders I made everybody in my family potholders I would take orphan blocks okay oh you don't have to piece anything I do not do it I'm not a piece er OH cuz I'm a finder I'm a treasure hunter and so this one I did piece because I'd done a quote for somebody I wanted to remember it okay I did put that on too so I have a little memory so it's a mini quilt of someone else's orphaned orphan blocks from a guild because people bring a lot of things they haven't finished right wow you get to have a lot I got small you can finish small yeah I've got a few our friend walks out there so who has inspiring me I know so who has these pieces right everybody has these doilies all the things from your grandma and your great-grandma on your so so bring back some of those I want to do a compare unlace and maybe you'll get that to that later but the difference this is like tatin this is more of a needle this is called tenerife lace yeah if you want to get particular okay you know drawn thread work do you know about drawn thread work drawn thread work is where women would count the threads pull them tie them weave them there's no I can see this part of the fabric right here is still there compared this fabric but then there's all that okay hey lace any lace I'm fascinated by lace you know we all have these these tablecloths I think a lot of people have these that have the drawn thread work in them oh yes where it's open so I look at these as this is my palette and this is what I this is what I I think to put what am I going to put behind it so I use a lot of shiny fabrics okay because this if you just put your batting behind it you know this is not appropriate now so you have now it's about layering yeah okay so a piece like this turns into a piece like this okay so underneath it is a glitzy little glitzy fabric I'm frugal and this was a dress I cut up from about 30 years ago and I lay an 80/20 Hobbes heirloom and sometimes a wool on top of that item because it is interpretive everybody to the mansion yeah everybody says do you trapunto I say no I just used to bannings mm-hmm I mean you quilt but around it so that it really lays it down right and then I always come back and do a little bit of embellishing with beads that's probably okay so these were not on there until after right so I never I try not to go into all of this lace work and I leave the lace work for athletic stand on its own of embellishment okay I use the pro stitch or a lot for my middles I believe that might have been Pro stitcher and then I free motion the rest so I use the pro stitcher about 20% of the time okay duly I think everybody has a lot of doilies Oh that's assets this was called a duchess set and there would have been coasters to go with this very British I used a pro stitcher just for the center so I can have something to start with and then I work free motion around okay so that lays out here you have a full throat space that you can do just just tack it down and then start from the center working your way out right on that way welcome and originally this the makers work was the embroidery so the silk embroidery was done oh that's right and then I go in and quilt around it and I see on this one your thread color is just a little similar to the embroidery here not matching right the fabric and I like to use a polyester I like a shine so Magnifico or glide I live glide this machine will use anything okay but I do like the glisten and I do like a tiny stitch so I'm always thinking about scale so 15/16 is only Afrin smaller pieces all right okay edges once we get to the machine I'll talk a little bit about edges and how we treat different edges okay cuz this doesn't have binding nope don't have anything okay cuz I'll tell you what I'm gonna do with this all right later ooh there's a lot to know here this is just a little placemat on dupioni silk all FreeMotion oh wait no I did Pro stitch her the border so I can see some of the fabrics shine showing through with this path yes I always think about what's coming through that cut cut work area and then I usually start in the middle with my design I work out you know there are no rules to this the rules might be the technique but once you once you get it in your head every one's gonna be different and each piece is going to be unique so they're gonna all be a little bit so this had its own edge and then you left some of the fabrics so that you could actually bind this and give it a nice finish this is a hankie and I love hankies hankies have become my really my obsession because a hanky is a block but a hanky can be it's square it works great for the pro stitcher so this was a pro stitcher design in the middle Pro stitcher on the border I knew enough this was the first first hanky I ever did I knew enough that I could get I could connect my feathers around and I put a little glitzy fabric underneath a costume fabric so if you're a prostitue person totally you're not you're afraid of freehand you can do this or if your total free-handed don't own a pro stitcher you just let your designs right flow they and they and and I most times I don't plan ahead of time I see a piece and I let the embroidery speak to me okay and it always does I mean you can you can get your design from the embroidery from the piece itself did you add all these little beads I did so this has a crochet edge uh-huh and then after I'm done I put glass beads first now what's special for me and what I love about all of these pieces they they usually a lot of times will have sentimental value mm-hmm if you're an antique store they're not going to but but if this this was my wedding dress this background because my mother-in-law made my wedding dress so this is my set and bought my dress if this would have been the hankie that I carried on my wedding day wouldn't that be a nice piece nice memory yeah so yes yeah so what do you do with these you know after you I keep these flat because I'm traveling with them but a lot of times I'll make them into a pillow I'll frame them let's see if we've got got a frame and right here just a quarter of the hank masters and that is just gorgeous and this takes about an hour so you get two of these four of these frames out of one handkerchief exactly so you can put one hanky on your machine cut it in fourths and you've got four little gifts okay so you have a spacer in here so this hanky doesn't touch the glass right never touch the glass because it creates the moisture okay we don't want to that and then add beads or hotfix crystals afterwards beautiful oh that's a sweet little way to give somebody a gift or you know you've got it you've got grandma's hanky and you've got four kids yeah you give everybody a frame of grandmas right and I I'm just thinking of all those ones that I inherited from my mother and my grandmother that are in a drawer at my home and that's where they are I think no yes so we all have those right and it's just what can I do what can I do with that piece and they they can all be different so these are all antique but if you don't have antique new works as well right right absolutely yeah and there's some beautiful new ones yeah another hanky I just recently did this is on the sweet 16 so you don't have to be on a long arm I prefer the long arm and this is how I work things you can do in a long arm that you can't do on a sit down I can block the hanky while I'm working on it I can use my channel locks to square it exactly and we'll do that just a little bit so I see that there's only beads on this side and this are you still at work yes this was my road trip okay uh-huh and this was done on I think the pro stitcher did my border pro stitcher did my Center this was for a post at your class so it it it's beautiful I love this hanky this is my favorite thank you yeah I had a I had a student in a class last year she had taken her grandma's tablecloth put it on a large backing of silk and then she took her grandma's necklace or pearl necklace cut it up and then put the pearls as embellishments so she has a piece of her grandma on that piece at all times so we've talked about a pillow okay what do you do to make it usable so a hankie you put it on a pillow it was your great-great grandmother's and every day you make your bed you put your great grandma grandma back on your bed yeah and we want to think about those women absolutely made a big difference in our lives because a big and those women are the people who brought us here that's right so a pillow so there's a pillow envelope pillow okay the back side I did a pro stitcher design on the back cuz I didn't worry too much about the back and then that's a little biscuit doily you know you just put that and you're yeah in your bowl and put your biscuits yes post it you're in the middle i free motioned around that to do this crochet go over this crochet work you really need to have a glide foot so the live foot we'll talk about that in a minute is magic over any tatting crochet think of it over applique embroidery so this is actually someone crocheted that that's beautiful and I love that way you see I love satin I'm of dupioni silk but this is just dress satin just it's your local small shop right love the satin because I like the contrast of cotton and shine same with threads that's why I like the poly with the cotton okay recently I went to Australia with we did and we had a really good time in February and I was given lots of little things by people so I was given koala fabric I was given this really neat dresser scarf that says greetings from Australia so I cut it I hate cutting but I don't pay so it was the long right so I cut it in half this was - this was one full sheet of one sheet one full piece of fabric so I went across the long arm and then I put the the doily on each side okay and I did the whole thing at once us on there that's my Australian tote bag you got that done pretty fast I did it was February okay so this is something that handi quilter owns right because this was a gift for well actually we were just this and what this hangs at handi quilter right and we as we walk into our conference room we think of Kelly because that is so nice yes well I hadn't seen it for a year so I'm really excited so tell me the red fabric what is that so that is dupioni silk so it's not your satin but it still has that Sheen to it right and then a really Lacey Lacey hankie what I loved about this and when I chose it it had these little openings I put gold lamb a under the whole thing just a wrap under all of the whole thing because what happens when you have the needle holes and you look at this and the light you may not be able to see it on camera that you see the shimmer off it comes through you've got the glycan something in the hole I thought it was the thread no that's the gold underneath and then you added something little glass beads laughs and this was free motion using stencils so I love to design this is not pasta sure no that's me see you can do free motion I think Pro stitch or borders okay I love to mix and match that's that's part of the part of the fun at a really short stitch length so that it just Smoot rounds out all that this is beautiful thank you for letting us purchase it so that we can hang it I love it being here yes okay okay so why can I get to the machine in a minute all right let's see how to move everything aside and we're ready to stitch because I'm everything for that I'm ready okay let's go well Kelly before we start quilting I have a couple more questions all right I noticed these look really nice you're saying they're all vintage so my my things that for my grandmother or great-grandmother they don't look so clean white tell me what you do because I've been told don't touch them don't wash them and they'll fall apart but you're doing that somehow to make them look really pretty well I first I look at the fabric because some things can tolerate a soak and some can't now we're saying soak you never throw them in your washer never have to take them ever it's just like putting a quilt top in the washing machine no okay in the dryer do these go in the dryer no no okay so hand yes hand soak retro clean retro clean is my favorite it's a powder form you put about a tablespoon in a gallon of warm water and just let it soak for about a day or two okay depending on how intense the stain is so sometimes I let them just soap for a couple hours and the amazing thing that happens when I do these old pillows like these pillow pillow tops some of them are really yellowed and the minute they go in water the it just becomes brown and then there's a smell attributed and it's about it's a generation of smell it's a hundred years of dirt and just all kinds of things and you see that start coming out in the water so you sit there and you think of weird spin arrival that this has been yeah that's part of that's part of it isn't it it is and I'm gonna I'm just thinking of one thing that happened to me last week because we had Academy last week and I prepped a whole lot of hankies for Academy and I had bought a whole bunch at an estate sale and so I was ironing them before I came and would you believe each hankie had a different smell to it and you know whose smell it was it was my grandma smell it was my aunt Grace's smell it was my grandma's friend aunt beer or my favorite her fat friend Vera and it was everybody's perfumes from like Oh 50 60 hours ago and as iron I thought this is the craziest thing I'm getting all these memories come back they're not mine got it there but they're closed and then as you're stitching I've got as I've done a vintage quilts who is the person that pees this and sat for hours and hours and hours they can't piecing and the history behind that and then we get to finally finish them right so any question when you go to an estate sale or ebay tell me like up the price what would you have paid for that right there I know there's gonna be ups and down prices dollar two dollars you know it makes me sadly happy I don't even know how else to explain it because I don't spend much over twenty dollars for a quilt top which is very sad it makes it is that for them because they can use that and yeah but I'm gonna save it and I can afford to save it because I can buy a lot of them you know hankies fifty cents to two dollars a nice hankie I don't mind spending $2 okay stay there some that are so intricate that I just want them I know what's gonna happen in that in one's like well that's good to know for us as we start looking now and kind of where the rain should be and so if you're fine somebody wants ten dollars don't walk away right but if it's something you want really bad I mean there are things I've paid top dollar for because I want them so bad and you have a vision for them yeah right right and I can't let that go okay guys all right yeah you know I can't I try and go a dollar on these so I can go a little rest are clean and you can buy that on Amazon and you get at your local shop can a lot of your shops have it I picked that up on the way in Evanston Wyoming so you know some shops have it okay and then July the trick as I as I think about that stains smells so there's a lot of old quilt tops and pieces that have so much smell you can't even put them on your frame because they're so molding mildewing oh so I put them in a bathtub once again you don't want to wash them with a soak of one part ammonia to five parts water okay ammonia will kill the mold spores oh it's the only thing that will kill mold no rocks will but you don't want to one of those the ammonia I'm had no problems with it ever doing anything to it okay now fifty years from now I don't know what it's done to the fibers but we're talking about utilitarian quilts that you're going to use you're just gonna get her done and use them so that's sometimes the only way I can get it on a frame but I would soak it in that ammonia water maybe for a day or two and it really just takes all smells away I rinse it smush it smush it in the bathtub then I lay it out on my lawn and the grass the chlorophyll from the grass is a natural whitener it's not even so much the Sun as it is the chlorophyll from your grass oh my good I have often sat outside to keep birds away if it's a need to write a book on all this I'm sorry Ryan yeah okay when I speak I try and give you all these tips and I thought I'm taking your class I hope so okay so let's get it let's get good let's get going okay we're ready let's talk about thread for a minute and we'll talk about batting today we're using a brown thread so you can see it normally I would use a cream or a white on on this fabric yeah on the linen I'm gonna go match it or be berry all okay on the linen oh my god things about your satin right yeah okay and the nice thing when you're using the same color it will absorb into the that linen so you're not gonna see your stitches okay I'm sure stitches where the stitches will see it right in I love a polyester like I said I like the machine today what are we using so fine baby mm-hmm yeah so I've got the glide foot on right now and we're gonna switch over to the regular foot but the glide foot is magical on embroideries and crochet it's all this dimensional you know I couldn't work with a lot of these things and I was working with these before you all came out with the glide foot and I struggled so now I look at some of the crochet pieces I had done a few years ago when I wish I could go back into them because I could go into them yeah because you can't with a regular foot so so when I start so I've put a piece of satin on and so let's stop here do you say you couldn't with a regular foot and the glide foot does that because of that bar-shaped then because some people might not know what the glide foot is it like a ball-shaped with a hole in the center for the needle so it's just gliding over the top with your regular foot with the ring it would have a tendency to kind of caught in these little loops or I see a little hole here so that's what that glide it glides over the top so if you're not doing it on our one of our machines you can do it find a glide foot for your machine something that will glide over the top yeah because it's almost impossible to do some of this work without it yeah without something like that okay because it'll get caught up so today I've put two we're gonna try two different things one is a t20 on the bond batting yep and then wool on top okay because it really adds right up to it so invention right it will drag a little bit so if you're working with this and it's first time probably don't start with two batting's because it will be too puffy for you to work with it like you might struggle a little bit I don't do any basting oh yeah I mean I base this down but I mean I don't spray based I don't I do know stabilizing so I've just laid my satin piece down and I have put a basting stitch around it but there is no other stabilization so I noticed you weren't real careful on whether you centered it because you just have a larger than I need a piece of satin and then you can cut that off that I am so this is my frame I see this as my friend okay and then I can work anything I want in here and when I'm done here I'm just gonna cut this to shape so I'm gonna cut this the size I need it to be okay okay and I may use the pro stitch or you know there are so many ways to do this and today we're not gonna get so much into design that's a whole class that is just attaching it yeah so we're going to talk about attaching how to get started okay so because those are the messages I get in the questions people ask me Kelly how do you deal with that edge how do you get it on how do you take it off how do you okay yeah what do you do with those edges because that's different okay okay so depending how you feel I'm gonna go over this a little bit with the glide foot and then I'm gonna stop and show you another method okay okay so glide foot and this is just me working with my hands you have to be a little bit okay with your hands being down here and working one-handed because you're you are this you were the stabilizer all right so you wouldn't suggest pinning it all over the place you can but I don't know I just I I haven't you can though everybody work stuff going so that is enough I notice in classes there are some people that just need to stabilize so you can and you could put you could use fusillade probably stabilized yes I kind of like to pin it I know and and so I put one pin in the middle that's all I need before I start going I'm going to show you one method with just my hands and then I'm gonna take a ruler okay because I can't use a ruler what is it alive foot that's right so that's why you have to decide that's something I can do freehand or and the more the more you do it maybe become more comfortable to been doing this a long time so my way is not going to be your way a month or two yeah a lot of years yeah so I use a lot of times the embroidery has its own lines so I'm gonna use this nice little oh yeah where they've attached their crochet I'm gonna take that one I'm gonna just go along that line so I'm at a pretty low while holding your hands on that is really keeping that stable okay at this point I'm gonna stop that was one method that's if you feel really comfortable with your free motion skills and you can move along okay I think it looks really good okay and if it was the same color thread which it isn't today you wouldn't notice if you'd boggle just a little bit not a bit and you don't and and might my lines not great but if that was if that was a cream thread it would just dissolve into that yes okay okay we're gonna take off the foot and we'll go at it a different way okay Vicki we have changed the foot so we had our glide and now you've changed to our new Shore fun yes that's it has a higher profile for rulers especially when you're using two layers of batting exactly this is my first time using it and I'm so excited yes I get one of those today and what's that little plastic that I see this is I've got a set of four rulers and this is one of my favorites and it's called a Kelly bean okay so I'm gonna just place out do your ruler something up there the right way let's put them the right way it makes sense to put this away this is a little ditch stitcher and that's I call this my palm ruler because it fits in my hand okay and they came about because I was working on a 3000 piece half square triangle quilt and as I was moving fast because I like to move quick and fast everything was getting caught I went to my Glassman I said can you curve those ends so everything's smooth so it won't get caught up not strainers my little ditch stitch and this is a little mini that's a little half sizes okay for when you get way back in some tight spaces so you can get these on your website at kelly kline quilting calm yeah all right there's a little Kelly beam it has two curves so a concave and a convex are the same the same shape but mostly what I love this one for is I put it right next to my hopping foot and I put it ahead of any crochet or lace okay and I'm going to just put it right up next to that foot just as resistance and then it will guide me as I move and it will hold down that way Oh totally lays that down for you I'm going to take this off now just to finish up okay so I'm gonna tie this off at this point I've done all my stabilizing and I've outlying the whole thing so so I see a little tuck there yeah but it's something that I think I bet you're gonna work it right in into your tight quilting I would have I would have gone slower at the end and I would have pulled this off okay oh so maybe add a little pressure right down here yeah but I bet you can work that in knowing you I probably can because when I quilt I'm gonna come into this little wrinkle right here and I'm gonna quilt in I'm gonna quilt it away oh yeah so tiny quick just like this a whole you see that well so what is your plan for that low ho I could poop I could put a little piece of linen behind that and then I'm gonna use that just in my design I'm gonna quilt over it totally nobody'll even nobody will know I have lots of holes in my pieces but I just respect the piece and let it be I can say that because it's awesome okay all right let's keep going so now I've stabilized that whole outside and I just pick a spot that I feel like I really want to start stabilizing I'm gonna take away that pin in the middle because I'm already I'll take that Tory or that so once again this is gonna be my guide around the embroidery okay little piece and I go around every little stitch of embroidery and that's the most tedious you mean even these little tiny yes leaves and I'm gonna start in and you'll see what I go around I see a lot of times when people do embroidery they might go just around and make a circle right and maybe go around this and around this you're giving each one giving is respect exactly that's what it is and and in the tiniest of embroideries that's what I feel is really important to pop it out and and and blend it in because you're gonna blend in to this if you make a big circle around that it's gonna stand out mm-hm so that's why you definitely want to match up your thread color to exactly to the fabric now tell me the thread color you're using on the back are you matching I match I'm a match I balance so whatever I use on top I use in my bobbin okay and I get my I wind all my own bobbins okay just me personally I like to touch each one so are you using the very same thread on the back as you're on the top you're not using a finer thread no you just if you have glide you use that if you have what a Magnifico okay good okay now try it you know I usually use 40 weight but some of these pieces that are really fine and fragile I like the 60 weight you can go to 100 weight you can go to silk it's just preference and what you're working on okay kind of the density of the linen tells you a lot of things about the thread and the design and all those things I'm probably the density via quilting exactly yeah what's in that all right okay so I'm just using that curve inside here because I've got this curve shape it it glides over everything pretty good and I'm not going to get stuck okay so I'm just gonna go do a little bit of outlining you'll see you kind of what happens now well I'm gonna I'll just keep going to show you guys I do I would go into that and go even step more are you really defining it Oh cuz there's a circle stitch that has been created on embroidered on it oh you followed that right along I always try and figure out how I can follow everything because I would have cream in I can pretty much jump all over the place and you're not gonna see my flight path yeah I like that embroidered part that goes all the way around that gives you that got that travel path so you see I'm just going around each little piece Wow yes it's tedious but it's that first step that's really important okay and once I've done that then then the fun begins yeah then I start designing okay okay so I'm gonna stop right there now two different way to two different thoughts let's say I've gone through this whole thing I've stabilized everything and I'm going into my Center design okay not gonna do that today because it just would take a while but I see I start seeing things within here and I see that I might echo this just a little bit you know I start seeing the echo I see that I want to repeat this shape so I use the shapes of the embroidery and the style of the embroidery to create or whatever I'm gonna do in here possibly out here so because I see those nice little Paisley's I'm probably gonna go inside with a feather okay a tradition so I see that you've got some cross hatching here do you do that well I'm gonna ask you a couple of questions first would you go in and define each one of those cross hatches I could or I can say you know what I'll say that to later and I'll beat each little Center so you'll hand me that so I tack it down so then because of this I would have do stuff maybe someplace in here I would put some cross at you a good idea yeah and so you know you're always pulling this in or pulling this up okay duplicating or you could come out here and do a crosshatch border piano key border so this is how this is how they're different go ahead no job in the head because I'm just wondering about all of that so I'm gonna say because I I've always had people say well Kelly can I do that before yes you can do your border beforehand you can leave this hankie off or you know they embroidery make a couple of dots you know with water-soluble pen in here and you've made your border you know your your boundaries your boundaries on this fabric you can come in and do it you can do a pro stitch or you can do a ruler border let's say we did piano keys then lay your piece over the whole thing and then go about your tacking okay so you could do the borders first okay essential but since you haven't now right now if I if I manage that so what I'm gonna do and this is how I work because I always like to start my Center okay because as I work usually what happens as I go around the embroidery I'm creating my design in my head and by the time I get here I may not have known what I was doing right here but I get here and I go oh I know I know what it's gonna be so okay I start working here for me this is the afterthought because I don't worry too much about this cuz this is my focus okay so at this point I'm gonna come in and I'm gonna I am gonna put a few pins just all Jack that I'm gonna just tack this down and then I would come over and I would start doing piano key up to here okay right and then lay this down and you've hidden your piano key okay and then at this point I would probably come back in with my hand you know hand stitching and bead each one of those so that would actually tack the lace to the Saturn alright we talked a little bit about this what you talked here about doing some maybe echoing what else would you do in here I love pebbles I love little pebble I have I have a little feel that I love and thanks to one of my little friends Amy van Gorp one of your educator she taught me this little belly button thing and I'll show you my very very let's go over here because I'm not gonna use my holes the holy button it's a belly button swirl pebble fill and it's great for small little places so let's just start with a pebble I might have echoed let's not see this line right here let's go okay okay okay now I've got this trip and that for any okay that would have been after you defined it right all right so have a little channel around alone so now I just need a little bit feel right in here and so my favorite for you so every once in a while you've added just a little curl or a little right pebble and whenever you cream not in brown it's much prettier but I would probably change feet again yes and put the open toe foot on so you'd see as your quilting that micro so you're not leaving the same photo all the way through this project ya know you're changing up a lot so oh my goodness okay so that's one method so that's the that's the embroidery you know that's the basic how you go around embroidery how you deal with the laces okay okay so let's also there now this one you've taken out so you only have one layer of batting right taking the wall away and then you've got this cute little right what would that be and that's a drawn thread work okay so what would they use that for um gosh the coaster just a dresser you know we're on the on the arms of chairs oh yeah they dressed everything up and you know my family comes from Kansas so we were in the middle of that pioneers state that pioneer thing and they had Saudis so sod houses were big ok Sweden em trees and so my ancestors lived in sod houses because that's all they had to make my house and I think about some of these women that made these beautiful things to dress up their sod house I let I'm from Wyoming and the country and I remember one of my duties was to take these off of the sofas and the arm chairs and wash them because at cabinet the chairs the armchairs clean right the armchair chair yeah arms on the chair cleaned yeah yeah yes ok I know all these little pieces and the thing is nobody makes these anymore and they're there's so many out there but there's gonna be a day where there they aren't any with if you keep up there stay home today and I hope you all will keep that's right gather gather buy them all I said I always say I should have something tattooed on my forehead that says I'm here to save the linens of the world because that's what I you know that's what I travel doing I love love love to travel so I knew inputs are square to the fabric but you could do it that way as well and have some great feather I mean I'm starting my mind is really starting to I know go crazy now that when I teach I tell Pete I and start with a square because it's the easiest thing to start with but then once you get a little bit more accomplished to go on point because on point of course is always yesterday's so um one thing I need is a water bottle so why are you I noticed this is kind of wrinkly right now and you're gonna spray this it's not gonna spot their satin I'm gonna do it off the okay all right so a lot of these pieces are not square and that's the other thing I respect sometimes the unsquare nature okay if I'm working on something large like I have a tablecloth that I've just worked it is not square it's not meant to be because I can't bring myself to trim that oh yeah how the woman made it okay and so I once again I respect the shape but this one because I do want it to be square a lot of these they're so they're so the weave is so loose on them that you can manipulate them once you get them a little bit wet and so this is my favorite thing to do so I dampen it just a little bit not on the satin usually and I start not in a corner so kind of down that channel like so once again I'm gonna use that that that open weave as my line so I can I can set my channel locks on a long room that I can't do on a domestic or sweet or sweet 16 that for me is the advantage on a long arm and I'm just going to manipulate it to the horizontal lock and then manipulate it to the vertical lot and because I can because weddy that you it's gonna given it some give and then when it dries you've blocked it occasionally just like you do a quilt so once again my hand is just above it so if he's turned on the horizontal catalog and then she gets over there for the corner she's going to change it to the vertical channel on it and coax it the end to it that's a good word now we're going back to the horizontal and this is where I start astray in just a little bit now your last on vertical film this is the one that matters because you're gonna have to stretch it just a little bit to make it okay where but it is gonna be square what is imaged okay I mean this is the this is the best trick and this is my favorite thing to do with a kind of wonky square piece because all of a sudden you made it you made it work nice right there Oh perfect how pretty is that it just changed that whole look at this piece because we put it on something shiny now we readily wanted to up it a little bit we could put something else underneath it something shiny you could put gold you could throw me or anything yeah and I would put it just to this stitch line and I would put it under it stitch it down and sometimes I go with a curd with one of these yeah just like this so you're talking about something out here yes like if I laid something underneath it and I did have something we could have done that but I would have laid it probably I would have made it the same size as this square okay I would have stitched it down got it stabilized and I would just pull this back and I would go along and I trim it just right to that stitch line and then lay that over and then add one more stitch possibly at this okay so it'll been so excited yeah so it would lay all in here I would probably go in and do some tiny cute little inside work I might just do a crosshatch across there I can see that some beads could be right here on those cross right and this one I might duplicate I mean to make it really fancy you could duplicate all of this in your side border okay it could become a pillow when it's all finished oh myself you know this guy's the limit so for sure you'd always tack this down afterwards right okay sometimes if this is wide enough I have one that I've just recently done it's got itsy-bitsy little feathers down this whole thing oh I use this as a spine just make one side face and this could be the other side of feather yes it totally would have taken pair both those sides a little feather wreath in the center or what yeah and seriously this is done in about an hour or two and that's why I love these pieces because it's it's fabulous quickly it's a challenge it's quick it is finished yes and if you only paid a couple of dollars for it and that did launched you go on going on to another one yeah don't start with your grandma's heirloom yeah do that so these are some that are not your heirlooms so they don't mean as much to you tell me some colors of satin that you've done that really make it I know our three yeah this is my favorite color just because it blends really nicely I've done it on purple sometimes you know it just depends sometimes what the embroidery is that embroidery would look beautiful on royal blue okay or even the gold pick up the gold in the maybe it's colder than that mm-hmm so a lot of variety there to choose from right Kelly I am just blown away with everything everything but you have some information as far as how how can our viewers find out more about you and classes and you tell us give us some information website kelly kline quilting calm and then i say l ke l ly c li NE okay okay and i and on there are tabs that say lectures and workshops there will be a calendar pretty soon because everybody's asking me where I'm gonna be I'm on Facebook as Kelly claimed quilting you can friend me personally but on that page you just see babies so you know you got to do with grandbabies is important I'm on Instagram is Kelly clan quilting and I teach all over the country in kind of the world yes yes and you answer a lot you have your own Facebook or and I will answer any questions people can message me all day long I try to keep up with it great okay so this is such inspiration and we have she's been holding out because I kind of started searching through her suitcase and pulled out more and pull out more and I go hey come on show off a little bit here so we're gonna end today thank you for joining us with our HQ live join us again next month for a new topic but while we close we're just gonna let the camera take over and just show some of the fun things that you've got here so more Viki is fun thanks for joining us yeah thanks [Music] you 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: 45min 36sec (2736 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 13 2017