HQ Live - Dream Big with Kelly Ashton - September 2018

[Music] [Applause] [Music] welcome to HQ live hi I'm Vicky hoth and today joining me is Kelly Ashton she is one of our field educators for handi quilter and Kelly you get all over the world don't you I do lots of fun and exciting places meeting new quilters but you have done something that has just been amazing and it's just taken the world by storm something that everybody is jumping into and you showed him really how to do this tell us about this print this just a printed flower tell us about how you got started with so this is a digitally printed flower from Hoffman fabrics and the artist was Jeannie Summerall a harrell and as she's an artist and she takes pictures with her camera and somehow gets this fascinating thing on fabric so I saw this print in a store in Montana when I was there teaching and we all fell in love with it and just wanted to have one so I bought the blue because it matches my studio and took it home and just stared at it for days trying to figure out what to do with it so you can see on the wall back here the what it really looks like in different colors but this is the one you started with yes so if we hold this up in you it's amazing it is I needed a feather sample for one of my classes and I just was trying to find a fun place that I could quilt feathers and not spend a lot of time in the piecing of it so this this panel was perfect for that it gave me lots of place to practice feathers and they're your feathers all the way out to the to the edge all the way to the edge okay so one thing speaking of the edge while we're here you didn't bind this as you'd be binding on it why I put a facing on it because when you put a binding it kind of stops it it finishes your eye stops there and with this flower it just kind of continues it's just and by putting a facing it allows your eye to just continue imagining what the flower would look like that is I like the look of a face saw there's that's the facing just like you would on a face you know on an article of clothing greyish I mean it's similar to a binding is just all folded to the back and I'm having that edge let's you dream on cuz this is called dream big it is called dream big did you say that did I the panel is called dream big so yes okay so what do you do for batting oh perfect question because a lot of people ask that online and when you want to get a lot of texture from your quilting you want your quilting to show if you'll put two layers of batting kind of a more firmer layer like an 80/20 or a hundred percent cotton something like that so we could show that hear more of your 80/20 and then you put a wool which has a higher loft on top of that it allows the areas that are not quilted to kind of puff up okay alright the world really does that make up nice and soft I love gold by itself but when you put something firmer behind it it just keeps it popping up okay so you we've got taken care of that just you choose any backing you want yes you know and this one I noticed that this is probably some of that same fabric it's alright a Hoffman print okay so you complimented it with that and so we've got the the batting chosen you've got your your quilt you just have to decide what color and you're gonna see a lot of different colors today so you have to decide what color then the next thing I think is the thread what thread are you going to do use all the threads an important question and I chose to use a really fine thread because I wanted the flower to be the show I wanted my quilting to give it some texture but I didn't want to over take the flower so I chose a really fine thread so what wait a hundredweight I use superiors micro close off a node weight thread and you match the thread color on the back I do like to match my top thread color to my back thread okay I do not always match the weight or the type of thread I just match the color okay all right okay but so on this when you chose just a like a white or a cream I chose white and the reason I chose white because white stood out quite a bit let's let's pull a while in here so this is yes exactly what you chose are you did micro quilter yes okay and when you choose a fine thread like this it usually takes on the color of the fabric that it sits on it doesn't stand out and I knew I wanted to do feathers and one of the things about feathers that gets a little frustrating for me is the build-up of the thread on the spine okay and by using a fine fine thread like this I can put layer after layer and it doesn't really oh oh draw your eye to the focus okay I see in the outside here you've got some darker certainly could use a darker thread out in that outside area but you definitely wouldn't want to put it in here and last maybe you defined your negative space those petals yeah it depends on the look you're going for there's not a right and a wrong answer this is another process I went through is different than maybe someone else would go through but but I love I just wanted the flower on the print to stand out so okay I just might if I wanted to do some more thread painting a more contrasting color it would have been a good choice for me okay alright you've chosen your thread now you've chosen your batting and everything so do you start at the top how do you process this if you were let's start with a sit-down quilter if you were a sit-down quilter on a sweet 16 how would you prepare this to do the quilting on a sweet 16 okay to bring it to the sweet 16 Ewan you need to baste it in some way shape or form whether you choose spray basting or pin basting or even there's adhesive batting I mean but you have to bring it to the frame the to the table already baste it okay so and then would where would you start quilting I would start in the center so when you're on a sit down machine when you start and you just do the big the big sections I'm not going to do all the dense quilting I'm just going to stabilize it with with the bigger quilting in the center and then I'm going to work out kind of an angular so you you do just the the framework of it yes I'm just going to outline the petals and I'm going to go out towards the edge out lighting petals outlining the petals and then I'm going to go this direction outlining the petals and then I'll go in the other opposite diagonal directions and outline the petals on the entire quilt top before I go back and do the dense fillers so that's very stable no talks nothing gonna happen you know okay good I saw on a long arm on a stand up how would you do it there so on the stand up I started at the top I did my channel lock line across the top because this is gonna be a wall hanging I want it to be square so I've did my channel lock line across the top hey I've done my channel lock line across the top and then I channel lock down the sides and that the quilt that's in my quilting space right now I'm going to outline the petals of that space okay and then I'm going to advance my quilt base down the sides and outline the petals in that quilting space so all the way to the bottom I'm just going to outline the petals and then I like to come back up and so you'd remove the take the pins off unpin it from your take-up lead right you have to do that when you get to the bottom and take the pins out of the take-up leader that's pinning your quilt on then you're of Gotham led to do you ever have problems because I look at some of these petals and they're pretty large do you have problems with tucks because is is that enough stabilizing that you're not getting tucks it's enough stabilizing as long as you're using your clamps on the side of the machine and I keep the tension when I roll it back and forth I can tension the same across the fat because if if that was a problem then the quilter could do some some basting in that yes you could if you're not like you couldn't keep the tucks out of it you could based inside these flowers well I want to pull this out this is exactly this one right yeah print so this is it unquoted and you can see this is it this is the panel that you get she has lots of colors in there does have a lot of colors so let's just pull notice the dimension just from the digitized panel because a lot of people are asking how it had so much dimension in it and a lot of that it just came in the panel itself and I didn't see that at first because I saw the panel uh-huh but then when they thought that my quilting was what gave it the dimension but I really think the panel itself that artwork of the panel is what gives it you see some depth to it don't you yeah and then your quilting has really added to it by by channeling around there and defining those finding those petals mm-hmm all right so we can just push that aside and we can see this gray one the gray one is the same one that we have on the wall this is a deeper color compared to the one that we have here which I that is awesome I can really see some depth to that one you can you can really see the the defining petals in the center of that one so we're going to talk about the center in a minute because I just wanted to go through some of these other colors because the center is a really important thing on what we do with that so we can go ahead and just add the small that's no that's this one she really went different and I've seen this quilted up it's beautiful oh yeah so using quilting this would if you Kelly Ashton if you were quilting this would you change thread color or would you what would you do well I haven't this is one of the colors I haven't quilted yet so I think I might have some fun with some different thread colors it's so bright and pretty it would be fun to do some contrasting thread work on this one but if I wanted it to be all blend I would probably do a more yellow here in the center well blue in the very center then yellow and I would change colors you would change colors okay well I just answer that two different ways but there's would you do a monofilament oh you could do a monofilament that and still gives the texture but no thread to just show that would be a good choice I think I think I would do some fun contrasting I I think you I do too I think you could have some fun with thread pain oh yeah you could you know give some real thread painting going on here all so much potential to see you do that one so much okay so then we have a pink one and we actually have some of these quilted yeah every one of them is like yeah I got to have that one too got to have that one I'm not sure how they went through the process of choosing the color color I love what they did so one thing that she is doing that's coming out yes or has come out that the next step she's done yes is she's actually made it smaller and bigger and bigger and you have done the bigger one it's a hundred and eight so if you think this would be fun to put on your bed it's just beautiful as a king-size did you put that on your bed when you try it out I did put it on my bed to see what it looked like it's beautiful yeah okay so but besides the big ones I was kept thinking it would be so fun if they were smaller to have for a class and they just did it they knew what we were thinking oh my goodness this would be the perfect in one it had done well with this one in particular this colorway you get the one two three four five different sizes and colors but there's three I think there's three I don't sure but this is the three big dreams and then you get a little burst yeah beautiful oh so much fun okay alright and this is one of the fabrics that you've yes this is one I started again it's all just one of my favorite colors I love yes so this shows how you've done your and you did this on your long arm yes so you've placed that on there and then you went back in and defined all of the petals and yeah I noticed you've used a darker thread color what are you going to do when it comes out here will you continue to have that blue eye I'm gonna sleep with the blue on this one and see what on the I quilted two others of these and I did purple on the outer edge and then an aqua color in the middle when I wanted to try the navy blue and just see I've quilted a lot of them and so now I just get to play with different threads and they do all right well let's peel this one back and show some of the others that you have done so this is we showed the one on quilted and one of the things that we want to point out is the center because you saw the center on the first one and the center I've seen other people doing them and I'm seeing different centers so this one you've added some pebble into it you've also you've still got that defined petals leaves in there and it's kind of a little bit do what you want yeah can I go back to the blue ones yes Bree okay so this was the first one I did and when I had it hanging on the wall can I talk about that yes let's go to it looking at the wall I could easily see like the different petals mm-hmm so you're seeing all real definition here yes but when I put it on the machine and looking at at this angle I kind of lost the definition of those petals and those of you who have quilted them know what I'm talking about you kind of lose it so I got to the center and then wasn't quite sure how to make those petals work so so so this one I just took the open space and I just designed my own flower in it did you draw something first or did you just start quilting I drew it with preview paper on here and tried to fill this space okay she'll do something yes because I see on this gray one there's no it's not a lot of that you got to have your imagination going okay so we each have a piece of preview paper that we're gonna put up here and I think I've got the easier one because I see the defining flowers okay do you want to start and if or do you want me to start drawing on it I want you to start drawing on yours on this particular one when you get to the center outlining these petals I just want to draw where these petals would be okay it's kind of glaring so it's hard to see the petals are kind of around like that okay then you get left with this space like this in the center that is like what do I do with that space alright I can kind of figures over there we can kind of do some definition of the petals but with this one I couldn't so I've done them lots of different ways but I can kind of see the outline of this right there right and I know that there's a center circle oh so I can see it here yeah I can I can see it on mine so there's just so many different options I can bring it into here like this and kind of try to follow and then I have oh like my own little flower to play with there or I've seen a lot of people have just kind of taken that Center and done like a swirl or filled it in with pebbles there's just so many things that you can do but I feel like if you kind of define that Center a little bit okay so here's my Center am I correct yes all right so here's my Center right here I'm doing a little wiggle there I can see a petal here I see this this and so then I would do my double right and I can see this happening like a petal folding just starting to unfold yeah in the center there it's so pretty and then I've got one up here that and I've got this I don't know I've got one here I can there's something I gotta be on the spot no kidding okay here there there and there there's something here I need to have alright so I could cut yeah okay putting me on the spot like three days I really put you on this I can see that that this would come in maybe and yeah well I'll work on that okay this is what I love is this out here and then another one I can just see oh there's just so many ways to pick and choose how much dimension you're gonna add with your quilting so but I felt like if you spent I mean if you really focus on the center and make it kind of a nice focal point and I can use the whole flower thing I can see standing holding it up you get a better view of it then down you can do that it if I did this while it's standing up then I can kind of take it - oh look at that it goes lay it down and then I have a better visual this direction okay of how that was a good visual all right so we've seen that Center every one of these have different quilting in the petals yeah in the leaves so should I show you the quilting like I quilted this one just as a flower the center of this one I tried to define I tried to give it some dimension and define it a little bit better and I still wasn't really happy with that Center okay and you still have feathers going off of those mothers so this one I went back to kind of just adding my own flower in the center ok thread choices here we've changed thread color so you've chosen a nice light gold in this is actually kimono silk no fillers with this out here is metallic superior metallic it which totally different that is widow fit so you did all the metallic first and then went back and did the and this is one this is for your feels class that you each so every petal has a different feel yes it's beautiful and feels okay orange I think what we'll do on this one just for our quilters to see if you don't mind is have our cameraman do an overall scan of this as we close up today and you get to see some of the fun feathers and then some of the feels that you've done so just remember don't you better wait till the end because we've got some real I can be going on okay all right let's put these back and now I want to pull back all of them together because we may need them again and we have right here an orange one which we hadn't shown before and you've got it all defined with the gold thread so we're gonna pull that gold thread and then I asked Kelly we're getting getting all of our threads pulled together first of all are you gonna do feathers are you gonna do a feel do you have any idea what you're gonna do well I do know what I'm going to do because I know who it's for oh it's for my mom and so I'm just going to do feathers on it that's what she likes okay I've been thinking about a yellow let's pull the yellow out so we've got the gold going around defining it stabilizing it that's great to stabilize there we go okay so we're gonna puddle that on there and we're gonna just puddle it right here know if you can see that well and that's okay isn't that because I want the texture to show but I'm get a puddle it out here as well in your darker in the orange okay there you go so that's where it's going to show the most but once it kind of quilts in you're not gonna see much how you're not gonna see much once you have those little stitches it just kind of takes on the color that it's near so but here's another option of Corin j-- this is a heavier thread so I'm gonna see more of this just because of the thickness of thread but you could go with a finer thread in that same color this is a six or a fifty wait wait so fine now I noticed you have a red well some and some of the ones I've quilted I've liked to use a darker thread on the outside because okay I felt like it kind of makes it feel deeper or just more dimension on the outside so I pulled this one out just to see what I thought about it that would be pretty I wouldn't use it in the center here and I'm not about possibly using it on the petals on out I would be pretty yeah and this is one of my favorites come on Oh silk and it's a gold and that would look nice but it also look I'm kind of in the favor of this one about tire I really think that depth that it would give which one would you choose on the inside it could be either one of those I like I I think I kind of like I think I can take this one out of the picture yes okay yeah I think I really write in here let's puddle this but look at white as well there's a puddle because how are we gonna separate those Oh in another petal yeah you could do the white because it picks it up so yeah I want to know yes it would I want to hold this up for the quilters for our audience to see what do you think quilters you can let Kelly know what and then in the end it's your quilt yeah but you have to remember is it's yours and you get to quilt it however you like right okay so you've done on your fields you've done petals you've done micro quilting I noticed one thing that you've done on your fields is and we're gonna just lay this thread down and pull these back because I want to show there's the feels this one I love that Ray's going out and I noticed that you have done that with most pretty much all of them I know maybe one of them didn't have it but I think I've done it on all of them but the tricky part on each of them is figuring out which of the petals I want to define as a petal and which ones I'm just going to do as a background okay is this pink one I noticed you're raised you've done closer together and you've matched up staying with your pink thread and on your blue there they are together yeah a lot of them I took this feather or this petal and I just made blinds on it okay so but it was it's kind of hard to deciding I definitely did more lines on the cream one see I can see here you've gone all the way out to the edge with your feathers this was my first one I filled every little thing I could find it looked like a petal with a feather because that was my goal is to do feathers so would you are you doing it different now have you decided to do more rays out there yeah I guess on all the recent ones I've added more rays so one of them though that's a lot of petals that's a lot of petals that is and I saw somebody Pro stitcher digitized this so they yes they did for the for the for each one and everyone can counting how many pedals there were but I've forgotten how many there were but I think there's like 50 pedals so Wow yeah a lot of feathers you can get a lot of practice doing feathers well that's what I want to say about it is like online a lot of people were saying that's so hard I could never do that or the you know the feathers are too hard and boy if you committed to doing feathers on a piece like this by the time you're by the time you finished you would feel good about feathers right so you didn't spend any time piecing you spent some money under $20 probably under I've seen them yeah online for less than $20 less than $20 depending on where you live and so you're minimal on cost a good practice and it can turn out to be a wall hanging that I've seen hanging in people's homes and I just like we all want to be amazing quilter so we all want to be good at it and the only way we get that way is to be to be practicing right so be fearless like I'm gonna to go and you'll be amazing I have a question for you on this do you use a ruler to make sure you stay on the lines or do you are you just that good that you can just freehand that around there so I'm not just that good but I you are I I actually like to have my ruler base on the machine and then I rest my hand on the ruler base as I'm quilting and I go very slow the weight of my hand this really gives it some drag and it also stabilizes it so that I can know zooming in but you can see I didn't follow it exactly but if you follow I found that if you're gonna air air to the dark side like okay so have some dark in your pedal because it just kind of makes it feel like the pedals have rounded off oh so rather than having that lighter part stand out on that so air to the dark side okay so yes it totally does so in other words on the threads of you as you're starting as a quilter and you're feeling maybe not so confident then it would be better to match your thread colors so that if you do have a wobble it's not going to show as much as if you have a high contrast thread even this gold is a little higher contrast it is so match it up I'm just using a cream-colored or even I use the gold kimono silk as the Phils if I to use that to outline my petals it's really pretty forgiving yeah oh but this is so pretty to add that second channel around there and it's fun design makes the petal stand out a little bit more and you talked earlier about about that channel around to make them stand up so you're about it's about 1/2 an inch but it's give or take I noticed in the center here yeah you get to pull my hand under that is that you went smaller here so a lot of them I went more narrow as I got to the center of the petal okay you just kind of there was no rule to follow it was just that's what felt good as I was and this is your quilt this is your it's you right okay now it's time to go to the Machine and watch Kelly quilt we have a quilt on way and we're gonna let her quilt and show us some of the things that you've done so we'll be right back with the Machine and get to comb Kelly yay okay Kelly we are ready now to quilt in front of the Machine we've got the quote loaded beautiful beautiful eye candy back there those are so pretty I love the cream I thought the blue is gonna be my favorite but I think the quilting that you did in the cream textures and fills I love the - I love feathers but I love the textures and fills and you have taken you have worked in the quilting industry for long enough and you have done events and you have helped amazing quilting artists and learn from them and you have applied because we have some amazing quilt experts out there that are award-winning quilters and you have learned from them and you've been able many great instructors out there and so many fun designs yes that you've been able to learn you just hope you can do well others you can add and change and make them your own a little bit right right so everybody that has taught you gets credit for part of this thank you but you have done an amazing job here thank you yes this beautiful quilt so we have this loaded and a cup we've got a few things here tell me why we have the glide foot well the glide foots a must when you're using two layers of bedding so when you try to do your channel lock across the top to make your your quilt straight and square at the top if I'm using two layers of batting and I use my regular foot it goes so low that it kind of has a tendency to shift that batting as I'm trying to slip stitch that straight line so if I'll use the glide foot it's just like magic on those two layers of batting it just glides right across so you don't use it when you're doing this quilting but it's the prep work and getting you started yeah okay right use that on every quilt that I'm using two layers of batting I love the glide fit okay all right so I have a package of needles what what about these things that we've opted to use the micro quilter one hundred weight thread on this quilt and I have so much better luck when I use a fourteen so a size fourteen or really fine thread yeah it's important to match the needle with the thread weight that you're okay so okay alright and that's a whole new lecture another lecture about threads and needles all right the next thing that we have is your preview paper and this is a piece of plastic that you talked about previously that you lay down and then you draw what you think you might do so this is quilt I've previously quilted all the petals and we're just going to focus on what we're gonna do which the Centers okay well you know what let's actually pull this back a minute so you've quilted you can see all the petals that you've quilted you've got the versa tool tell me what you do that use that for so the virtual has a couple of little notches in it and what the smaller one fits just right around the ruler foot so that's in foot okay and what do you do with that so it gives me a little more control of the machine so if I want to be pretty precise when I hold my hand down here like you can't really hold on to the hopping foot no it's hopping you can't hold on to the needle bar I've seen people try to hold on to this but if I put the Versa tool here with the group that's that not around the foot it gives me a little more control as I'm moving the Machine around this so it's just another way to echo that pedal okay I'm keep it a little more so you definitely would want and a ruler base yeah and I don't always use the versa tool sometimes I just put my hand here and give me a little pressure and then I can move around like this so okay so again the ruler base so you've got to play yeah put your hand yes all right okay so now let's go back to the preview paper this sheet of plastic and lay this down there and I've got the sharpie marker and it we've got some boundaries here so that you're gonna be right in here you're not going to come out onto your do you want me to do it or you I am NOT you are doing this it's your quilt room okay all right I just want to see the expert there's no expert so first of all I just want them kind of mark my Center and by the digital panel you can kind of see that Center okay all right now you have to decide these these little blooming petals right here whether you want to include those into your center or whether we're going to make those just kind of miniature petals and on this quilt I'm just gonna do it similar to that one okay I didn't do a circle I just separated this into like petals that fit in this space okay because you can see him there yeah and I did it with five and I did it was six and it looks it's much nicer with six even though they say don't do a lot numbers better but hey there are so many petals here nobody's gonna count yeah okay that's good okay so that's kind of what I think I'll just do with this Center okay and I it just helps me to have a visual if I draw it on the preview paper beforehand so I can say yeah that works or no that doesn't that doesn't really work and then I could add some pebbles here and see if I like the effect of death okay adding more pebbles all right so now are you just go straight to the fabric or do you draw anything on the family I like to remark it with my purple pen now this is an air dissolvable it just disappears in the air here in Utah it stays for it stays for a good couple of hours so I'm okay okay it's kind of dry here today and have it right tomorrow but I can mark it okay so we're gonna move that aside and I'm actually gonna extend that Center a little bit because I didn't like the look of just a small one so then I'm just gonna come in here and kind of outline where I want those petals to fit you've done so many of these that this is just like second nature to you right or is each one different each one's different and I like to do them different so everything you know every one you finished should be like yeah that's good or no that's not good and just try something different yes one of the things I love about quilting is that we're just continually learning like every project we finish is another step tune in learning right okay so we have tensioned our we've got our science on we've got everything we're just now on the two poles we're going to remove everything that might get in your way the scissors can go on the magnetic collar there and I think it's time for Kelly to start quilting because I think there's going to be some magic happening here well we'll see about that I am sure there's going to be magic she's got her she's tested her tension on a side what's there so she knows that everything is ready to go and she's got it said in regulated and you're moving it to 13 stitches for it yeah okay because you're doing small quilting here okay wait that okay here the quilter huh you are the guy like I'm kind of small in the center here so yes all right okay she's got a little magic marker on earthbound about talked about going around [Applause] the nice thing about this marker it's gonna go away because you like oh you like didn't do it right on the lines and that's the nice thing you don't have to ya know the lines that I drew are just kind of a guideline for me too so we can just clip that thread right and then you're going to want to go back in and echo okay you just got a wilting we'll just talk and now how do you are you using your hopping photos the guide for echoing or you just eyeballing I'd I try to do them thinner at the bottom and then a little wider at the top so at the top I'm shooting for the ruler foot as my god okay but in the center I'm doing them a little closer [Applause] so you're just tapering in as you get to the bottom thank you that's the word I've been trying to figure that out all day too [Applause] okay now I don't really think there's too much a thing as too much quilting so I I'm gonna quilt it today okay so sewers you get to choose if you know so we're gonna clip that thread because that's just I would be nervous to have the scissors are right there you remember you put them there I think she forgot that she put her scissors I'm used to having them all hot okay on your new machines come with these fancy collars fancy colors with the magnetic tool holder right there and I love it but I have to rethink the right eyes is the same thing so I think I'm gonna kind of just do some public in the center okay and I'm not gonna zoom in real tight and get that peb lean so we can see it I've got a week now so this is quite small quilting would you change to your open toe foot or the open toe foot would be really nice right here on this when you're doing the micro quilting so okay open both toe foot allows you to see where you're writing every stitch so yeah I like the open toe and then a lot of times I will take a light and side cast that light because the handy light is my I can't live without it I have with the needle here if I shine the light like this it gives me that nice shadow that I can see where the texture okay but today today I don't have that so you're gonna just we're just gonna the camera doesn't like extra light so we're just gonna wing it and you'll be fine okay it's like memory and I did put the stitches at 14 so okay let's do it and I also love crews I do too yeah I do but a hundred yeah good okay let's do it do you keep your pebbles pretty much all the same size or do you change no I try to change okay because you always get in that one little spot that you can't fit the same size petal right do you always stand or do you usually sit when you do oh look what you're doing there I'm making a big circle in the center oh she changed her mind and I might just do a swirl in there how I got it done that got a quilted fast in that yeah and it's offset my circle in the center is offset okay not stacked on top of each other all right so you're like done now well I would actually go back and I would I like to go add another echo a little deeper echo and then do some micro filling on that because then that makes my flower in the center really stand up anytime you're doing really no okay I got this one closer than I wanted [Applause] [Applause] [Music] okay like that then you're gonna just keep going just go around all the cuddles okay thing in each one yeah now do you always leave it in sis regulator or the sometimes but move it to manual mode for this really fine stuff I do like to do manual mode for this really fine stifling should we try it uh-huh would you do that yeah you feel it's just a nice smooth move yeah it's just I have it set at 700 right now but you come to when you're in manual mode you have to match the speed of the machine to how you like to move your hands mm-hmm if I was getting big stitches I'd have to stop and speed the Machine up a little bit or slow your movement down what you don't want to do right what you want to what come over yeah my friends laugh at me and tell me that I wiggle too much when I do this you're giving your body window ah oh well I have to get your whole body and rid of them look that's right you get that whole rhythm going and now you're gonna be your little stamens up there and then you travel you travel around those pebbles I like it in regulated mode for this okay so you get your stitches the right length which is easy to do go back and lower back and forth that is going to be so pretty with all of that finish we're not gonna sit here and do that because I actually after you finished with this pedal I want you to actually move on what have you decided to do with the faux leaves I'm gonna do feathers understand are you gonna do the same feather all through every one of them and this is for your mother is that right no this oh this is the orange one is the orange one yeah okay so I'm going to do in each year little your little things one more time there so your are you doing the same feather we were talking about that I actually tried to repeat the same feather like if I'm doing these Center flowers or petals right here I want to repeat the same okay so can you travel and could you like would you have to break your thread from here or could you travel and come over here how would you do that I would just travel over there but the thing you can see that there's some kind of empty spaces here between the petals and the inside flower right gives you some good area to do some thread painting like so I could use the white thread and just densely quilt that there or unlike the things yes I say quilting that is or I I kind of like lines just because I'm would you use your ruler for that or free motion I'll just free motion it couldn't you do that sure let's do scan we do them over here yeah okay yeah I think the camera sees it better there okay I'm just ended echoing into line yeah okay oh I see what you're doing so that kind of separates that Center just a little bit use that Center a little more room to pop mm-hmm and also separate the petals that's right okay so this is gonna be feathers mm-hmm do we get to do feathers we will okay all right now it's time for the magical feathers let's do it your feathers are just like your signature just [Applause] [Applause] beautiful [Applause] then I backtrack down onto the bottom because it's such a fine thread you'll never even notice that ride yeah wait [Applause] so every other one gets a curl it's doing the Amish the traditional formal father I guess mm-hmm just gives you the curl to backtrack on that's nice and then we're gonna just finish it as far up here as you want to cross the line okay so now you're gonna travel down or clip your threads I like to add micro quilting to this so I would micro quilt around down here and go to the next petal okay so the same micro quilting that you did in the center yeah okay and then but for now let's not do that would you clip your threads yeah and move over I'd like to see a small feather and see how if you do the same what do you what you're gonna do to test you here [Applause] [Applause] so this is a different type of a feather this is not the bump feather this is just a regular others a lot of now you've pretty much filled that in are you going to go through and do micro quilting around those as well yeah I haven't left a lot of space but I would do micro clothing out around I like to do the micro quilting around these Center okay okay and then would you do that around the outer ones or not no when it starts to get a little darker I just let the coloring on the panel okay let's see all right yeah it's fun are you gonna go I'm doing I am so excited yes yes I am going to and I know exactly the color I'm going to choose well Kelly thank you so much for inspiring me because I didn't know that I wanted to do this until I've seen this and actually put my hands on it I just I have viewed those from afar and thought they're beautiful but I don't know if I'm up to that if I want to do it but oh yes I do want to do that I need to yes yes well thank you for joining and while as join us next month for another hu live and while Kelly may start doing some more quilting and while she quilts then you enjoy some of her pictures up close we'll let the camera get up close and you can see a lot of beauty shots of your work so see you again next month 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Channel: Handi Quilter

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Keywords: Handi Quilter, Longarm, Sewing, Quilting, Quilts, Free-motion Quilting, Finishing Quilts, dream big, dream big quilt, pattern, quilt pattern, flower, flower pattern, flower quilt pattern, flower print, flower quilt, whole cloth, whole cloth quilting, machine quilting, machine quilt

Id: lUoEw37Spfc

Length: 52min 22sec (3142 seconds)

Published: Thu Sep 13 2018