LONGARM MACHINE QUILTING - Custom Machine Quilting for Ready Set Quilt Shop Sample

hello everyone I'm Michael Davison today I am sharing some custom quilting with you and this particular project is one that I made for a local quilt shop that's new to the area they knew that I was a custom long arm quilter and asked if I'd be interested in hanging a quilt in their shop and so of course I said yes I knew that they liked traditional quilts so I decided that I was going to do a fairly traditional quilt but with a lot of negative space so I chose some fabrics from kim deal which when i go the traditional route i really like her her reproduction style fabrics so anyway I thought this one would be a simple one I did half square triangles and squares and just made it very easy for myself so turned out to be a very large star with lots of negative space for quilting one thing that I mentioned in the video and you'll see here in these stills is I have been basting my quilts prior to doing any custom work on them and I used to just pretty much rely on finding major seams and major shapes and doing some stabilization over the whole quilt but but now I really like setting my machine to about two stitches per inch and loosening the tension and just doing an all-over meander and going ahead and advancing the quilt all the way from the top to the bottom with this with this basting and then going back and doing stabilization and then doing custom work it just makes sure I don't have any surprises and it doesn't take that long and I really like the results I've been getting from it so if you'll see some of the video you'll see those stitches and then I pull them out after I quilt around the area I basted this whole quote first and then I'll pull it out afterwards you know some people might pull these out as you go to the sections to start quilting but it's really not that big a deal I just quilt right over them and pull them out I won't do any dense quilting over these in fact I'm outlining all of these big shapes by the time I do that it's it's stable everywhere and I could just go ahead and take out all of the basting anyway um pretty simple for those of you brand-new to ruler work you know I had a beginner series that I was filming and I'll include this and as I go through all of my my new rulers which there's a lot of them now I'll give some advice for beginners and then some tips for experienced ruler work a little bit anyway this is just easy peasy stuff I am stitching in the ditch and trying to get right in that ditch if possible otherwise I'm trying to air towards the side of the solid and stay off the print I knew as soon as I said that I was gonna stitch right over the print this is the way it works when I stitch and they did I do not mind do not mind seeing I don't know if this is in the camera view or not I don't mind just a little teeny bit off it's all about the texture so these again you know I you know I talked about this one my ditch everything rolling here to probably say well you're ditching why don't you using that one and I could I mean it does have a long side but there's just something about a basic straight 12 inch ruler for really long straight seams that just is where it's my go-to as you know many tools do the same job you do what you like okay at this point I have ditched all of the big shapes so that I'm gonna go through and do a little bit of echoing inside here so I'll probably film some of that in a few minutes okay okay here we go for the squares where shape first using my straight 12 for this what I did go exactly because this quilt is going to be a sample quilt I'm gonna do a little bit less backtracking and I'm going to tie my about tying my threads I'm gonna stop and start I'm just gonna cut down there where I usually do okay so now I'm going to start up here I'm doing this in the seam just to hide the first few locking stitches a little bit I didn't get exactly there we go okay once I go around and do this quarter-inch echo on the inside I'm using the straight 12 again then we'll do the the pattern and we should be able to start from here and not cut our threads here we go okay I'm gonna stop when I see the foot as close to the edge ruler on previous and I'm gonna stop here when I get to the seam right there good once I hit the seam since there is a seam there I like to stop there even if it's slightly off so right now my ruler I can see a little teeny less than sixteenth of an inch bit from the scene but I'm just going to kind of compensate for that with the ruler and line the ruler up straight with this corner up here because I'd rather the stitching stop on that seam and not look like it's a mistake I'm that's only if someone's really looking that closely and in this case they might be so as well okay finished up the inside I go now I have two options I can either do the outside curves or the inner shape and I'm gonna do the outside outside curves first I'm using curve at 12 for that so it's a very shallow curve I'm lining it up I like to see that there's a straight line here with this previous block but it doesn't matter and if you've seen my other videos you realize that this curve is the same no matter where you start it what I really need to make sure of is that when I finish stitching my needle ends up right here the quarter inch away right in that corner so I will do whatever kind of compensating I need to do if I need to adjust the ruler like this but here we go we're going to start here move around I'm looking to see if I'm going to land right that looks pretty good to me stop there do the next side making sure I end up right there in the corner which I did now I can either I don't know if you know my rulers mic levels they're the same curve on both sides so I can either use it this way or this way I tend to work with rulers closer to my body so I'm gonna keep it this way you don't know this time I'm gonna go this way just because it's harder it's harder for me to go from the back so now I'm gonna go from the front it's the exact same curve so here we go and disregard my my lines here those were previous design lines you don't need to to look at those they'll just wash out or off I'll spray it now okay so that's my outside what I'm doing on the inside is a little flower design so I need to actually find the center of this which I actually already know that's four inches so let's look at one two three four or I can go like this too it doesn't have to be perfect okay that's my life now I'm gonna switch I'm using um the eight so I did the twelve on the outside using the eight for the inside and I'm just going to start this way so again I want to land with my needle right on that dot you can do this any direction you want I'm gonna go clockwise I can use it this way or I can go this way so I'm choosing to keep the ruler towards my body there are some times on this design if you if you keep crossing over the center you get a little bit of threat buildup in the sense but this one is the pattern I'm doing goes to the center but not crossing it so it tends not to get as much thread build-up as if you go the other way and the last one I'm gonna come back and do some fills here but for now this is the basic design okay good very simple but once I stitch in these areas right here the flower will pop and this outside curve and pop okay I'm still doing the same match to fill but I'm switching to the ditch everything ruler if you haven't seen me use this before it's meant for stitch in the ditch for just about every shape that you can imagine and it also has the hopping foot entrapment right here so that you can use your ruler almost like little micro handles but something um when you're moving the ruler a lot like I am for this matchstick quilting if if you've seen my other video on this it's not designed because of this like this shape was designed just to be an inside circle but it's actually a great place to rest your thumb and if I'm moving it a lot I'm finding that and this there's a hole here this is a hang haul for retail so even though these things were designed for other things I find that it helps me control this ruler a whole lot especially for something like this when I'm going back and forth really fast well not really fast but pretty fast okay so that's why that's why I switch to this one in case you're wondering what I've done I'm still still working with straight lines to go along the straight lines of this piecing and also if you're doing a block like this one exactly like how I'm doing it and you're filling these areas there there is a path that I decided to take after I stitched out the first one just to make it continuous and to have it will have a little bit of backtrack but it's just an option you need about so here you can go all the way across start down on this side and now I'm working on this quadrant and here's the point where we can decide now I said this was a sample quilt for a shop and I would like it to be as perfect as possible however this is not a show quilt and so people really want to know what they're going to get if they hire me for custom quilting it's more like what I'm doing now and I'm gonna have a little bit of backtracking over over a part of it so I don't feel bad about doing that okay so I did the first half of this quadrants first half of this quadrant now my idea is to go around and when I get to this part I'll come across again and I will get the the rest of it although that will be stitching in the way the direction I don't normally like to stitch in but it will still be okay be flexible you know I watch a ton of tutorials on quilting it's like my preferred entertainment and before the internet you know we had television and movies and DVDs but I pretty much any time I'm watching anything it's probably on YouTube mm-hmm or something craft related I subscribe to the crafty flash brew blueprint so I watch all of those too but um we're gonna wireless for help I was saying this I think it's because I let's say I started by saying be flexible learn different things from different people changing things all the time oh well hope you got something out of whatever I was gonna say goodness okay dad I'm just sort of going in okay so this is probably the most backtracking I'll do this is where I'm not going the direction that I prefer but I can get it done I noticed when I'm not going the direction I prefer I just had a tighter grip on my right hand on this handlebar which tells me I'm stressed out so I just was aware of it and I loosened up and now I feel much better that happens to you just take a second please come out okay now we're going down so here we go I like this level it's not perfect matchstick quilting it's not necessarily back and forth lines most back and forth line designs you see the loop you don't always necessarily get to the edge where like I'm I'm getting to the edge of the previouse sorry about that adds a previous stitching and backtracking but I'm doing pretty good I'm getting close enough but I'm not doing the back-and-forth where you see the loopy line at the end and you're not actually hitting the next stitch line yeah I guess what I was saying earlier is I learned from everybody and if you don't know it I my high school teacher also and I tell my students you're gonna learn a lot of things in your high school and college academic life some of those things are going to be Givens which you can't question but if you're in any kind of art related world or performance related well that's gonna be subjected to that person's particular likes and dislikes and styles or what have you and I always tell my kids take what is beneficial to you and what you want to keep in your tool bag and don't completely discard the rest but put it in the not gonna work for me right now but I'll look at it later kind of bag that makes any sense okay for these sections I'm doing first I'm doing a quarter inch echo on the inside okay and then I'm just doing an organic random fill with leaves whirls and pebbles so I've got my stitches set up now too I'm going to 12 for this one okay again this is just random here we go so I usually do when I type something I come back out really big swirl and I'm going to go with the middle before we do another one I want to touch here I'm gonna do week and then I tend to like to put pebbles in the crevices before I start with something else really this is completely just random my echo something I try to keep it about 1/4 of an inch how the bobbin thread anytime I changed my bobbin I do use a big brush to brush the case out and on the inside typically I would put a drop of oil on the hook every time I change a bobbin but actually today I did some major oiling I took the the plate off and I ordered the hook on the top quite a few drops of oil and the hook on the inside and I kind of worked it around so I know I don't need any oil at the moment so I'm not going to do that I still have my ruler based on what you know sometimes gives a little bit of a drag when you're doing free motion stuff so actually I'll just talk about there's a couple things I do when I'm doing fills sometimes I take the ruler base off just so there's a little bit more freedom and I always leave my ruler foot on no matter what once I started using rulers I just never change it so I'm used to that taking the base off is one thing also I sometimes put my machine in manual for background fills for pebbles especially if I'm doing a large area of pebbles I may show you in just a few minutes going into manual but right now I'm still in regulated these are tomorrow happy with with a mask it with [Music] I'm working on an elongated swirl chain in this portion of the inner square okay I'm working on this part of the design if you can see it so I'm gonna start with let me use the curve at 12 for everything except the bigger one I'm going to go to a 16 for the larger I'm going to call it a pedal because these are sort of like tunnels and then inside there's going to be feathers outside will be pebbles so petals feathers and pebbles let's see I'm gonna take this back down to ten I like my basic lines to be 10 as you know okay I'm gonna go ahead and do this next one as well while I'm here [Applause] [Music] good I think what I'm gonna do I'm gonna I'm gonna echo that quarter of inch on the inside [Music] okay I'm gonna echo on the inside [Music] okay next I'm gonna do the side petals because I want them to be in front so the biggest petal will be behind so let's do these side ones first though I'm still using the 12 for this one and remember the angles the same on the inside as it is on the outside except it's not long enough for this one good and we'll go in and echo that [Music] okay I have to advance the quilt to do the next the next one [Music] okay from these shapes I'm going to fill in with feathers so for the Phils around the feathered petals I'm just doing peddling but I felt like I needed another quarter-inch separation from the print block so I'm actually adding that and then doing the pebbles so I'm just dropping my needle down at quarter-inch and then once I hit that puddle I'm stopping [Music] starting my coven I'm doing random sizes for the borders on this quilt I decided to do some dot-to-dot quilting with triangles so I basically did one set of triangles around the entire quilt and then the dot-to-dot created an effect within that triangle and then I did the same thing on the other side so what I ended up with was kind of an echo to triangle with a channel that was in between them and then I filled inside the channel and we'll see that here in just a second yeah the inside of the channel is kind of a very light scroll and on the outside of both sets of triangles are pebbles so pebbles on the outside pebbles on the inside and then the scroll so here's what the quilt ended up looking like when it's finished sorry you couldn't get a feel view here's a close-up with some of the detailed stitching on the inside that I did not film another shot with some detail of the organic work and that's the quilts so anyway I hope you enjoyed I certainly enjoyed sharing with you and as always I look forward to the next time I can bring you some content and like please thumbs up and subscribe if you want and I will see you next time bye bye [Music]

Channel: Michael Quilts

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Id: F084q2D-L3Q

Length: 36min 40sec (2200 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 21 2019