Quilting Pillow Panels: Live Chat & Demo with Angela Walters

hey everybody welcome to this week's live chat i'm angela walters from quilting is my therapy and every thursday at 3 pm central most every thursday i get on here and chat live but my setup might look a little different this time i'm trying something new fingers crossed it goes well i'm going to be doing a live machine quilting demo so i've got everything set up i've practiced hopefully we don't have any technical issues but you never know what's going to happen first of all i want to let you know that as i'm quilting the panel i'll talk a little bit more about that in a second but you can chat or comment with your questions and jessica is here kind of monitoring them and she might throw out some of your questions while i'm quilting or design ideas and making it a little bit more interactive so definitely feel free to put that on the chat before we get started though a couple things did you notice that i dropped a new episode of midnight quilter last week it's kind of like a in between season episode we'd actually filmed that one months ago but fabric for the kits was very delayed getting in so finally the fabric came and it was all about my love of the national parks and my love of going rving and there was a kit and a pattern that went around went with that so you can find that on my youtube channel but the reason i'm pointing it out here is that next week's live chat i'm going to talk a little bit about trimming half rectangle triangles i talked about that in the video and the pattern but i want to go into it just a little bit more detail and i'll give you tips for quilting panels and how to square them up so it'll be all about kind of embracing the nature side of our quilting selves but in our quilting room so that'll be next week all right this week though i'm going to be demonstrating the quilting on the pillow panel and this is called bouquet it's a pattern i designed that features the pillow panels from the flora and foliage challenge that we had not too long ago the video series so this is the kit i'm working on but i'm actually just working on a quarter of it because i'm very limited in space but i did want to point out that if you want to get a kit you can check that out on the website you can click the link in the description box and we'll have it there i did realize afterwards that some of you did buy the panels might want just the pattern so i'll put that out there eventually too so stay tuned for that so real quick before i start machine quilting let's kind of talk about what i'm doing and the supplies i have and kind of what's going on here so i have my setup i have my pillow panel my quarter of my bouquet kit and i'm going to start quilting on it first i want to point out thread so the challenge or the video series i did on the bigger panel comes with a coordinating thread collection however i want to be really sure that you can see what i'm doing so i have teal very dark teal thread in here so you can see it i would suggest however using a thread color that blends in with your pillow panel anytime i'm quilting any panels i don't really want the quilting to overwhelm the beautiful design of the fabric so matching thread color unless you're doing a live chat then if that's the case then do blending do a very contrasting color all right some other supplies i have here first of all i have my gloves i'm actually not going to be wearing these while i'm quilting because i'm kind of monitoring and flipping back and forth and i don't want to mess it up but if you are quilting along gloves are always a good option um something you can't see that's under my fabric is my supreme slider this is a teflon sheet and it just gives me a little bit more slickum if that's a word or less friction as i'm moving the quilt definitely helpful for larger quilts i started quilting on a long arm and then learned how to quilt on a sewing machine so i needed all the help i could get with moving that along now for larger quilts if you were going to work on the bouquet quilt or a bigger quilt i love these quilt rings they're real cheap real easy and basically you can roll up the bulk of your quilt and put the ring around it to kind of keep it out of the way i'm not working on anything too large here so i'm going to just keep the rings off but just a little things that might help make it a little bit easier now what i'm going to do is i'm going to switch the view of what you can see because you can't really see what i'm doing right here right there we go so now you have a close-up view of what's going on at my needle and then also just a little bit kind of of me backed up so you can see what the posture looks like just to kind of get both views i would love to hear your comments or your feedback on what you think how the setup goes because i can change it for future future things i also have some questions that i'll address at the end but for right now we're going to start quilting so i have my pillow panel i've already kind of tied off my thread because i didn't want to deal with any of that while i was quilting and the first thing i'm going to say when you're working with panels is you can use the design as a guideline for your quilting so what i'm going to do is just kind of work my way around kind of echoing these little areas and then if i want i can add another echo or two in the bigger areas to kind of keep it the same density of course you can change that up if you'd like so we're going to start with this one and do that now i'm trying to keep it as close as i can to the actual line but i'm not stressing out about it we're just going for kind of the i don't know the overall gist of it and especially if i'm using blending thread color it's not going to matter but i'm going to go right into my next little piece and this is just going to help define those sections maybe a few echo lines in there just to you know add a little bit more quilting and i'm going to keep working my way out out until i get to the outside of my flower jessica how's everything going now again i'm using that contrasting color so you can kind of see what's going on so i'm going to fill in this area right here when i start quilting a panel i'm not too worried about i don't know what design goes where i'm just kind of having fun with the placement that's already there now we learned pebbles in our flora and foliage challenge so i think i'll go with that so we had a good question do i recommend using the straight stitch plate when you're free motion quilting um i do have my straight stitch plate on all the time because i don't do a lot of decorative stitches it really helps me with those half square triangles um but ultimately i don't think it makes that big of a difference it's really up to you i haven't actually been asked that question a whole lot so that's fun and you can see some pebbles right there now one thing that i love to do is i don't one thing i don't love to do is to break threads so if i need to get to another area i'm going to use traveling or echoing or the design to do that so i can move on do some serpentine lines in there that's always a favorite of mine to fill in those irregular areas good question how would i handle a skit stitch if not on camera well it depends on how big that skip stitch is and where it's at sometimes i might just kind of go back and cross over it when i get next to it again but if it's pretty off pretty noticeable and it's a you know important quilt i might just rip out the quilting and get back over there if i don't notice it till it's too late then i'm just going to go back and stitch right on the top of it that's a good question too see how about some wishbones now it might feel that all these different designs can be a little bit overwhelming to the panel but remember if i'm using a matching thread color it really isn't going to be too much this is a great opportunity to practice some different fillers and have fun within those defined edges of course if you don't want the stress of that if just like thinking about that freaks you out just add some more echo lines and fill it in or pick one or two fillers and switch out between them question did you plan out what you will stitch prior to starting that's a good question did i plan out what i was going to stitch prior to starting i did not i thought i kept thinking i probably should but then i thought i'm just going to wing it it'll be fine um so i'm just kind of making this up on the fly which is very typical of me if you if you talk to anybody that works with me they'll know that's pretty much how i work so now i'm going to do like a little half feather just to fill in that irregular area kind of treating one side of my area as a spine and then making that feather kind of come out from it i love how it kind of gives that wrapping effect and just looks really kind of i don't know um custom and elegant even though we didn't necessarily learn this in the challenge it's one that i used to love a lot like one i use a lot so once i have my flower kind of filled in a little bit i'm going to stick on over to these leaves now i don't like to do difficult stuff over the whole quilt so in this area i'm going to keep it pretty simple with some echo lines and then we'll trans we'll kind of transfer into the wood grain that's in the background of the block we'll say one of my worst habits is this right here i'm not very good about keeping my hands close to my needle so i'll try to be better about that it's a bad habit i picked up try not to pick it up i'll just keep going and pretty soon my elbows will be quilting for me it's just you don't get the best results from that maybe after i fill in this and do a little bit of wood grain you all can make some design requests and jessica could shoot them out to me and i could put what you want to see or if i if you request something i don't know how to do it i'll just ignore her so we'll just try that now in the pillow panel i did design the background so that it would be continuous you could quilt along the lines of the wood grain design so i'm going to go ahead and do that and then if i ever get stuck and i'm like i can't get to the next line i'm going to use traveling along the edge to get there and then continue on again we're just kind of going for the gist of it i'm not trying to stress out too much about keeping that quilting directly on the lines the more you stress about it the harder it'll be to do it so just try to relax and be very zen-like just chill it's gonna be fine that's such a good question so somebody asked jessica passed on thank you how do i decide what to quilt it's very tricky it depends on every person every quilt everything i'm working on so it's always a little different generally if i had to give you like a guideline i would say pick out the most important thing about the quilt and then use the quilting to highlight it the good news is the more designs that you pick out the more you learn what you do and don't like and sometimes knowing what not to do is just as important as knowing what to do i know that's not super helpful as far as you know specifics but another thing i will do if i'm not sure i just can't pick something i'll try sketching out the block or trying to sketch out design ideas but really the best results come when i just start quilting and that's when the ideas will usually start flowing that's always the number one question you know how do i build it now again go ahead um stitching in the ditch yes i normally stitch in the ditch as i go so here since i'm kind of using that seam to travel along i'm stitching in the ditch as i quilt it in but i'm not worried that every little bit is stitched down um i'm just kind of using it as a way to move in between my designs now that being said i do love the way it looks so if i'm quilting a quilt i usually will stitch in the ditch even if i don't need it to move around i just like the way it looks sometimes i'll do it before sometimes after it just really just depends on the situation but you have to know that no matter what i say i do it's totally up to you i'm just the expert of my opinion so there's that and i'm using this contrasting thread that really shows up that dark wood green or dark thread so you can see what i'm doing this is for your benefit but remember if you're going for a lovely texture or just a nice addition to your panel using a matching thread color like that pink rose or a light pink would be perfect red painting yes i can do that i'm not going to switch out thread colors though just because you know switching out thread colors is never fun when people are watching but we can do talk about throwing down some thread normally with thread painting you would switch colors you would use the different colors of thread to kind of create that effect and maybe jessica that would be a good idea to do in a future live chat um i have to kind of prepare like a pit crew to try to be really fast on my thread changes or have maybe the basics laid down anyway but yes i'll show a little bit of that here in a second the trick to stitching along a line whether it's a design or it's a previously quilted line is to look ahead of where you're going so i'm not actually looking at the needle i'm looking beyond it to see where i need to go and i'm just trusting my hands to move me to that point and i'm trying to move smoothly because a smooth line will look perfect even if it's not and i'm just kind of you know trying to be relaxed about it and if that line comes off a little bit it's okay i promise nobody's gonna notice and if they notice just tell them it's supposed to be that way it's a design choice now here when i'm stitching in the ditch i'm just kind of freehanding it but if i was really concerned because i was using contrasting thread or i really want it to be nice i could use my ruler to do that i'm going to grab my slim ruler real quick so for those i might kind of come along here or anything that's a little bit longer this is only about a half of an inch so i can freehand that for the most part but if it was bigger i would definitely probably get my ruler out just to be sure i'm not a perfectionist in the fact that i needed to be perfect to be done but i do like it to look nice so there is that all right now the cool thing about this wood grain as a filler is that it allows me to kind of transition in and out of that flower so i quilted my flower up here i quilted a little bit of spiller and now i'm already getting to the next flower so we can do something different and i think i could do a little bit of thread painting or kind of talk about how you can layer thread on top of each other to get that different effect now i know that i'm demoing this on a sewing machine and some of the people asked in the live chat before the chat before i went live what about the long armors i'll give some tips here in just a second when i go back to my regular screen but maybe one of these days we'll try to figure out how to do that on the long run all right so again i'm traveling in and out so i can get where i need to go using that seam the fake seam or the design now i have to point out that the reason i don't like traveling or i don't like breaking thread so much is because when i started long arming my long arm didn't have a needle up and down button so every time i had to you know break thread i had to hand crank this wheel so i got very adverse to that so that being said it might just be easier for you to break thread so it's totally up to you all right so i have sectioned out my area right here and i'll try a little bit of thread painting basically where i'm going to keep quilting and quilting mostly just for the effect of it not so much for the construction of it so i'm going to stick with those feathers that i did over here those partial feathers so let's pull a couple of those again i like how they wrap around they feel those irregular areas and i will say i normally pull a little bit faster than this i'm just going slower so you can hear me over the sound of the machine but you'll find a speed that works for you now if i were quilting this design just some pretty feathers let me cut it back out so you can see quilting my feathers this would be perfect i wouldn't need to add any more traveling unless i wanted to get on to the you know i needed to do that but what i'm gonna do here is i'm just gonna put some right on top of each other this is really going to build that up it's going to draw attention to it it's going to be kind of like showing off a little bit so make sure you do this in an area of the quilt that you love and that you really really want to highlight and what's nice about it is if you don't get that travel line on there perfectly the first time just keep going and eventually you know you'll get on there so building it up and what kind of happens is that denser quilting will draw your attention to the area but you'll also get that pop of unquilted area that looks gorgeous too so definitely a lot of fun now if i had thyme or other thread colors i could switch into a different color and put it right on top of there and really just kind of either blend in some colors together or really show it off but again i don't want to try that right now just kind of build that up i will say i do get bored pretty easily so switching between designs is a lot of fun so if i felt you know the need i could maybe throw any other design requests ooh yeah swirl hooks i love it spiral hooks so that's usually a better filler in for bigger areas swirl hooks because that point just really gets into those irregular areas so what i'm going to do is instead of quilting each of these little sections separately i'm going to join them together and quilt the swirl hooks around it so this would be better for those of you that aren't as comfortable quilting so small or don't want something so dense so maybe in the rest of this flower i'll quilt swirl hooks and i'll leave the center kind of by itself so let's go into that it's kind of funny sometimes i get to quilting and i get so in the zone that i kind of you know forget to talk but that's what's fun about quilting kind of your brain goes somewhere while you do it but that swirl hook is just kind of keeping close that hook is keeping close to something else it's just giving it a little bit more of a pointy look and it just really kind of fills in those irregular areas i have tons of tutorials on this so you can check it out if you want to see a little bit more about how to do this design now i want to point out in general i'm not a big fan of turning the quilt i like to try to keep the quilt in the same direction as much as possible not saying i won't do it but here i am going to do it because i'm getting ready to run into my computer over here so a little a little different reason there but i don't want to knock that over so we actually saw this swirl hook in the swirls challenge the swirls video series so you can check that out as well where i kind of work through the basic swirl and we add a hook to it and learn how to elongated swirl so that could be a good option for those of you if you're wanting to learn that one fill that in and i have the little center of my quilt or my center of my flower unquilted i forgot to handle that while i was in there i meant to get back in and add some pebbling so at this point i have an option i can just travel in and do it or i could just say you know what i love the look of the unquilted area and how it really sets off against the denser quilting i think i'll go with the second option so there's a swirl hook any other design request do you alternate direction of the squirrel um alternating direction of the swirl is totally up to you i alternate direction because that's just kind of my my habit although it depends on where i need to go but for the most part yes but you don't have to how about some ribbon candy oh yes a paisley feather would be fun i'll just second so what color bobbin thread do you use well if i'm changing thread color i used to say change your bobbin color to match your top thread but now i use pre-wounds because i'm hopelessly addicted to them it's it's pretty sad slash impressive how many uh pre-wounds i have on stock but so what i do is i'll pick a neutral color in the value a neutral and the value of the top thread so this is a dark green teal color so i probably would use a um like a darker gray or darker tan depending on that but if you are changing thread colors you could just um using the same color would be good it just prevents those pokeys from showing up where that bobbin thread shows up to the top that's that's never any fun when that happens so okay paisley or plume feather with a plume feather right or a paisley feather peacock or paisley okay quilter's choice let's see well i don't have a whole lot of room i'll do a let's do a plume feather first i have a little bit more room for that and i'll put it over i'll put over here so i know you can't see what i'm doing but there's a little bit of area around the side here that i'll i'll work that in as my background filler the plume feather and the paisley feather both are a little bit more of a motif kind of design or a block filler design but i don't have the right kind of block for that so let's just go for it i'm going to start with my little spine and for the paisley or the plume feather i'll show you both but for the plume feather it's going to end in a swirl and a hook so kind of like that swirl hook that we just saw a nice little swirl and that hook will kind of point out to the top and there's like the plume of our feather and it's kind of going to go horizontally here and then i'm going to add my serpentine lines working my way down that spine and echo that spine back up and then do it again and then go all the way back to where i started one thing that i do want to point out is when i'm filming my tutorials all the different repositioning of the quilt the smoothing out the getting it where it needs to go i always edit that out just so it makes the video a little bit more quicker paste but it's very important to remember that you do have to pause reposition your hands move that quilt it'll just make things a lot more easier so this little plume feather is sitting in an irregular area perfect i kind of like how it um let's see if i can turn it you can see it i kind of like how it does that because it just fills that area nice and perfectly makes it easy easy to do so there we can see it right there don't be afraid to use designs in different ways i think that's when we have a lot of fun with the machine quilting where i'm like oh i normally put this in a border but maybe i could put it in this walk kind of fun all right how about a paisley feather and what i'll do is after i'm done i'll take some pictures of the sample and i'll put it um on the website so on that there's a link in the description box that has all the information you see here but i'll put the pictures there too so you can kind of see the bigger finished result all right paisley feather sometimes it's hard to see where i'm going so to kind of reach around and look back there and i've got a little bit more area over there so i'll get to there and that's where i'll put it again i would love everybody's comments if you leave a comment on the video let me know what you think about this if this is something we'd like to do in the future i definitely haven't found that myself all right paisley feather kind of starts the same way as that plume feather that elongated kind of um swirl ends in that swirl and then i'm gonna just echo it though so i'm gonna echo echo echo lots of echoing on this design this is a design that i call like a party trick if you can do it people are super impressed but it's so easy because it's just a lot of echoing echo echo echo after i have my first little spine or my little thing right there i'm gonna start adding paisleys off the back now we did see this in the flora and foliage challenge so you can definitely check that out if you haven't seen it but the trick is you have to remember to keep going if you're quilting it and it looks weird that means you're on the right track you have to keep going so i'm going to work my way around this swirl and we'll see what it looks like there's no traveling and no touching but i have this little unquilted area over here you can't see but i want to handle that while i'm there so if this were an actual quilt i mean it is an actual quilt but i don't want to leave this gap before i go anywhere else so i'm going to echo back and fill it in before i finish that paisley feather so that's kind of a tricky thing to show in a tutorial because you know i want to keep it on the point but this is actually how i would apply it to this area so what i'm going to fill it in with it depends i'm just going to have it blend in so i'll just do some more paisleys and echo lines to fill that in and then i'll travel back on out and then finish my paisley feather now i'm pretty good at leaving projects half finished and then coming back and finishing them so this is a natural thing for me but if you don't like that you could finish your feather and then worry about the area around it later a word i do like any word yeah i can do that so quilting letters is a lot of fun in fact for newer machine quilters you'll find this really easy because you already know how it goes together a couple of things to take into consideration with words are the letters i j t x any of those that you would normally pick up your pencil but i'll show you how to deal with those and i'm going to keep adding my little paisleys until i run out of room i kind of closed off my swirl here that's how i quilt it and then so i'm going to work my way back out with echoing fillness area and then i'll add a little word right there how about that adding some filler again i want to handle any of those gaps while i'm there because i know i'll forget about it so if i wanted to you know add another paisley feather hooked onto this one i would just echo to the side and then just go right into my next one but i don't so i won't and let's do i don't know i think maybe i'll do a word here maybe down here i'll do it over there so you can see it better all right quilting letters so first of all i want some kind of guideline i've got my thread shedded shredded so i'm going to echo these little um i want some kind of guideline to quilt my letters on so i just quilted a little little wavy line just kind of echoed that and i'm going to go right into my letters so i'm going to quilt happy quilting so i'm just going to go right into my letters just like you would normally so happy is pretty easy there's no um of those tricky letters this is such a fun way to add little messages in your quilts or just have kind of fun time i'm happy and then i'm going to go into my quilting so then i'm going to use the traveling along that baseline to get to the next letter if i add a bunch of quilting in between that might blend them in and i'm just going to clip off that thread knot there normally i would have taken care of that before i moved on okay so quilting let's do a capital q i'm gonna use traveling to get where i need to go thank you and then i'm gonna go into my u all right here's the trick when i get to those triculators like the eye i'm going to handle that dot while i'm there so i'm going to go to the top little circle and back down same with the t so i'll just back up across another eye so it's a little tricky on that one but get the first couple one to be fine now if this were an actual quilt happy quilting i'm going to fill in that little gap right there again we know i like to fill those gaps i realize i'm a little bit um anal i guess about that i'll be demoing in a class well it's been a while but i would demo in a class and then like hold on i gotta fill this in before i go anywhere else um so that's a little weird i guess all right so what i would do now is i would make sure i left a little bit of space for those letters i wouldn't make the quilting go right up in those letters i would leave a little bit of space so you can see that it's there if i put if i put it too close it's going to blend in a little bit more now if you're writing something that's a little more secretive well then you could do that put the filler really close but in this instance i want it to stand out all right i happen to be at a triangle right here let's do a little dots not quilting unless there's been any other requests no more pebbles more pebbles yeah i could do some pebbles all right so dot dot quilting is a fun geometric design again another challenge that i've done i'm going to use the ruler here because i love using my ruler that's why i always have the ruler foot on my machine because i love to switch bring that ruler in and out as needed um did a whole video series on dot dot so you can check that out but you don't have to use your ruler if you're not comfortable with that you could just freehand it just a little bit more organic totally fine with that but on a long arm i would definitely use a ruler for any kind of diagonal line i don't um i don't like doing diagonal lines on the long arm without a ruler it's just not fun but i'll freehand the rest again using a matching thread color will help it blend in even those little bottles and if you've watched any of my videos or any of my tutorials or anything at all you know i always say people will notice a gap in the quilting before they notice an error so that unquilted area is going to pop out so even if your lines aren't perfectly straight it doesn't matter blending thread all you'll see is that pretty little geometric shape so don't try not to stress out too much about that all right pebbles more pebbles so pebbles are something that get kind of a bad wrap i mean they're they can be tricky but the actual way they go together is pretty easy so once you get the shape you're pretty good to go so i'm going to kind of fill this in with some wavy and let's do some pebbles over here all right the trick to pebbles that was in the fluorine foliage challenge so you can check out the video but the trick is to change direction so kind of like a figure eight or clockwise counterclockwise and i need to make sure that i'm traveling as well so a lot of things to think about circle travel change direction now that traveling is just a way for me to get to the next one so i'm not worried about oh did i travel this one too many or that one not enough i'm not worried about that but traveling will help me go in different directions but i do want to make sure that happens cool thing about pebbles is you can make them all really tiny like a filler you can make them all different sizes give it a fun different effect you can make it nice and big or you can go into like a loopy design so you can do a lot with them i don't use them a whole lot because they're tedious and they take a long time especially the way i hold them so but i will use them as a way to highlight an area and i cannot wait until tula shows her butterfly quilt because i quilted feathers in it and quilted pebbles right up next to the feather but after about an inch or two after i got away from the feather about an inch or two then i went into swirls i could say i love the juxtaposition of the two different designs but it's just quicker for me to pull swirls than pebbles so i kind of got off track on that pebble what's nice about all this traveling is if i need to move my way around like let's say i get over here and i'm stuck i can just kind of travel back on over all around and get where i need to go again using a matching thread color will be really really helpful for that all right enough pebbles there is nothing wrong with using contrasting thread great great choice um great question the reason i say a blending thread color is really nice is because it just helps you see the texture of the quilting it doesn't um show the quilting as much so if you're a newer quilter which usually in my challenges were a little bit newer that kind of makes it a little less overwhelming contrasting thread though looks gorgeous especially if it's in the same value as the design so in this dark teal i could have used that pretty pink color that looks so nice that darker pink because it's the same value so you get a little pop of that color but not not a whole lot of the con not the overwhelming contrast i guess so no you can definitely use contrasting thread it just depends on the quilt and who you're quilting for since i quilted for customers so long i always used a blending thread color because as much as they loved me they weren't trying to show off my quilting they're trying to show off their um their quilts so it's a really a personal preference i promise i'm glad somebody asked that because i don't want to make it sound like you know you can't you can't contrast you can definitely do that it's a wishbone another thing you can do with your pillow panels if you don't want to separate each little area out you can kind of just quilt the whole flower as one and even though i started doing some wishbone here i'll finish it but then i could just do a flower design right over the top of the flower it doesn't have to perfectly mimic the flower it doesn't have to do anything except give that little bit of a hint of what it is it's just using that inspiration as you're using the design as inspiration for your quilting it's funny because sometimes when people ask me oh what should i quilt on this quilt i'll say what's your favorite thing about it they say the flowers i'm like let's quilt some flowers that sounds great so let's do i think i'm gonna go about this i'm gonna do kind of like a feathery flower a feathery spiral i like to make it wrap around there a little bit and then as i come out all right and then i can use that swirl as the spine of my feather so kind of like a flower i like wrapping around it's a little too big for one big flower so i want to add some echoing on that inside to kind of make that area smaller i'm using a little bit more of a custom feather because this is one of my favorites but i could have done you know the other feather that doesn't have the traveling it's just up to you and i'm just quilting right along the lines of the panel i'm not even taking into regard the different design and you might think like oh that's going to ruin it but when you step back your eye still sees the design it kind of looks through the quilting much like if you're like ever had to look through a fence to watch a game like a baseball game or something you kind of stop start to ignore the fence after a while so don't think that something like this will ruin the panel it's just going to add a nice texture and kind of join those smaller pieces and make it a little easier sometimes dealing with quilts with little tiny pieces can be tricky so always like put them together make them a bigger area and then fill it in and come back out now i'm going to be honest i was meaning to do a different feather there but a different flower but when i got in the center i forgot where to go and so i just came back out so that was that's just an unintended uh variation of that so all right i got one little area left and probably should wrap up because a little bit longer any other design requests no okay so this is my choice hmm i've done enough feathers maybe in here i'll do some more swirl hooks i'll fill this little leaf area and then i have a few questions to answer i hope everybody can see it's matching thread color that wasn't a great choice remember it's more important that you fill in the whole area than being perfect as long as everything's filled in it's going to look good and there i have my my swirl hook in there all right let's switch back to where we were so i hope you've enjoyed watching the demo i'll post pictures of this on the website also post the pattern if anybody already has the panels a couple questions i want to talk about real quick um what about the long armors right i'm demoing on the sewing machine that's really because it's a lot easier to film a sewing machine than a long arm since the long arm's moving everywhere we are going to try to figure that out we're going to jessica's going to work with me we're going to figure that out eventually so don't worry but if you are quilting the pillow panel on your long arm the best tip i can give you is to just beware those small small areas on a long room it's hard to kind of control the movement if you're newer to it and so you know maybe joining up and quilting each feather separate each flower as one whole flower might be a little bit easier those of you that have had your long arm long enough know exactly what you're doing then picking different fillers and filling it in is going to be a great option of course in the background i'm always going to do the wood grain because i designed it that way but you could use those lines as guides to put other designs in between it so you can put some pebbles in between there or you can go with a different filler all your own last suggestion i'll make if you really want those flowers to pop out using the matching thread colors the aerial help doing that will help do that but also echoing the whole thing outside the whole thing will help kind of separate it from that filler so always a couple things that i like to do when dealing with panels okay a couple questions great question so corinne asked how many ufos do i have or do i finish all my quilts as i go that's adorable because i'm sure you can probably guess i'm not really good at finishing all mine i will say i probably don't have as many ufos as some quilters because i have a great staff that help me do the parts i don't like so there's that now i have some really old ufos though i have quilts that have been mocking me for for over 10 years so i do have some ufos that need to get finished but you know they get done when they get done i try not to let them put any judgment on me and then this wasn't really a question but i'm going to throw this out to you so you can help out laurie mentioned that she has lost her sojo her sewing mojo she wondered if i knew where it was if she had if i had found it somewhere um i've been there when you're in a creative kind of endeavor you can just lose your you just lose your sojourn you just kind of get burnt out a little bit and so i love everybody leave a comment say what you do to kind of help get re-inspired with your with your quilting whether it's piecing or whatever i will say for me when i'm feeling burnt out i clean my quilting room one because i like to start over i mean i'm not a super tidy person but just having it nice and clean and i also know that once i start going through all my goodies i'm gonna find something that's gonna spark my interest so there's that or i try to start a new project i know you're like but i have so many ufos well maybe you they're not you know they're not inspiring you right now so maybe switching to something different but i know that everybody has their little tips in the chat before i went live a lot of people were giving suggestions so leave that in the comments i would love to see what you do to keep your your uh sewing slash quilting mojo going all right well thank you for joining me if you have any questions about some of the designs i've shown leave them in the comments after this live video is over and i'll be glad to go back there and answer love to check in and make sure everybody's doing great and hopefully i'll see you next week where we'll go live and we'll kind of switch gears to more piecing we'll talk about half rectangle triangles trimming and panels and we'll talk specifically about the woodland drive quilt well thanks so much for watching everybody have a great week happy quilting and i'll see you very soon

Channel: Angela Walters

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Length: 43min 25sec (2605 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 15 2021