Quilting Techniques with Linda V Taylor

well hello there today we will be spicing up our traditional sambanisu with repeat blocks that are the same but different i go to a lot of shows and often at these shows i see places where you can go and buy quilt tops that are already pieced and a lot of those quilt tops are really cute now this quilt top that i bought is of some bonus sue and it is hand pieced which means and hand applique but i have to tell you it's not the very best work but it's so cute and i can make it just fantabulous by doing the quilting on it the squares are not all squares some of them are mis-shaped the some of the piecing i've had to uh work with because it's coming off so the applique you can see the stitches there are some stains on it there's places on it where you know of course they're not meeting exactly and you know i love that because it's a challenge for me to figure out how to quilt that to make it look fantastic so i hope that the ideas that i show you today will encourage you to do some of these quilts how old this quilt is i'm not exactly sure i know the fabrics are old it looks like many of them were from old dresses and things like that which makes it even more endearing to me and i'm going to be giving it to my granddaughter when i'm finished so i um want to show you what i did to quilt that and i first of all decided i would do circles around these sun bonnet shoes and that would complete some of the sashing ideas for me but um i used two different machines to do those circles i wanted to use my computerized machine and some of you have a computerized machine so this will work for you and so i want to show you how i did that on the on the computerized machine as well as the greek key i decided to put a greek key over these corner sets in the sashings because they were so odd shaped none of them are square and by putting this greek key over it really brings your eye and makes you focus on it but does not focus on the piecing that isn't quite as perfect as some piecing especially our piecing today so let's take a look at how i quilted that on my computerized machine and then i'll show you how i can do it on my traditional machine i just bring it to the center which i found on the square and push ok moves into position and takes a stitch and then i just push go and our circle is finished now we're ready to place a greek key in the square for the greek key i just need to click around the box i'm going to do a quick pause and cut my thread all done didn't that circle turn out neat on the computer and the greek key i'm very pleased with that i also did the larger circle on this square because my circle maker and my workstation won't do a 15 inch circle so i did that one on the computerized there's an advantage for that and also i want to mention some of you don't have as big of a throat on your machine so you may need to divide your circles maybe even draw them on and then roll juice part of it and then roll but i'm lucky i have a 30 inch machine to begin with i stabilized this quilt by going around each and every square and just went all the way through the quilt before i placed my circles on it then once the circles are placed i come back and i find the center of each of these some bonnet shoes and believe me those were all over the place some of them are on the bonnet some of them are on the body of the sun bonnet sue so that was an interesting experience but finding the center of that particular block is real important then i can bring my machine over set my needle down there and then i'll go around it on the back using my circle maker okay i have the center that i placed my needle over the center that i marked and then i found the center back here and placed my circle maker on my workstation and so now i can come over and go into the circle that i need and i just bring up my thread and hold it behind and then stitch around and i'll just over stitch when i get to the place where i started and then from the back i will raise that and skip down another inch and go around there how wonderful that is easy okay now i'm going to do the greek key over the square and it's a this little four patch and you can see that it's not not pieced very well but i will start in the middle and this is of course doing it all by hand and you could use channel locks if you have channel locks but i think if you just move your just like this and let me get rid of this um little thread so that i don't have to worry about that again there we go you see i'm just using oh a little bit less than a quarter of an inch and if i just hold the machine carefully and just move horizontally vertically like this it's pretty darn easy to do and it's really fun and just pause in the corner now if you don't have regulated stitch make sure that you um don't pause too long in the corner just continue all the way out and this divides those little squares actually into triangles so the eye is distracted by those triangles and doesn't look at the squareness of it and while i'm doing this i will stop now and i'm doing some little feathers here a large one in the center come back over here and do the same thing and so i'm filling in these other areas so easily and this really goes with this somebody sue because these little feathers almost look like little flowers so cute so that whole area is finished now next i needed to stitch around each of the sunbonnet shoes and i wanted to do this in a very continuous manner and i have a little arm there and so i want to make sure that i get that arm stitched around so i found that if i started right here where the bonnet meets with the front and i'm going to put my applique helper on like this and then i'll just come down the bonnet like this following the bonnet and then just a stitch or two over to the arm and then i can go all the way around that arm and i'm using 14 stitches to the inch i always have people that ask me that but i would use at least 12. back up the bonnet and now i'm coming down the side of the dress my left hand just helps me with this now around the foot i went around the dress first and then back around the foot and then i just went across that dress again it's not going to be a problem to have two lines of stitching there so i didn't have to start and stop again getting up here now i can go around the bonnet and i will just get that little thread out of the way right now and cut that i have to deal with that and around the bonnet like this and um as i come back down to here i am going to tell you that we're doing five different since there's five blocks across and six blocks down i decided to do across all five doing a different design now this first design that i'm going to do is going to be in i'm doing it in constant and i'm doing lines like this and then i do a little bit of a meandering then i'll do lines like this again just to kind of break up the stipple a little bit and you see i just came right out from where i was so all of this is very continuous just back and forth like that i don't want to do really heavy quilting on this so i wanted to come up with some designs that were different that would look really terrific and the other idea i had was to do them alternate them so that when i'm finished they will all be in a diagonal and i'll show you what i mean there we go and i'll just end on that line right there and that finished that block for me except for the bonnet which we're going to do in the next episode let's take a look at this you can see on the first row i did this design here and so on the second row i'm doing it here on the third row i did it there this design i'm doing i'm starting at the bottom and i'm still in a constant mode but you could do this in regulated and i'm doing my feathers so i just kind of up and follow the circle over follow the circle kind of a teardrop shape this is just a long arm feather just coming out and over just follow that feather up and over like this now when i get to the top i'm going to do kissing feathers so i will bring the feather all the way over right there then follow the circle over and then reverse the direction that i'm doing the feathers but the feathers are all pointing up so that just changed the direction for me as i follow this down i'm following the circle and i am coming right out into the sashing because i want to have whatever design i'm doing filling in the entire circle coming around and you could do this with any of the quilts that you have with repeating blocks there we go on this block i decided to just put some circles in and just fill them in and so i'm i'm using my crosshatch circles because you can use them for cross hatching you can also use them for circles and you really have to hold that down as you get started there i'm going to have to put my hand over here in front for a second then i'll move my finger try to get my fingers out of the way so you can see what i'm doing these are tiny so there we go and you see that made a circle isn't that amazing and then i'm just going to put some pattern meandering inside this one and what i did was try to move when i start and stop the circle in a different place so that those pattern meanderings are not all horizontal or vertical but they're all different this one is a little bit bigger just put the finger there come around like that and i think i can do more of a diagonal patterning in here you can see i've also put little pebbles in them or you could even just come back the other direction and make it kind of a informal cross-hatching look like that and again i'll use the little one and just do another one down here you could even do a partial one having it come off somewhere just have a half of one they're easy to go around so those were very fun and kind of uh a very different look in this square i'm around the sambanatsu i want to echo and so i have stitched around her by using my applique helper and now i am going to go into my constant and i'll just come out about a foot width and echo and you'll see i'm starting to hit over here which means i won't get back to that area again and up at the top that's the last time around that one so i can show you how we can still get over there and i'll just sort of follow the side over here like that and over this is just a regular like quarter inch echo kind of nice on this one because i can just go right out on the outside there we go so i can just go out on the outside like this and come over otherwise i would have just followed a circle over very carefully i wouldn't have stopped and started it's just not um time efficient to do that and following another line is is easy to do and perfectly acceptable as long as you are careful and stay on the line so i'm just finishing this right out inside the circle not worrying about the sashing there we go for the fifth uh design around the sunbonnet suez i've just stitched around her and now i want to do pattern meandering but it needs to be and i don't i didn't usually mark this because i'm just using the circle so i'm just kind of drawing these lines i know that they're really hard to see in this but this is kind of what you want it's like spokes you want them to come out so that um when you're doing it they are they're all centered toward the center of her so let me show you what i mean now they'll come out here like this but i'm using the circle out here as my guide the edge of my circle as if i were going into the middle each time so just think that you're going into the middle each time except that you won't be because you'll be going to the edge of somebody soo and again they're going to be a little wider out there and then narrower in here as if i were going into the center if i had those lines so this is a fun one to do and an easy one to do so i'll come in here and one more line out here and then i'll stop right there and that completed all five of the designs around the sun bonnet shoes now in another episode the next episode we're going to do each bonnet differently i'd like you to take a look at the quilt that i have behind me it's another top that i bought and it i think the setting on this one is really cute and we'll be doing that in some future episodes too so can't get enough of some bonnet soon

Channel: Linda V. Taylor

Views: 949

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords: quilting, longarm, shortarm, quilt, rulers, techniques, gammill

Id: Jedvweqe7Ms

Length: 19min 2sec (1142 seconds)

Published: Thu May 20 2021