The Idiot Quilter Ep4- Free Motion Quilting Made Easy?

[Music] hi everybody its Steven here for bland designs and for the idiot quilter my new series and I'm sitting in my sewing room don't mind the stuff in behind me or off to the side that's my little pin cushion but I thought I would talk to you today just about a couple of things that I have and that I've discovered and what I've been working on and there's a company it's out in Edmonton Alberta a Canadian company called sparrow quilt company now I watch through videos all the time and they've got some fantastic products um that only you can get only from them as far as I know prices that this company are a bit on the expensive side but then materials for quilting anyways tend to be a little bit on the expensive side so that's no surprise however barring that I think their products are great well they've just come out with a new product and this product is basically to help you do what would look like free motion quilting on your quilts but you follow a pattern now this is an idea I was thinking about just the other day believe it or not and I was thinking well what would happen if you were to draw a pattern on a piece of deli paper or and lay that on top of a square in your quilt and sew through it the same way as you do a paper piecing foundation which is what I did with the string quilt that I'm working on and I'm thinking well that might work well but lo and behold when you know spero quilt just came out with the same idea ah the only difference is they're printing them on really long pieces of paper I think they're about 48 inches long and I'm not really sure how wide they are might be 18 inches or something like that don't quote me on that I'm not absolutely sure but essentially you lay them down across your quilt top they're designed so you if you don't have enough of the paper like if your quilts bigger than what they come in in the length you can match them up very easily there's guide marks on it and they were using like a repositionable spray to lay it down on top of the quilt and then away you go you use your free motion quilting foot and you just follow the design and lo and behold you've basically looked like you've done free motion quilting and essence you have only you're following an outline so I got thinking well that would be really great to have except two things that held me back from ordering it immediately one the price I guess it's not bad but they seem to range in price like if you buy a single pattern I think you get four sheets that are 48 inches long by what 16 18 inches wide that kind of thing um we're around eighteen nineteen dollars I think um you may have dependent on the design to Canadian Plus you got paid for shipping and everything like that since it's an Edmonton Alberta and I live outside of Toronto Ontario so noise I'm thinking well what makes that so special why couldn't I draw my own design or print a design onto a piece of deli paper and do the same thing so I thought I experiment and so this is what I did I took a design now I will admit that I kind of took this design from a website I just copied the picture and I put it into it was a little different size than this I made it into an 8x8 size because I can't print at it I could print uh no I can't print on my printer at 10 by 10 square because my printer of course will only handle eight and a half by 11 sheets paper so I reduced it to eight by eight in Photoshop printed it out and first I created out on a piece of deli paper but the deli paper didn't really go through my printer very well it kind of tore up although I there's a way around that because I have printed on deli paper before but since I was just doing this quick to check it out to see how this would work I got out a piece of tracing paper which is essentially like deli paper except it doesn't have one side with you know a waxy shiny surface which I don't think for this process that really matters print it out as you see here then I made a little arm quilt square just practice one to try and here's the first thing that I I'm not really fond of when it comes to what Sparrow quilt is offering Sparrow quilts is to use a repositionable spray I get that and that's a great way to hold it down but then you're gonna have to wash your quilt afterwards to get out the spray to date I have not washed one of my quilts I'm a little afraid to for one thing I should bite the bullet and just go ahead and wash one and see what happens um but I haven't done that yet so I wasn't really wanting to use a repositionable spray but I thought well this is such a small square I'll just pin it and I did I just pinned it down so I went ahead followed the lines using my quilting foot and away I went now yeah that does work it makes it pretty easy to follow although I still need practice and getting around these curves I was getting them perfect but I guess that's not really a major problem that comes with practice and yeah that works so here I'll show you I tried it two times uh this one came out this is my second efforts my first and you see it's little jakey this one I got a little bit more in the swing of it so yeah it will work okay but here's the problem I really have with it and this is why well two things why I'm not going to order any of this from Sparrow quilt now let me say on the onset I am NOT cutting up sparrow quilt company I think this is a great idea and for some people this was be great for them to use what I didn't like is trying to get the paper off now she mentioned that birdy that's a spiral quilt that she should have made her stitches a little smaller because that would perforate the paper better and you could get it pulled off the only problem you have with that is from what I understand and I could wrong about this after all I am an idiot quilter is that if you make the stitches too small it makes your quilt stiffer so it all depends on what you're doing if it's gonna be a wall hanging I don't think that's a big problem if you're actually going to use it on a bed or something then I think you want to be a little bit more fluffy so you want a wider stitch as far as I know again it could be wrong anyways I did shorten the stitch a little bit but when it came to pulling off the paper that was a um the paper comes off but it doesn't come off in one piece of course it's all these little pieces and then you get pieces cut underneath your stitches and you have to carefully with a pair of tweezers or if you've got long fingernails pick those out I could see on a full-sized quilt that this is going to take you a long time to get that paper off now here's the trade-off if you use the paper and you can put up with the time it's going to take you to peel the paper off then your end result will be probably very nice especially if you're not any good or don't don't feel confident enough to do I'm getting a glare here off the light we're trying to avoid that if you're trying to you know do some free motion quilting you know and you're not confident yet in it this would be a help however I for me I think I would rather do some more practice on free motion quilting and then forget using the paper just go ahead and do the free motion quilting um I think in the long run it would be faster well one you don't to peel off the paper later but also you have the setup you have to put the paper down you have to get your pins out or repositionable sprague I line them all up the whole bit and in my way of thinking just learn to be confident in free motion quilting okay but again as I said maybe for some people this would be better so I'm not slamming this product I think it's a great idea um you just have to be patient with it so that was one thing another thing that I found my husband does stained glass as you may or may not know and I said Tim you know it might be kind of neat if we could find a common pattern that he could put into stained glass and I could put into a quilt and then I got thinking well and again I'm an idiot in all of this um is there such a thing as stained glass quilts the style of stained glass and I had some ideas in my head how this would work but what I do I went to the ever-faithful YouTube stuck in stained glass quilts Aang saw of stuff in different ways people make them look how they make them look like stained glass with letting in the whole bit and then I discovered one lady who has a book about this her name is Ali Ehlers I think and she's got a book called stained glass quilts re-imagined so I ordered it off of Amazon and it tells you the things you can do how to do it and how to get that effect and of course the one on the cover is gorgeous I don't think I'm quite up to that yet I would really botch it but look some of these are very intricate and she has a pattern a pull out pattern for the peacock I believe in the back as well so in a sense it's sort of I think it's like applique in a way especially when you get into things like these flowers and the peacock and that kind of thing but I haven't actually read this book yet I have two on my list of things to go through and do but I thought it would be good to get it while I'm thinking about this idea so down the road I will do a quilt maybe in this style we'll see how that works I'm still experimenting with all these things so that was a new find and then what am i working on right now well you've seen my quilt that I'm working on that's the one not the one behind me that's done that was the epic fail quilt by the way um you might want to check the video where I talked about that that's in my vlogs it's a few weeks back I think um anyways you know what this is binding today I'm working on binding my string quilt that's the one that I use that use the paper foundation for in the whole bit and so this is my last thing to do let's get my binding on I start up sewing this together yesterday so today I'm going to go ahead and start sewing my binding onto my quilt I think I've got it down now how to do the binding we'll see I've done some idiot moves on that as well but anyways of course they didn't have enough of this material this is my backing material in that quilt so I had to go over to the ultimate sewing store and pick up another half metre so I had enough to make my binding so that's the project today so I think that's all I've got to tell you today from the idiot quilter and I'll show you the finished string quilt once they get the binding on it and I'll share some other wonderful things in my adventures in quilting see you later bye bye

Channel: Bland Designs and The Idiot Quilter

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Id: BLBwXuoV26w

Length: 12min 3sec (723 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 26 2018