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Lucinda's Quilting Adventure

My journey of becoming a Longarm Quilter

The Challenge, Lessons Learned, and Results

9/5/2017

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Hello everyone,

I have been having lots of fun quilting edge to edge quilts for myself, charity, and the public.  I decided it was time to have a bit of a challenge for myself and to extend my skills and learning in the space of "Custom Quilting".  Last summer I created a very Modern quilt top at a retreat that I attended.   I decided to take on the following challenge for this quilt top be be quilted:
1. Design my own digital blocks for the quilt
2. Quilt the blocks 

Now this might not seem like a large challenge to you, but the blocks are 17 inches and my longarm throat space is 17.5.  I've also never designed a block from start to finish and had it quilt out in such a large space.  My theory was to make the blocks pleasing to they eye and not to have over complicated blocks.  Below is a picture of the quilt top and the blocks that I designed:
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Circle Play
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Big Circle
Lessons Learned:
Stitch in Ditch (SID) 
1. SID on curved lines is really not very easy to do on a long arm by hand.
2. SID using your multi-placement border feature in Quilt Path (software) can help remedy this.
3. SID using more points on multi-feature AND Pins makes for near perfect SID results.
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SID by Hand
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SID no pins
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Near Perfect SID
Placement of blocks:
1. My Big Circle blocks vary in size due to the fact that I stretched the pattern for each block.  Perhaps I needed needed to use the same size in each block and not use the "stretch" feature in block placement.

Thread:
1. I used a silver thread as I thought it would pop in the gray area and blend in the checkerboard blocks.  This choice of thread spotlights that the "Big Circle" blocks are different sizes.  Next time I would consider using two threads, using a darker thread on the gray to blend.

Here is the finished project.  There are a few spots where I wished things looked a little cleaner, but overall not a bad result. :)
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3 Comments
Rita Loyd
9/6/2017 08:14:07 am

Looks to me like you are stretching yourself as a Quilter! The subtleties of quilting are not noticed by others, so no need to point out your mistakes. Looks great!

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Dianne Ferguson
9/6/2017 10:02:20 am

This is beautiful. You are inspiring me to finish mine!

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Barbara Macleod
9/7/2017 08:30:28 pm

Looks great, sis!!!

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    Lucinda Cox is a High Tech professional that is starting a longarm quilting business.

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