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Free Motion Quilting
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Free Motion Quilting
I am making my first landscape quilt and am not sure what to do first. The background of the quilt is all water and I am fusing embellishments such as birds, grasses, dragonflys, etc. and am not sure wheather to free motion quilt the water first before fusing the embellishments on and then quilting around them. Any suggestions? Niteowl
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Re: Free Motion Quilting
I usually fuse first on my landscape quilts that why I get a tight seal, also by doing that I can catch any little edges that don't want to behave, most of my landscape quilts I do with invisible thread that way I can mimic the pattern and the quilting becomes like a perfect necklace and earings to compliment that outfit not overwhelm it kinda says hello i'm quilted
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Re: Free Motion Quilting
Niteowl, embellishments go on AFTER! I have chipped buttons and I could Swear I never got near them! You also take a chance of breaking a needle and screwing up your tension, etc.
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Re: Free Motion Quilting
are your embellishments hard or soft I assumed when you said you were fusing it was something like cut out of fabric of the birds, dragonflys and grasses, are the fabric or other if they are other than fabric tiggersmom is sooooooooooooooo right.