diy stencils

Happy Birthday to Me! 47 Is Gonna Be My Year of Fearless Free-Motion and Ruler Work Quilting from Cheeky Cognoscenti

I am finally having fun with free motion quilting on my long arm machine! Yay! The chalk pounce stenciling is imperfect, as it smudges and disappears while I'm quilting, but all I really need is a vague guide anyway for spacing and the angle of the curls. If I mark just one motif with chalk at a time and then quilt it right away, it serves its purpose -- and I have zero fear that the chalk won't come out of my quilt, since it's all bouncing right off the quilt without settling into the fibers in the ...

added by Rebecca Grace 4 years, 7 months ago. under apqs millennium , batting , diy stencils , free motion quilting , handiquilter , long arm quilting , marking , quilter's groove rulers , quilting with rulers , spirit song quilt

Stencils for Long Arm Quilting, Part Two: Because There is No Such Thing as Being "Ready" from Cheeky Cognoscenti

Transferring my DIY Stencil with Pounce Chalk

After a week of avoidance behavior, I finally started quilting again last night. Ta da!

Hopefully This is the Ugliest Quilting On This Quilt

This is where I started, with that orange polka dot triangle in the top left. It took all of the will power I could muster to leave those stitches in the quilt and keep going!

I ran across this quote by British actor Hugh Laurie this morning, and it's EXACTLY what I needed to hear right now. Well, that quote combined with an amazing AQS video interview of ...

added by Rebecca Grace 4 years, 7 months ago. under bethanne nemesh , diy stencils , free motion quilting , long arm quilting , marking , pounce chalk , quilting with rulers , thread

Using Stencils to Develop Muscle Memory for Long Arm Quilting, Part One from Cheeky Cognoscenti

My DIY Stencils, from Designs in Judi Madsen's book

No quilting to show you yet, but I've been planning and experimenting this week with stencils for my Spirit Song quilt, and I think this is going to work. Woo hoo!

Both of the designs on these DIY stencils shown above were resized and traced from quilting designs that were on the CD that came with Judi Madsen's Quilting Wide Open Spaces book, available on Amazon here.

My Spirit Song Quilt, Waiting Patiently on the Frame

I know that some of you will look at this quilt and ...

added by Rebecca Grace 4 years, 7 months ago. under design , diy stencils , ipad , judi madsen , long arm quilting , machine quilting , pounce chalk , quilting , technology

Hey, Has Anyone Used Stencils for Long Arm Quilting? from Cheeky Cognoscenti

So today is May 1st, and I've not put a single stitch of quilting into my Spirit Song quilt since the rip-stitching I wrote about a few days ago. Finishing the quilting was supposed to be my One Monthly Goal in the studio for April, so clearly that didn't happen -- but I'm not just going to throw a bunch of stitches into a quilt to meet an imaginary deadline.

Sad Spirit Song: No Further Quilting Progress to Report

Since my original quilting plan didn't work for me, I've got to figure out WHAT I want ...

added by Rebecca Grace 4 years, 7 months ago. under diy stencils , eq8 , full line stencils , judi madsen , long arm quilting , marking , pounce chalk , spirit song quilt , stencils

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