tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65500724738930550192024-02-19T14:52:42.433-08:00TopAnchor QuiltingAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16387091898732410611noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550072473893055019.post-26829191161364173072014-10-17T10:25:00.004-07:002014-10-17T10:34:23.817-07:00Tables for Templates!<div style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 8px;">
Thinking about getting a longarm quilting machine? Congratulations!</div>
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Do you wonder what the longarm table extension is used for and why you might need it?</div>
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If you use a regular sewing machine for machine quilting it already has a bed to support the item you are working on.</div>
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With a longarm quilting machine there is only a small area where all the action takes place. The needle only goes up and down (never sideways), and since the design is created by moving the machine instead of the quilt, there are no feed dogs. </div>
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You can see in the photo below that the needle plate on a longarm has only that one small round hole for the needle to pass through and no feed dogs. (By the way, this is my Innova 22" longarm, which I dearly love!)</div>
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This is all the work area you have to pay attention to when doing freehand work like meandering scrolls, loops, pantographs or using a computer program to guide the machine.</div>
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This small sample quilt shows just how much area is supported when stitching. (These photos are just to demonstration the amount of support in the area around the hopping foot - a full quilt would be mounted in the frame and not sag that much on the sides.) </div>
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When you use rulers and templates, there is not enough flat area to support them properly and you can run into all sorts of problems. This is where the extended base table becomes an essential part of your machine.</div>
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Pop on your extended base table and look at all that support area now for your work! </div>
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And there you are! All ready to stitch-in-the-ditch, sew piano keys, crosshatch areas, and do all sorts of other designs with rulers and templates.</div>
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Have fun!</div>
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The template shown in the photos above is our new rotating Dahlia template. Videos of the <a href="http://www.topanchorquilting.com/" title="http://www.TopAnchorQuilting.com">Dahlia and all our other templates</a> and pricing information for them can be found on our website <a href="http://www.topanchorquilting.com/" title="www.TopAnchorQuilting.com">www.TopAnchorQuilting.com</a>. </div>
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Happy Stitching!</div>
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Betty</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16387091898732410611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550072473893055019.post-45004635971722981452014-08-04T15:01:00.002-07:002014-08-04T15:01:46.702-07:00Ancient UFOs - the Quilty Kind<h3>
What's your oldest UFO?</h3>
(That's quilting shorthand for <strong>U</strong>n<strong>F</strong>inished <strong>O</strong>bject or quilt.)<br />
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Without counting, my guess is that I have around thirty or so ranging
in age from just started this week to ones I started in the 1960s.<br />
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My grandmother ordered the iron-on pattern
for the state flower blocks when Alaska and Hawaii were still
territories so that tells you how old it is. I've been working on
embroidering it and have 27 done, barely more than half of the blocks.
These blocks were with me through my teen years, through marriage and
three kids (now grown), and have moved with me from one side of the
country to the other and back again. I wonder if I will ever see them
finished and sewn into a top.</div>
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Everything has been kept in a 1950's tin.</div>
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It had contained a delicious fruit cake that was a gift from my father's boss in the coal mines.</div>
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With all the moves, it's no wonder that poor tin has gotten a bit battered!</div>
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The embroidery thread has seldom been
exposed to light and is still as bright and strong as when I bought it.
Check out the thread photo; some of it only cost five cents a skein.</div>
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The pattern is crumbling with age and
needs to be scanned and preserved as a pdf or at least photocopied. It's
amazing that it's still readable. The red ink is stamping ink and a few
years ago I tested it to see if it would still stamp. It did. Amazing!</div>
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These are just a few of the blocks I embroidered. I have to wonder if I'll ever get another one done or even the whole quilt. Guess it gives me something to plan to do - sometime.</div>
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From time to time we read about a family
inheriting such treasures and not knowing what to do with them. Way too
often they end up on craigslist or eBay. I'm determined that this won't
happen to any of my UFOs or even my fabrics, tools and sewing machines.
Everything is in my will so that I know someone will get them who will
take care of them and not dump them at a yard sale. I am also making a
list of everything to tell my family what to do with it all.</div>
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So what is your most ancient UFO? Share your comment below and on our <a href="http://www.facebook.com/TopAnchorQuiltingTools" title="http://www.facebook.com/TopAnchorQuiltingTools">Facebook page</a> where you can include pictures. We want to see them!</div>
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Happy quilting!</div>
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Betty</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16387091898732410611noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550072473893055019.post-25164154039266513172014-07-28T17:25:00.003-07:002014-07-29T10:03:54.870-07:00Finding Free Quilting Patterns<div id="article-content">
So many beautiful blocks and free quilt patterns are
available today it's often hard to choose which one to use in our next
quilt. One that I especially love is the <b>Lady of the Lake</b>
quilt block. It's a very old and popular quilt block and can easily be
found among the many free quilting patterns on the internet. I think my
next quilt will be one in red and pale pink and I'll call it the <b>Red Lady</b>.<br />
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Note that in the <b>Lady of the Lake</b> quilt block all of the dark pieces</div>
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point in one direction and the light pieces point the opposite direction.</div>
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There are many variations and those all have (or should have) different names.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><i>"History
has it that the Lady of the Lake Quilt Block was named after a poem by
Sir Walter Scott, published in 1810. The pioneer men and women loved the
heroic tales of Sir Walter Scott, and the women honored him in their
most practiced method of artistic expression by naming a patchwork block
after the poem. The Lady of the Lake quilt block appeared shortly after
publication of the poem, one showing up in Vermont some time before
1820." <a href="http://www.thequiltingcoach.com/public/512.cfm">QuiltingCoach Penny</a></i></span></h4>
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For
the last 100 years or so I’ve been quilting. Well, maybe not quite a
hundred, but let’s just say my grandmothers taught me to cut the
patterns out of cardboard, trace them onto the fabric with a pencil,
then cut the pieces out with scissors. Yes, we had many of the standard
sewing implements like needles, thimbles and sewing machines, but
marvels like rotary cutters and cutting mats were years away from being
invented. <br />
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Folks often passed around to each other their own
versions of free quilt patterns with handmade cardboard templates.
Sometimes they just looked at a quilt, sketched out the design and made
their own patterns. It was a rewarding and creative effort to make a
quilt for which there were no printed patterns or directions. Today most
sewing and quilt shops (including those on the internet) have a large
selection of patterns, kits and instruction books for blocks and quilted
items. Such convenience!<br />
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With another great invention, the
internet, finding both new and old quilting patterns has gotten easier
than ever. If the name of the block is known, a search often turns up
tons of places to find the pattern. I often take a shortcut and check
out Marcia Hohn's <a href="http://quilterscache.com/" title="http://quilterscache.com/">Quilter's Cache</a>
website first because the block I want is probably already there.
Another great feature of their website (and there are many!) is the <a href="http://quilterscache.com/MISSINGQUILTS.html" title="http://quilterscache.com/MISSINGQUILTS.html">Missing Quilts</a> page. <br />
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Use
your favorite search engine to find “Lady of the Lake quilt” and
hundreds of links will pop up. Of course, you can use any block name in
place of Lady of the Lake. Check out the links until you find the block
or quilt design you want. <br />
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Here are just a few of the hundreds of websites I found when looking for the <b>Lady of the Lake</b> quilt pattern. Check them out!<br />
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<a href="http://www.quilterscache.com/L/LadyoftheLakeBlock.html" title="http://www.quilterscache.com/L/LadyoftheLakeBlock.html "><i></i></a><br />
<b>Quilter's Cache</b>: <a href="http://www.quilterscache.com/L/LadyoftheLakeBlock.html" title="http://www.quilterscache.com/L/LadyoftheLakeBlock.html ">http://www.quilterscache.com/L/LadyoftheLakeBlock.html </a><br />
<b>McCall's Quilting</b>: <a href="http://www.mccallsquilting.com/qb/pattern_502/index.html" title="http://www.mccallsquilting.com/qb/pattern_502/index.html ">http://www.mccallsquilting.com/qb/pattern_502/index.html </a><br />
<b>Facebook</b> group from Lake City, Florida: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/LadyOfTheLakeQuiltGuild" title="https://www.facebook.com/LadyOfTheLakeQuiltGuild">https://www.facebook.com/LadyOfTheLakeQuiltGuild</a><br />
<b>Pinterest</b>: <a href="http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=lady%20of%20the%20lake%20quilt" title="http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=lady%20of%20the%20lake%20quilt">http://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=lady%20of%20the%20lake%20quilt</a> <br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i>If
you chose to visit any of the websites listed here, please pay
attention to their copyrights and other permissions before sharing their
patterns and instructions with others. By linking to their pages
instead of sharing only the pattern or instructions, we are attributing
their work to them and that’s important because creators need to be
recognized for their efforts. (Before anyone asks, the Lady of the Lake
quilt pattern has been around for a very long time and no one can
copyright the pattern itself. However, if a person writes or draws the
pattern or quilt, those writings and artwork are copyrighted and may not
be reproduced without permission.)</i></span><br />
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So keep on looking until you find that free quilting pattern you want - it's out there! <br />
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Happy quilting!<br />
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Betty<br />
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Disclaimer:
Neither TopAnchor Quilting nor Betty Bland is associated with any of
the internet sites mentioned above other than for researching and
information for personal use.<br />
[Mirror from <a href="http://topanchorquilting.com/blogs/bb-s-blog/14959725-finding-free-quilting-patterns">http://topanchorquilting.com/blogs/bb-s-blog/14959725-finding-free-quilting-patterns</a>]<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16387091898732410611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550072473893055019.post-49678451628487011922014-05-26T08:49:00.002-07:002014-05-26T09:05:43.717-07:00Hero VeteransMost families had relatives who served in the military to protect this great land and help preserve our freedoms. Today I want to write about two of them, my father and one of my brothers.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b>Ruth & Arthur Fridley on wedding day 1938 </b></td></tr>
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Dad served during World War II in Europe as an Army medic. When asked about his time there he would only say, "I peeled a lot of potatoes."<br />
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After I grew up, I realized that he must have seen and experienced many horrors while in France, Italy and Germany. He paced the floors during thunder and lightning storms and often made us go into rooms in the center of the house for our safety. He was also very much a pacifist who disliked seeing people fight for any reason, especially us kids who seemed to tease and fight each other all the time. <br />
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After the war, he worked in the coal mines to keep his huge family (10 kids) clothed and fed. He passed away in 1976 at the too young age of 54 from the complications of black lung, emphysema and bone cancer from being exposed to coal dust in the mines. <br />
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My oldest brother, Lewis, followed in Dad's footsteps and served two tours of duty in Vietnam during the heaviest of the fighting. He was in the Army's artillery division and lost his hearing because of the constant noise. <br />
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Lewis posed for sculptor Barry Snyder for this statue of a helicopter gunner. It is part of the Vietnam Memorial in Fairmont, West Virginia.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Yesterday I decided to tackle my Singer 66 Redeye treadle sewing machine and get her sewing. This particular machine has a lot of cosmetic damage, poor baby, so if the cleanup doesn't work, I have another head to drop into the cabinet. <br /><br />Maybe that's why I've hesitated to name her - don't want to get attached in case she doesn't work out.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">When I got her last year she was super grimy, so I coated the head in sewing machine oil inside and out to gently soak and loosen the grime. An old tea towel went into the bottom of the cabinet to catch drips, the head was lowered and the cabinet closed up. Since then, it has just been used as a stand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">A thorough cleaning can take weeks and includes disassembling everything, soaking all the parts in Liquid Wrench or kerosene, then cleaning each part separately before reassembling. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">I wanted to make sure I could use her to sew before investing a lot of time, so I rubbed off much of the loosened surface grime with a baby toothbrush and soft cloth so I could test her out without getting my thread and cloth dirty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">These original finish on these cabinets wasn't super smooth and glossy like a Baby Grand piano, and this one won't look that way when it's cleaned up. <br /><br />The scratches and watermarks are minimal and will be easy to make disappear. (That will be the subject of another post.)<br /><br />Mostly, she just needs a good cleaning.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She needed a new tension assembly and I just happened to have one in my parts stash. <br /><br />Loosen that one little screw on the right, pull out the old tension assembly and slip in the new one, then re-tighten the screw and that's done! So easy!</span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">The shiney black spots are paint on the metal, with all the decals and protective coating worn away. The dull surface is where the protective coating is disintegrating. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">If I were to soak this head in kerosene, all that crackled finish would come </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">off and most of the decals underneath would also be destroyed even more than they are now. I will probably just clean her again with baby toothbrush and soft cloth, and follow up with a coat of auto polish to protect what's left.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">She's like me - lot's of wear and tear and showing her age, but still gets the job done. LOL! </span></div>
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It's been one month and one week since the EZ Arc quilting template was first offered to the public. Seems like a year! </div>
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The artwork for our new feather wreath template arrived from the manufacturer today for approval. What do you think? The pink will be a much lighter pink when screened onto the acrylic and will help make the guidelines more visible.<br />
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Complete instructions will come with the template, but basically you stitch around one teardrop section, rotate the template and stitch the next section. After completing that part of the wreath, tie off the thread and start in the other section and repeat all the way around again. Piece of cake!<br />
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I am the furthest from a precision longarmer as you can find, and this new tool makes even my work look good! Here are some samples:<br />
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What a surprise and what a pain where you sit when you are in the middle of binding a quilt and discover that you missed some of the quilting stitches. What to do now? <br />
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I had several options: stitch by hand (wouldn't match), sew on domestic sewing machine (stitching too different), or remount in the quilting frame. The last was my best option because the longarm was still had the same top and bobbin thread, as well as the same stitching length.<br />
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The 18" bar magnets were my lifesaver. These magnets are very strong and held the quilt in place on both bars long enough for me to finishing the quilting. This is a baby quilt, but the magnets also work with all other sized quilts. </div>
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The powder on the hopping foot is chalk from the stencil pouncer</td></tr>
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One end of the quilt was wrapped under the belly bar and behind/over the top bar, and was held in place with one magnet.</div>
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The front end of the quilt was simply laid over the front bar and held in place with another magnet. The magnets can be moved as needed and hold long enough for me to finish the quilting.</div>
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These magnets are great for holding the top in place to float it. They're meant to be screwed to a wall to hold metal tools. I heard about them from another quilter, and it just so happened that Harbor Freight had them on sale super cheap. I'm sure they are also available in other places. I have five magnets now, but plan on ordering more because they are so darned handy. <br />
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Be careful with the magnets and keep them away from your electronics. Mine stay on the bars and are usually only lifted off the bars when I move them. The bars are so strong it's almost impossible to lift one straight up off the bars, so I give it a 1/4 turn to make a cross and that breaks most of the magnetic hold. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Way back in the last century, I
learned the Baptist Fan pattern when I first did hand quilting with experienced
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">To draw the first fan, a string was pinned to the bottom right corner and a pencil on the other end of the string was moved in a wide arc to mark different sized arcs. The pin/pencil/string was then moved to the bottom of the outside line and the arcs of another fan were drawn. With fans drawn completely across the quilt, several of us could quilt at the same time. </span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GY32NQeHNqA3GpeTAw-_tnwZbUxp9rUuNMBdwcl6QrbzYK0u7D7dP2pBfHY2wYvO7xK1ftkwogTqasToQREDiF3ND87AF0KyGks5N9_1f8F3E7G1EBNZ3QsKWSYy2QY-AOB8AHvHuTc/s1600/Bottom+up+-+Copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"><img border="0" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-GY32NQeHNqA3GpeTAw-_tnwZbUxp9rUuNMBdwcl6QrbzYK0u7D7dP2pBfHY2wYvO7xK1ftkwogTqasToQREDiF3ND87AF0KyGks5N9_1f8F3E7G1EBNZ3QsKWSYy2QY-AOB8AHvHuTc/s640/Bottom+up+-+Copy.jpg" width="640" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We sat in front of the frame with one hand under the quilt and
the other hand on top with the needle and thread. We buried our knot at the one end of a line, stitched the arc, and tied the knot at the other end, then cut the thread and started again on the next line, continuing until a fan was completed. We stitched one row, and then rolled the quilt and stitched another row above the first. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Sewing from upper right and down to
the left is the natural sweep of the arm for right-handed folks (the opposite is true for lefties), so that pattern was very easy for me to do right to left, and that is still the most comfortable movement for me today.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">We worked from the bottom of the
quilt up to the top, which is the normal way of stitching most of the quilts
rolled on these handmade frames.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">With a
longarm, my favorite way to quilt is to work from the top down, and that is
completely different from what I was used to doing for the Baptist Fan. No problem!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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stitch in any direction. In fact, you could start at the top right and work to the left if you want. Use the method that has the most natural movement for you.</span></div>
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quilt all the way down to the bottom, rolling the quilt on the back or
upper bar as I go. I start stitching the Baptist Fan pattern at the bottom and work my way
back up the quilt the way we always did when hand quilting in a frame, removing the basting stitches before quilting the fans.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; mso-spacerun: yes;">That's what works best for me even with the EZ Arc quilting tool, and you will find what works best for you as you continue to use the tool. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">With this new tool, we are no longer limited by the swing of the arm the way we were when hand quilting, so just try different positions and movements until you find your favorite, then stitch away. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The answer to the question, 'Top Down or Bottom Up?' is 'Any Direction!' </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Whatever works, I say. No problem!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">PS - remember to watch for Feather Wreath Contest details </span></span><span style="font-size: 10pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">on January 15!</span></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16387091898732410611noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550072473893055019.post-9575148383934941472013-01-04T00:00:00.000-08:002014-09-21T10:10:28.597-07:00How Many Ways Can You Quilt A Baptist Fan?Baptist Fans are one of the most popular and traditional ways to quilt, both by hand and machine. It's the first pattern I learned to quilt way back in my younger years while sitting at a handmade quilting frame with female relatives. <br />
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Most of us were right handed and sewing from the upper right to the lower left is a natural movement of the arm and quilting hand. These arcs are easy to stitch, and when sewing concentric circles, they naturally become the Baptist Fan pattern. It's fast, it's easy, and when close stitching was needed to secure the batting, it was the ideal pattern to stitch. We always worked from the right across to the left, and bottom to top. After each row, we rolled the quilt forward and started at the right with a new row. <br />
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Batting available today can often be safely quilted up to 10" apart, but 'way back when' folks used carded wool or cotton, or even cotton batting (often still containing the cotton seeds), close stitching was necessary to keep it from separating and migrating to other areas inside the quilt. Very old well-used quilts will often still have little balls or bunches of batting in between the close stitching, but I like to think those are just indications of the age of such a treasure. <br />
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Below is a link to Bonnie Hunter's post on hand quilting Baptist Fans with lots of great information. <a href="http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2010/05/questions-on-fans.html">http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2010/05/questions-on-fans.html</a> Bonnie's method uses a hoop, quilting the fan all around the outside of the top and then filling in the center with fans. <br />
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I have always thought that machine quilting this pattern would be a bit more difficult so I've never tried it. Some folks mark the entire quilt and freehand over the lines as with any pattern, or use different machine quilting techniques and have beautiful results. My hat is off to them.<br />
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Longarmers are blessed in that we have many tools available to help quilt Baptist Fans. Folks lucky enough to have a computer guided system can just tell their computer and longarm machine what to stitch. Some devices work from behind the machine, such as an apparatus to make circles, grooved boards used with a stylus to guide the machine, and pantographs that can be followed with a laser. Many rulers and templates are available that can help in the spacing and formation of the Baptist Fan arcs, and these have the advantage that they are used at the front of the machine. <br />
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The newest device on the market that can help make beautiful Baptist Fans is our own Baptist Fan quilting template pictured above. The anchor post fastens to the top of the quilt in the work area, and the notched template fits over and rotates back and forth with the hopping foot to create arcs for designs. At the end of each row, 'walk' over previous stitching up to the next row.<br />
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No matter what technique or tool you use, our rotating Baptist Fan template can help make your quilt a wonderful work of art.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Today's post is about my current favorite sewing machine 'Martha' and why I prefer that 60 yr old very heavy metal beauty over any other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">Many 'old' metal machines still exist today as any collector will tell you (and happily show you their herd). It just so happens that my Martha is a Singer 201-2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">It's very sad that so many of these wonderful old machines are only being used for tables and stands, or worse yet, thrown away.</span> <br />
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My much loved and often used Singer 201-2, 'born' in the late 1940's, is a workhorse of a sewing machine. (Please don't tell her she's considered to be an antique - she thinks she's still a young chick!) To me, she's worth her weight in gold. She has a horizontal bobbin that just drops into the built-in bobbin case, and sews forward and reverse. That's it, nothing fancy. ;D<br />
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But that doesn't mean that this machine only does a straight stitch - oh no, it does much, much more. <br />
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Singer and other companies made sure that the home seamstresses had all the help they needed to make their machines do everything they wanted: darning, embroidery, hems, join seams, lace edging, tucks, bindings, zigzags, ruffles, gathers, decorative cords and braids, buttonholes, zippers, even quilting. Yes, these babies were - and still are - very versatile. The good news is that the attachments needed to do all this are still available.<br />
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These machines were meant to last a lifetime, and many have lasted several lifetimes. How many generations might have used a machine made in the late 1800's? <br />
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'Martha' sews a perfect seam and has enough power to sew through practically anything you can get under the presser foot. I've sewn as many as eight layers of denim before she bogged down and groaned. Try that with one of the new plastic machines! Can't do it! But she also has a light touch when needed to sew those delicate fabrics. She can sew practically anything and do a great job at it.<br />
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Like most other old metal sewing machines, this one is very basic and easy to maintain. Give her a good cleaning (mostly just removing lint with a small paint brush), add a few drops of oil and she is ready to start humming away again. In the 15 plus years I've been using this Singer 201-2, she has never had to go to the shop for anything. I've had to replace the light bulb once ($6.95) and the bobbin winder tire ($.30) once, both of which were very easy to do. That's it! <br />
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Check with your Mom or Grandma to see if they still have and might be willing to part with their old machines. You just might strike gold! But please don't thrown them away! If you are desperate to get rid of one, there are tons of collectors that will take them off your hands!<br />
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a happy gal at play. Wondering what kinds of designs I could make in the
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play design that has great possibilities. I think it looks like a sunflower or
chrysanthemum. However, a sunflower would have alternating petals, not stacked
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Notice the area in center top - this is where I attempted to make birds but that will take some work to make it look the way I want it. Maybe someone else can figure it out and show me how! The same type of technique could easily be used for bows as well. Gotta work on that!</div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16387091898732410611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550072473893055019.post-81169525869779266232012-12-27T07:46:00.000-08:002014-09-21T10:03:05.309-07:00Background Fill Around Applique<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">This is the very first attempt <strong>Judy Ross</strong> made using the new EZ Arc longarm quilting tool. Don't you just love the way she was able to put Baptist Fans in the background around her applique. </span><span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Awesome!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">How creative and great work, too!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Great job, Judy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">My personal thanks to you for showing us a new way of using the EZ Arc longarm quilting tool!</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.topanchorquilting.com/">http://www.TopAnchorQuilting.com</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16387091898732410611noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550072473893055019.post-55759350818860486752012-12-26T17:37:00.000-08:002014-09-24T06:47:57.747-07:00Baptist Fan longarm quilting tool <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">After nearly two years developing the Baptist Fan longarm quilting tool, it was finally announced to the public and made available on December 10, 2012. The response has been tremendous and better than we hoped! </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">YEAH!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">What makes this tool unique is the patent-pending TopAnchor system that allows the template to rotate around a stationary anchor post; t</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">he template and hopping foot are both moved together at the same time to create the stitching pattern. This is very different from using other longarm templates, which remain stationary while you stitch around them.</span><br />
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All work is done directly in the stitching area with no need to walk behind the machine or reach under the quilt, and no other parts or accessories are needed to make it work. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">The Baptist Fan template is the</span> first of several longarm tools using the unique TopAnchor system. Watch for announcements in early January 2013!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">The question asked most often is whether these tools can be used with regular sewing machines and the answer is sorry, but no. Since the template and hopping foot both move over a stationary quilt, it can only work with a longarm machine. However, there are other tools on the market for use in machine quilting, and youTube demos of them. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Update: after extensive testing, we have determined that the Star & Dahlia templates will work for free motion quilting as long as you have a round foot like the hopping foot on a longarm quilting machine. Check out the information on our website here: <a href="http://topanchorquilting.com/collections/templates">http://topanchorquilting.com/collections/templates</a><br />
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We now have a webstore set up at <a href="http://topanchorquiltingtools.com/">http://TopAnchorQuiltingTools.com</a> and a new Yahoo! users <span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">group </span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><a href="http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TopAnchorQuiltingTools">http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TopAnchorQuiltingTools</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"> is open to everyone whether they have the tool or are just interested in seeing how it works. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">On facebook: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span itemprop="name"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TopAnchorLongarmQuiltingTools?ref=ts&fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/TopAnchorLongarmQuiltingTools?ref=ts&fref=ts</a>. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span itemprop="name">You can even see the Baptist Fan template used to create a quick and easy continuous Baptist Fan on youTube: </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><span itemprop="name"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwgNaIbJqm4&noredirect=1">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwgNaIbJqm4&noredirect=1</a>.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS';">Stay tuned! There is much more to come!</span><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16387091898732410611noreply@blogger.com1United States37.160316546736773 -79.101562511.638282046736773 -120.4101565 62.68235104673677 -37.7929685