{"id":409,"date":"2007-01-19T21:24:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-19T21:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/?p=409"},"modified":"2007-01-19T21:24:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-19T21:24:00","slug":"quilt-lips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silverthimble.ca\/blog\/2007\/01\/quilt-lips\/","title":{"rendered":"Quilt Lips"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t posted in a while. I was waiting to post once I had made some quilting progress. It seems lately that I take one step forward and two steps back and I just can’t seem to make any progress.<\/p>\n

I intended to quilt my gratitude quilt last weekend. I loaded the backing and batting, and top on the long arm and started to quilt last Sunday. I am trying to use up batting that I have on hand and so I had loaded Warm and White batting (from the Warm Company) which you all know has no loft.<\/p>\n

The vision I had for the quilting would have benefited more from a quilt batt with loft. I quilted spirals on three of the blocks and started to meander in the space between the spirals to fill in the space and help define the spirals. I was using green thread that matched perfectly with the green fabric in the border but it did nothing for the red fabric. My vision was falling apart. I decided last Sunday night that this was a bad plan and it needed to be abandoned.<\/p>\n

Last week I was busy in the evenings and I couldn’t get back to that quilt. Last night I frogged all the stitching and cleaned up the threads so that the quilt would be ready for quilting today with a new plan.<\/p>\n

I decided to choose an overall quilting design that was simple. I loaded a gold coloured thread made by Superior called, Highlights #703<\/a>. I have never used this thread before and I wasn’t sure what tension I should be using. After trying to quilt a row and having the thread break twice, which required more frogging, and further tension adjustments, I finally have a result I am happy with.<\/p>\n

This gets me to the title of my post, “Quilt Lips”. The quilting design I chose is called, “LIPS” and utilizes my Circle Lord Wave<\/a> templates.<\/p>\n

Now that I have settled on something I like, the quilting is going along quite quickly. I feel I am finally making progress after going backwards for a week.<\/p>\n

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