The Old Folks Home

[superchemicalgirl]

Some are drawn out - the sun skeleton is drawn (some of the fillers are free motion within it), the spine of the "fern" and the lines radiating out from the center of the spider web (the around lines are free motioned on). The outside border has a few "dots" at 2.5 inches to try to keep me even (it didn't work). I'm washing it now to get the marks off it, but the majority is free handed.

 

[microchick]

Absolutely gorgeous SGC. I finally got a start on my panel project. My biggest roadblock at the moment seems to be my difficulty in locating an alteration pencil that will show up on black material.

Are you hand quilting or are you machine quilting? BTW I love both the feather and the cobweb. Simply beautiful. And no, I don't think it looks like a centipede.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Absolutely gorgeous SGC. I finally got a start on my panel project. My biggest roadblock at the moment seems to be my difficulty in locating an alteration pencil that will show up on black material.

Are you hand quilting or are you machine quilting? BTW I love both the feather and the cobweb. Simply beautiful. And no, I don't think it looks like a centipede.

I picked up a chalk pencil (mechanical) a few years back that marks a thin line on dark fabric. It works pretty good and more importantly, comes out easily. It has 3 colors - white, pink and can't remember, but that's what I use to mark out darks.

This is machine quilting on my Juki.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Here's some lovely winter shots for y'all





100 lbs of rock salt later and... it's still awful

 

[microchick]

I picked up a chalk pencil (mechanical) a few years back that marks a thin line on dark fabric. It works pretty good and more importantly, comes out easily. It has 3 colors - white, pink and can't remember, but that's what I use to mark out darks.

This is machine quilting on my Juki.

My machine isn't nearly that talented, lol. Friends of our back in IL owned a sewing machine/sewing business and showed us their newest machine with a built in scanner. It would custom embroider, quilt, you name it. It did everything short of washing the dinner dishes for you. She demonstrated it for me, told me all the applications it could be used for. Since I'm mainly a crafter and quilter of course I was drooling over it until she told me the price. Just too practical to quantify spending several thousand. I don't remember if it was a Brother or a Juki but I was still craning my neck around to look at it as I carried my old reliable newly tuned up sewing machine out the door.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

The juki is actually my 3rd sewing machine. I started on a very beginner Singer, and quickly realized it wasn't powerful enough to keep up. BF bought me a nicer Singer about a year later, and I loved that thing and did so much on it, but the throat space was just too tiny (less than 4 inches). I'd get neck and arm pain from trying to shove the quilt in there and move it around. This May I decided I was tired of back and neck pain and looked for a machine with a larger throat space. I went with Juki - it's a huge throat space. No more neck/back pain and I can see much better and it quilts better. While it was expensive, sewing is my therapy and I'd rather it not hurt my back.

 

[pennyJo1960]

see I have many drooling over my old White's trying to get me to "trade" them in
the both go forward that is all but throat space or needle height there is not comparing
of what they can do.. funny I was trying to run a slick vinyl and the feed dogs could not grab it
to feed Ma said put newspaper or paper bags over it works like a charm

 

[Alaskan]

@superchemicalgirl

Super bummer about the chick.

 

[perchie.girl]

The juki is actually my 3rd sewing machine. I started on a very beginner Singer, and quickly realized it wasn't powerful enough to keep up. BF bought me a nicer Singer about a year later, and I loved that thing and did so much on it, but the throat space was just too tiny (less than 4 inches). I'd get neck and arm pain from trying to shove the quilt in there and move it around. This May I decided I was tired of back and neck pain and looked for a machine with a larger throat space. I went with Juki - it's a huge throat space. No more neck/back pain and I can see much better and it quilts better. While it was expensive, sewing is my therapy and I'd rather it not hurt my back.

Oh my goodness.......

 

[superchemicalgirl]

I have two singer treadles, as well (and a Husquvarna serger) and they have a lot of throat space and are powerful but I'm not that good with the manual start/stop. I found an old fashioned quilt top pattern that I like that I want to make on it to get better at it.

I have access to a long arm (my sewing teacher has one) and honestly I prefer the sit down "domestic" machine to the stand up long arm. I feel I have a lot more control with the regular machine plus I can just flip the quilt and continue and not have to stop/start and move the top on the rails. The long arm also hurts my back because I have a tendency to hunch over it.