Six Ways to Ruin a Quilt with Quilting

Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt wants you to get over your fear of ruining your quilt with machine quilting. She highlights six ways to ruin a quilt and follows up with ways to avoid that ruination. I think we all want to avoid the...

NUMBER ONE WAY TO RUIN A QUILT

1. Allowing the quilt top to languish (neatly folded) in a Sterlite box in the basement…out of fear of “ruining” it.

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#10 GrandmaJackie 2020-08-10 18:34

Wow, just came across this. Would like to know more but it keeps taking me to a different page and then another and another, never finding what this claims to say is available to members. Sad

#9 Brendaintheboro 2017-01-01 11:43

stippling gives us confidence to try other designs. none of us can just jump into superb feathers without learning the control that comes through much simpler designs.

#8 JanP 2017-01-01 11:22

I have found that heavy quilting makes a quilt stiff whereas the meandering makes a quilt soft and cuddly. Anyway, I have not found the right batting to make the heavy quilting soft and cuddly.

#7 Janet 2017-01-01 10:35

This one deserves to be #1, not because stippling ruins anything, but because it inspired me to experiment with other options. Somehow Lori made it all seem possible. Owls are waaaaayyyy cuter! Thanks, Lori!

#6 Charlene 2016-12-22 09:27

I enjoy stippling. I don't feel my quilts are "ruined" by it. Perhaps you may think a quilt would look better if I used another design but it is both expensive in the use of thread and time if you are working on a large quilt and a home machine. Many of us don't have long arm machine at home.

#5 Jan 2016-09-10 09:44

Quilt is ruined if you don't complete your project, out of fear of ruining the quilt.

#4 Andrea Edgar 2016-09-04 02:24

I completely agree with Lori. When I completed my first ever quilt (after making a few sample blocks to practice FMQ), had stippling been the only option for FMQ, I surely would have given up. Stippling is a great technique for filling in space around a motif or feathers for example because it makes the central motif "pop", but as an "all-over" design it can take attention away from the beautiful piecing we spect hours designing and constructing rather than enhancing our work. Thank you Lori for encouraging us to take some risks and motivating us to try new techniques while also inspiring us by sharing pictures and tutorials of the beautiful FMQ designs you use.

#3 Roxy J 2016-09-01 22:32

Quilting is an art form. What appeals to one person will not to the next. Sending quilts out is expensive ( not that the quilter is over charging- just too much for me) so I need to do as much myself as I can, so I can continue to do different projects. I don't think she should have used "ruin" and stippling in the same sentence.

#2 Carol Ann 2016-08-26 13:35

I stipple too, but I did not read that she said it ruined the quilts. She said if you love to stipple than OK....She was pointing out that we need to expand our quilting knowledge, and try something different...whi ch is what I took from the article.

#1 miss M 2016-08-25 12:26

I do all over stippling, I'm new, can't do the other stuff, but I don't feel I'm ruining my quilts. The big ones, I send out. Not fare of you to say that..

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