This month's featured designer is Patricia Ritter of Urban Elementz. She designs beautiful pantograph patterns which are available in paper and digital formats.
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Texturecan be physical or visual. We can usetexture in our quilts to create dramatic visual impact. It creates depth anddimension. Sometimes it creates a suggestion of movement, drawing the eyeacross the surface of the quilt. Texturecan be as important as color, value, line and shape in creating a design thatis successful. The possibility for creating texture in our quilts is limitedonly by our imaginations. Let’s exploresome of these possibilities together and create a quilt full of texture andfun.
Thisclass will be divided into two parts, for a total of 6 weeks. In Part One, we create our own original fabrics, with paints, tyvek, batting andmore. Then in Part Two, we’ll put it all together and make as smallquilt to showcase the textures andunique fabrics you have made; making our pattern and cutting our pieces, thendoing the appliqué, quilting, and most of the embellishing all in onestep.
Allthe techniques will be available to you as written lessons to download, but youwill also have access to video so you can actually watch as I demonstrate eachtechnique.So, are you ready to take this next step? Come on; let’s “texturize” your quilts!
There are a multitude of great quilting designs available to machine quilters today in both paper pantograph and digital formats.I’ve compiled a resource listing of more than 60 websites that offer various patterns in these formats.My first thought was to post them all here, but I’ve decided to add them to the Resource section to make them available to anyone visiting MQR. Here are the links for your convenience:
Please note that the listings are in alphabetical order and are not an endorsement of any of the designers or their patterns.They are only for your reference.I’m sure that my list isn’t complete; so if you have any additions (or corrections), please let me know.I’ve tried to include links to the designers’ websites as well as links to suppliers who carry paper pantographs and digital designs.If you have any comments, please respond in the forum post that has been created for that purpose.
If you’ve used paper pantographs or any of the digital patterns on your quilts, please consider posting photographs in these forums, too.We love to see the designs quilted out.
frog (frôg, frŏg) verb: to take out stitches from a quilt top. named for the sound a frog makes: rip-it, rip-it, rip-it
It's a fact of life: if you are a machine quilter, you have had to frog some stitches. Maybe lots of stitches. Maybe an entire quilt full of stitches. Having to do some heavy frogging over the weekend, I got to thinking about the Art of Frogging, and thought I'd share some of my tips and tricks for successful frogging. Unfortunately, these pearls of wisdom have been gained over a long and unfortunate career of having to frog an awful lot of stitches.
This class, taught by our own Adam Chenevert, will be starting March 22, 2010. Registration will open Monday, February 22, 2010. and registrations will be processed on a first-come, first-served basis. Further information about HOW to register will be posted here, on the MQResource home page.
In this 5 week, video-based class, you will learn how to create your own wholecloth quilt from scratch without using purchased stencils. The class will start with drawing basic designs, move on to drawing more complicated designs, enlarging the design, marking a 35x35 sample quilt, trapunto techniques and finally quilting.
Adam has put together a 3 minute trailer, with some clips from the videos he is creating for the class.
This month's featured designer is Patricia Ritter of Urban Elementz. She designs beautiful pantograph patterns which are available in paper and digital formats.
drawing the eyeacross the surface of the quilt. Texturecan be as important as color, value, line and shape in creating a design thatis successful. The possibility for creating texture in our quilts is limitedonly by our imaginations. Let’s exploresome of these possibilities together and create a quilt full of texture andfun.
