It has been a very long day. I’m teaching a 7 month long class on EQ8 and this morning was on the Applique portion of the program. There wasn’t enough time, so I promised to make videos on what we couldn’t cover. This afternoon I taught a class on Studio 180’s Star 60 tool and covered 3 technique sheets. When I got home there was a questions on FB about EQ8 and I made a short video to cover that. I’m putting the videos here, because I can!
Bed is calling, I get to repeat the EQ8 class tomorrow morning at 8am and then have another class to teach at 10:15.
I just can’t help myself, I love a challenge. Today’s challenge was to create a Sunburst Pantograph in Intelliquilter. I came up with two ways, but only created a video of one.
If you prefer not to make your own pattern you can download the ones made in this video here and here.
Again with the disclaimer, I haven’t physically stitched out these designs.
There was a question on Friends Using IQ on Facebook, asking whether this design could be made on the Intelliquilter. The short answer is yes, but the long answer on how I did it is in the video.
Don’t want to make it yourself? You can download the one I made here.
Disclaimer – I have not done a physical test stitch out of this design.
I was marking my lone star quilt off the UFO list on the sidebar, and noticed I missed some that were finished last year. At some point a few years ago, I decided we “needed” a quilt for Christmas for our bed. Christmas prints weren’t appealing, and I chose a traditional pattern – Hunter’s Star in solid colors. If you haven’t seen it before, the Rapid Fire Hunter Star tool from Studio 180 simplifies the process. The vast majority of the quilting was done with the pattern Cleo from House of Creations. I don’t remember exactly when I finished this huge quilt, but it was in 2021 — it made it on the bed for Christmas. As a bonus it works for Valentines as well.
As I’ve mentioned before I’ve been playing along with the American Patchwork and Quilting UFO Challenge. The number for this quilt was drawn in February, and 14 years after making the top, and after two weeks of intense quilting it is finished!!! If you want to read about the process on the top you can here, here and here. I may have gone overboard on pictures, but this is more about the quilting. I’m including the pictures of the commercial patterns I used in the quilt, none of them whole. The rest of the patterns I created myself using my IntelliQuilter. There were some lessons learned, and I would approach some of it differently were I to do it again.
I posted a picture of a pattern I designed in IntelliQuilter on Facebook and a few people said they would like to know how to create it. Here is a video showing the process I used. I would be interested to hear/see other ways people achieved similar results.
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We went to Oregon in the second half of April, and I have been slammed with work ever since getting home. I haven’t done much but work the last four weeks! I’m gaining on it and feel like I can breathe again. (I am not complaining.)
Our Colorado Springs IQ user group met on Monday I jotted down several ideas for videos. This one is in honor of Janet, who asked the question. I explained in words, but here it is with pictures!
Most of the time I like to do pantographs in one session start to finish. However, when it gets really late at night and there are still hours to go, or a thunderstorm rolls in, I will shut down my machine mid pantograph. This video shows my process for doing that. From setting up a registration mark before shutdown, to alignment upon restarting the machine for my next session. There is already one video on the IQ Demo site covering this, but my process is a little different. Remember there are multiple ways to do things with the IQ, so it would be worth watching both videos and see what works for you!
Odd note: I avoid like crazy having any part of me in my videos except my hands. I failed in this one, I show up as a reflection in the screen at one point. Ignore the waving of hands as I talk.
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This quilt was the number drawn for the UFO Challenge in March. However, I actually finished it in February so worked on some other lingering projects during March. My best guess is I made the top in 2005 in a block party at Ruth’s Stitchery. Nobody in my immediate family remembers me working on it, so it had to be while they were at work and school and I was at home. I changed out the words on the banner, but other than that followed the directions from Eleanor Burns’ book.
I chose to quilt it with an allover pattern “Sea of Stars” from My Creative Stitches. This is the first time I’ve switched thread colors part way through the quilt when doing an allover quilting job. The top is quilted with blue and the bottom portion with white. I was very careful about lining up the pattern so the division between rows was over the seam between sky and ground. I still had to clip off a little of the pattern where it would have interlocked. While I did most of the quilt with an allover design, I chose to do custom work on the angels.
This video shows how I created a pattern and used it with clipping blocks to give the appearance of ruler work progressing through the quilt using the Intelliquilter. Ruler work isn’t fast no matter how it is accomplished. For me this gives more accurate results than using rulers.
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