Allover stippling would have ruined this quilt by flattening the entire design. The wavy lines give the poppy dimension and enhance the appliquéd flower. The quilting on this is very simple. Any beginner could quilt this. Imagine The Poppy Quilt with s tippling or meandering all over it? The right motif can enhance the patchwork or appliqué below, and all over stippling rarely does the trick. Quilting should enhance the piecework or appliqué. Many of them are quite easy to learn with a little doodling. There are over 100 Step by Step tutorials provided FREE here. I am also against stitching allover Stippling or Meandering as a default motif-instead of learning a variety of stitches. Many beginner quilters have been frustrated by this “Beginner Motif”. I wrote about it –Why so Many of us Can’t Stipple or Meander HERE. There are no stopping points and no concrete steps to follow. Stippling is not necessarily an easy motif to learn. Many people (like me) find stippling very difficult. (My sister loves her quilt with all the personal notes added. What I am referring to is a visual preference and is completely subjective!īut as long as we are stitching… why not make our quilts beautiful and add personal touches to them. By that definition, meandering and stippling are perfectly functional and acceptable. The primary function of machine quilting is to combine the three quilt layers into one. To be honest, ruined is a very strong word. I am not the quilt police or an art critic… My only goal is to help YOU on YOUR way. YOU have chosen a motif you like and you are developing your quilt esthetic–and that is my goal as a quilt teacher. YOU are turning quilt tops into quilts and I applaud you! Some like how it looks, others like the soft textured feeling it can give a quilt and a few find it relaxing to stitch. I know many of you like stippling–a handful of people wrote in defense of stippling. Unless you are a bird or a fish, I can’t imagine worms are your favorite design?! Stippling is described as a wormlike design–REALLY? By mid-October, YOU should be a FEARLESS machine quilter–LOL (there’s no such thing as a fearless quilter–we just learn to move beyond.) For the next six weeks we will tackle the factors that lead to our overall FEAR of machine quilting. Feel free to re-blog, share with attribution to The Inbox Jaunt.Last week, I outlined Six Ways to Ruin Your Quilt with Quilting. PS…All tutorials, images and information are the property of Lori Kennedy at The Inbox Jaunt and is intended for personal use only. So if you’re one of the many people who has trouble with Stippling or Meandering…you are NORMAL! Just move on… there are so many choices… Whereas instructions like: Stitch amoebas, don’t cross over, wiggle…are much more difficult to follow. Stitch a half circle…we can all follow these directions….(especially when there’s a photo to go with it!) Instructions like: Start on the bottom line, stitch straight up. Here’s the reason: Our brain works fastest when we tell it what we SHOULD DO, not when we tell it what NOT to do… Whenever one of the little Tykes started running on the wet pavement (very dangerous)-the life guards were instructed to shout “WALK!”… They didn’t shout “DON’T RUN!”… When my daughters were in high school, they were all life guards at our local swimming pool. Stick with me a minute…while I share a story… REALLY? No wonder so many beginners get frustrated and quit Free Motion Quilting!
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