Welcome to our FMQ 104 course piece the Puzzle of Custom quilting! The goal is to open up your mind for inspiration and show you how my mind works to get from conception to reality. Follow along with the inspirational powerpoints and demos, as well as the full documentary of videos for the class Demo Project selected.Â
Disclaimer: The class Demo Project is random blocks assembled at random from an out-of-print book called Patchwork City by Elizabeth Hartman. You can get a used or digital copy of the book here. Quantities are sold by amazon and are limited for paperback versions but unlimited for kindle.
Utilize the worksheets below (upload them to your tablet to draw on) print them and practice doodling. they are saved as an image so you can scale and print them to the size you need.
Get out those tools and let’s make some spaces to challenge Quilt!
Lets Follow the Process from Beginning to end! Remember these videos will drop weekly until june 1st.
Why they matter and how I go about selecting threads based on our design concepts for our documentary quilt top.
Are you Ready to begin Mapping the designs we selected for our quilt top? Watch as my brain takes the image on the left and transfers it to the image on the right and see how it transforms into the Final Layout!
Prepping, Loading, and basting the documentary quilt top! because every step matters.. lets get started!
Finally we are stitchign the top half of the quilt top, watch as lauren makes strategic changes to adust the look of he overall top. Sometimes you just don’t know what you’re quilting until you’re actually stitching at the machine.
Stitching the bottom half of the quilt top watch as lauren makes strategic changes to adust the look of he overall top. Sometimes you just don’t know what you’re quilting until you’re actually stitching at the machine we quilt through the white bottom portions of…
Finally we are working with some color. Watch as lauren takes the general idea of the quilt diagram design and works them into more complex design ideas for definition on the top.
It’s time to wrap up and discuss the nuance of the final filler as well as the final additions to the design schematics to avoid my designs falling flat. see images below for final product