A bit of stippling practice

November 11th, 2009

In preparation of my latest stippling adventure there was much practicing around here, and tea drinking on my part, but come to find out a certain little girl loves to sneak sips of my green tea when I’m “unaware.”

A few of you have asked me these past weeks about what the heck stippling is! Well, in short it is free motion quilting in a meandering style, like doodling on a piece of paper. Free motion means the sewing machine is not pulling the fabric through, you have to guide it. Imagine a pen and paper, normally we write with a pen on a stationary piece of paper, well with free motion quilting you move the “paper,” and the needle is the pen. Make sense? True stippling means that lines CANNOT cross or touch. Here is a little you tube video if you are more of a visual person! I need to get some of those gloves! Evidently there is a better solution than using my yellow dish gloves! Ha!

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One Response to “A bit of stippling practice”

Comment by Cristin
November 11, 2009 1:23pm

I did a bit of stippling practice the other night and decided to make it into a baby stroller quilt :-) I’ll post it soon….
But I usually have a few crappy pieces of ugly fabric/batting sandwiched for when I need a quick practice, or to make sure the stitching is good. Practice makes Perfect! :-)

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