As I mentioned, I have had longarming on my mind lately. One of the things I have been trying to work out is how to use different colors and different machine quilting designs in one quilt. I don’t want my quilt to look like I didn’t think about the quilting design and just Pantographed over the whole thing. Quilting Arts has a pattern for a tree skirt and it occurred to me that this might be the PERFECT project for the longarm. I could sew several pieces of coordinating fabrics together, longarm it and then cut out the tree skirt. They suggest stamping and painting and embellishing, which is a good idea. Another project to think about!
one way of having a quilt that doesn’t look like a pantograph over the whole thing might be to piece large pieces of yardage together, change the thread and quilting pattern on each peice of yardage and then cut the yardage for a quit — that is make a quilt as you go using prequilted fabric…. Might not work, but might…
This would be a good way to practice, definitely.