Need some background filler quilting patterns

I've used stippling, pebbles, bubbles, bananas, headbands, vine and
leaves, scrolls, fern and everything else I can find. Does anybody
have a website with just background fillers? I'm about to do grids
out of desperation and really don't want to go there on this quilt...

On a side note, I have managed to buy a new sewing machine that comes
already possessed- just like the old one was possessed. This one
seems to be possessed by good spirits instead of evil ones, tho. I
saw Diane Gaudynski's bananas quilting pattern and could NOT draw it
on paper to save my soul. I tried and tried and just couldn't get
it. I started to mq one secton of my horse-pital quilt with
McTavishing and it ended up being a bananas pattern! I had no idea my
new sm could do that! How nice..... LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote:

I've used stippling, pebbles, bubbles, bananas, headbands, vine and
leaves, scrolls, fern and everything else I can find. Does anybody
have a website with just background fillers? I'm about to do grids
out of desperation and really don't want to go there on this quilt...

On a side note, I have managed to buy a new sewing machine that comes
already possessed- just like the old one was possessed. This one
seems to be possessed by good spirits instead of evil ones, tho. I
saw Diane Gaudynski's bananas quilting pattern and could NOT draw it
on paper to save my soul. I tried and tried and just couldn't get
it. I started to mq one secton of my horse-pital quilt with
McTavishing and it ended up being a bananas pattern! I had no idea my
new sm could do that! How nice..... LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.


Leslie, I don't have the web site you're asking for, but I did want to
say that your experience with pencil/paper, as opposed to thread/needle
isn't all that unusual. G When I took a class from Kathy Sandbach a
few years ago, I had the same problem. I couldn't draw a feather to save
my life. She took pity on me and told me to go ahead and start quilting.
It worked! I just can't draw. LOL!

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
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Sandy-

Thank you! That's good to know.... if that sm has a mind of it's own,
then I don't have to worry about patterns. It'll just do what it
wants to any way. VBG But now I'm back to the same problem. I
wouldn't mind buying a book, but I'm concerned if I spend the money it
might not have what I really want. I have Quilting Makes the Quilt.
I thought it was a fantastic book when I bought it- the quilting awed
me. But now it's kinda ho-hum. That's not the direction I want to go
with my mqing.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.


On Apr 9, 8:29 pm, Sandy wrote:
In article .com,
"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote:

I've used stippling, pebbles, bubbles, bananas, headbands, vine and
leaves, scrolls, fern and everything else I can find. Does anybody
have a website with just background fillers? I'm about to do grids
out of desperation and really don't want to go there on this quilt...

On a side note, I have managed to buy a new sewing machine that comes
already possessed- just like the old one was possessed. This one
seems to be possessed by good spirits instead of evil ones, tho. I
saw Diane Gaudynski's bananas quilting pattern and could NOT draw it
on paper to save my soul. I tried and tried and just couldn't get
it. I started to mq one secton of my horse-pital quilt with
McTavishing and it ended up being a bananas pattern! I had no idea my
new sm could do that! How nice..... LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Leslie, I don't have the web site you're asking for, but I did want to
say that your experience with pencil/paper, as opposed to thread/needle
isn't all that unusual. G When I took a class from Kathy Sandbach a
few years ago, I had the same problem. I couldn't draw a feather to save
my life. She took pity on me and told me to go ahead and start quilting.
It worked! I just can't draw. LOL!

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious)http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

James just bought me Quilting Possibilities Freehand Filler Patterns
by Sue Patten from Amazon. I haven't done more than glanced at it but
looks like it might be something you would enjoy and would fit the bill
Leslie.
Taria

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. wrote:
Sandy-

Thank you! That's good to know.... if that sm has a mind of it's own,
then I don't have to worry about patterns. It'll just do what it
wants to any way. VBG But now I'm back to the same problem. I
wouldn't mind buying a book, but I'm concerned if I spend the money it
might not have what I really want. I have Quilting Makes the Quilt.
I thought it was a fantastic book when I bought it- the quilting awed
me. But now it's kinda ho-hum. That's not the direction I want to go
with my mqing.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

In article .com,
"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote:

Sandy-

Thank you! That's good to know.... if that sm has a mind of it's own,
then I don't have to worry about patterns. It'll just do what it
wants to any way. VBG But now I'm back to the same problem. I
wouldn't mind buying a book, but I'm concerned if I spend the money it
might not have what I really want. I have Quilting Makes the Quilt.
I thought it was a fantastic book when I bought it- the quilting awed
me. But now it's kinda ho-hum. That's not the direction I want to go
with my mqing.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.


Leslie, didn't you say you had one or another of Karen McTavish's books?
She has some flame-like background quilting patterns, as well as some
she calls "cyclone" and some filler feathers.... Those are in _Mastering
the Art of McTavishing_.

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious)
http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

Taria-

I just ordered that book from WalMart. Their shipping is only 95
cents and their book price was one of the lowest I found. Thanks for
the recommendation- that relieved some concerns I had about ordering a
book sight unseen.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

On Apr 9, 8:54 pm, Taria wrote:
James just bought me Quilting Possibilities Freehand Filler Patterns
by Sue Patten from Amazon. I haven't done more than glanced at it but
looks like it might be something you would enjoy and would fit the bill
Leslie.
Taria

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. wrote:



Sandy-

Thank you! That's good to know.... if that sm has a mind of it's own,
then I don't have to worry about patterns. It'll just do what it
wants to any way. VBG But now I'm back to the same problem. I
wouldn't mind buying a book, but I'm concerned if I spend the money it
might not have what I really want. I have Quilting Makes the Quilt.
I thought it was a fantastic book when I bought it- the quilting awed
me. But now it's kinda ho-hum. That's not the direction I want to go
with my mqing.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.- Hide quoted text -

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Yep, Sandy, I have The Art of McTavishing. I did pretty well with the
flames in a practice piece, but I have lost the knack! I just tried
them again on my scraps and I can't do it. Maybe if I wait a few days
my sm will learn them??? LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

On Apr 9, 10:38 pm, Sandy wrote:
In article .com,
"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote:

Sandy-

Thank you! That's good to know.... if that sm has a mind of it's own,
then I don't have to worry about patterns. It'll just do what it
wants to any way. VBG But now I'm back to the same problem. I
wouldn't mind buying a book, but I'm concerned if I spend the money it
might not have what I really want. I have Quilting Makes the Quilt.
I thought it was a fantastic book when I bought it- the quilting awed
me. But now it's kinda ho-hum. That's not the direction I want to go
with my mqing.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Leslie, didn't you say you had one or another of Karen McTavish's books?
She has some flame-like background quilting patterns, as well as some
she calls "cyclone" and some filler feathers.... Those are in _Mastering
the Art of McTavishing_.

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the obvious)http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1

Leave the book out beside it overnight! Give it a chance g
..
In message .com,
Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

Yep, Sandy, I have The Art of McTavishing. I did pretty well with the
flames in a practice piece, but I have lost the knack! I just tried
them again on my scraps and I can't do it. Maybe if I wait a few days
my sm will learn them??? LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
--
Best Regards
pat on the hill

Thanks, Pat, excellent suggestion! My tiny little sewing room is such
a mess I don't know if the sm would even notice the book laying
there... maybe I'll just clear a space right beside the needle. Or
would the other end of the sm be more effective??? LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.


On Apr 10, 12:41 am, Patti wrote:
Leave the book out beside it overnight! Give it a chance g
.
In message .com,
Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

Yep, Sandy, I have The Art of McTavishing. I did pretty well with the
flames in a practice piece, but I have lost the knack! I just tried
them again on my scraps and I can't do it. Maybe if I wait a few days
my sm will learn them??? LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

--
Best Regards
pat on the hill

Had to laugh, I'm really good at bananas too! and can't draw. But can FM
pretty well, some of the time, since it uses the whole arm and not just
wrist and finger movements.
Try doing whatever it is in an unaccustomed direction, like doing flames
sideways. Sometimes it helps.
Roberta in D

"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." schrieb im
Newsbeitrag oups.com...

Yep, Sandy, I have The Art of McTavishing. I did pretty well with the
flames in a practice piece, but I have lost the knack! I just tried
them again on my scraps and I can't do it. Maybe if I wait a few days
my sm will learn them??? LOL

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

On Apr 9, 10:38 pm, Sandy wrote:
In article .com,
"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote:

Sandy-

Thank you! That's good to know.... if that sm has a mind of it's own,
then I don't have to worry about patterns. It'll just do what it
wants to any way. VBG But now I'm back to the same problem. I
wouldn't mind buying a book, but I'm concerned if I spend the money it
might not have what I really want. I have Quilting Makes the Quilt.
I thought it was a fantastic book when I bought it- the quilting awed
me. But now it's kinda ho-hum. That's not the direction I want to go
with my mqing.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Leslie, didn't you say you had one or another of Karen McTavish's books?
She has some flame-like background quilting patterns, as well as some
she calls "cyclone" and some filler feathers.... Those are in _Mastering
the Art of McTavishing_.

--
Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas
sfoster 1 (at) earthlink (dot) net (remove/change the
obvious)http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1