Do you ECHO Echo echoooooooo ?

Oh dear, I do have things to do!
If I was to take up bopping those two on the nose anytime they
contemplated being naughty it would certainly be a lifelong
commitment.

I do already have a "blonde bonker" from when DD2 was smaller, well,
living at home. So I might be able to get Leslie in line after a few
years. Polly I fear is a lost cause.

NightMist

On Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:43:56 -0700, "Butterflywings"
wrote:

Or 'for next time you THINK of doing something bad'.

Butterfly (Memory Lane isn't very pleasant today. At lest, PT was 'easy' and
I have an 'easy on the eyes PT'er Will he be my 'Pool Boy" that does
massages??????)

"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote in message
...
I'm sure we would both deserve it... if not for that then *surely* there's
something we've done recently to deserve it??? I'm in the doghouse-
literally!!!- for all the noise from the vacuum and shampoo-er. Not even
Hoover will come near me with his red rubber ball begging to go play in
the backyard.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

"Polly Esther" wrote in message
...
I saw that too, Leslie, and considered telling our NightMist that my arms
are rather short. She just might come bop us on the nose with a rolled-up
newspaper. Polly

"Leslie & The Furbabies in MO." wrote NightMist, dear, is that a
LONGarm or a long ARM? LOL

Leslie- feeling ornery & The Furbabies in MO.- where 'we' just
shampoo'ed the carpet and I have a blister on my hand to prove it! I
ran the machine and The HairyButts ran in circles.....


"NightMist" wrote On a preemie quilt that would be easy!
Just don't try it on a king.
I have long since learned that curves are good, curves are grand,
curves should always move foward and not in circles when the quilt is
massive.
Round and round things on big quilts are easiest by hand. Unless you
have a long arm I s'pose.






--

Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister.

Miss Polly,
That depends!! Let's talk about free motion machine quilting. I use a
darning foot and drop the feed dogs.

To echo quilt an appliqué motif, I like to stitch first line very close
(1/8" if possible) to the motif. Then I go out to the edge of the foot. I
try (the operative word is 'try') to let the edge of the foot skim along the
previous line of stitching for the second and all subsequent lines. Of
course eventually the line is interrupted. Then I just swirl or loop over to
a place where I can continue the echo.

To echo quilt a quilting motif, I would start the first line at the edge of
the foot, and continue as above. That is so the quilting motif will not get
lost in the surrounding quilting.

So, whatca doin'?
PAT in Sunny Virginia

"Polly Esther" wrote in message
...
A machine quilting question. Tell us how you echo. I 've tried (or seen)
echoing just as close as you can manage to get with the SM foot. I've
tried moving out 1/8" or 1/4" in a sort of shadow effect. I've tried
barely following the edge of the vine or appliqué with just a loopy
stipple.
What technique do you use? Why? Easier, looks better, what? Just
wondering. I don't think the preemie babies I stitch for will give a
happy hoot but I always, always would like to do better. Polly

There was a little quilt I wanted to try, a Partridge in a Pear Tree. I
just happened to have some fabric that was just right for the pears; they
look like I worked really hard to get the shading pretty. The pears wanted
to be echo quilted and I was hoping for guidance on how to improve my
echoes. I apologize if that tune goes endlessly around and around in your
head. Polly


"Pat in Virginia" wrote Miss Polly,
That depends!! Let's talk about free motion machine quilting. I use a
darning foot and drop the feed dogs.

To echo quilt an appliqué motif, I like to stitch first line very close
(1/8" if possible) to the motif. Then I go out to the edge of the foot. I
try (the operative word is 'try') to let the edge of the foot skim along
the previous line of stitching for the second and all subsequent lines. Of
course eventually the line is interrupted. Then I just swirl or loop over
to a place where I can continue the echo.

To echo quilt a quilting motif, I would start the first line at the edge
of the foot, and continue as above. That is so the quilting motif will not
get lost in the surrounding quilting.

So, whatca doin'?

I have a Partridge in a Pear Tree waiting quilting

http://www.nmia.com/~mgdesign/qor/fr...masinjuly.html

Its been waiting rather a long time!


Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin



Polly Esther wrote:
There was a little quilt I wanted to try, a Partridge in a Pear Tree. I
just happened to have some fabric that was just right for the pears; they
look like I worked really hard to get the shading pretty. The pears wanted
to be echo quilted and I was hoping for guidance on how to improve my
echoes. I apologize if that tune goes endlessly around and around in your
head. Polly


"Pat in Virginia" wrote Miss Polly,
That depends!! Let's talk about free motion machine quilting. I use a
darning foot and drop the feed dogs.

To echo quilt an appliqué motif, I like to stitch first line very close
(1/8" if possible) to the motif. Then I go out to the edge of the foot. I
try (the operative word is 'try') to let the edge of the foot skim along
the previous line of stitching for the second and all subsequent lines. Of
course eventually the line is interrupted. Then I just swirl or loop over
to a place where I can continue the echo.

To echo quilt a quilting motif, I would start the first line at the edge
of the foot, and continue as above. That is so the quilting motif will not
get lost in the surrounding quilting.

So, whatca doin'?

Awwwww. That is precious. C'mon now, Sally. Let's quilt it. Polly


"Sally Swindells" wroteI have a Partridge in a Pear Tree waiting quilting

http://www.nmia.com/~mgdesign/qor/fr...masinjuly.html

Its been waiting rather a long time!


Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin



Polly Esther wrote:
There was a little quilt I wanted to try, a Partridge in a Pear Tree. I
just happened to have some fabric that was just right for the pears; they
look like I worked really hard to get the shading pretty. The pears
wanted to be echo quilted and I was hoping for guidance on how to improve
my echoes. I apologize if that tune goes endlessly around and around in
your head. Polly


"Pat in Virginia" wrote Miss Polly,
That depends!! Let's talk about free motion machine quilting. I use a
darning foot and drop the feed dogs.

To echo quilt an appliqué motif, I like to stitch first line very close
(1/8" if possible) to the motif. Then I go out to the edge of the foot.
I try (the operative word is 'try') to let the edge of the foot skim
along the previous line of stitching for the second and all subsequent
lines. Of course eventually the line is interrupted. Then I just swirl
or loop over to a place where I can continue the echo.

To echo quilt a quilting motif, I would start the first line at the edge
of the foot, and continue as above. That is so the quilting motif will
not get lost in the surrounding quilting.

So, whatca doin'?

Its sitting in my sewing bag complete with quilting thread and other
pretty threads for embelishment. There's a very creased piccy of it in
my webshots 'Quilting in Progress' (or as it should be called 'Quilting
in the Sewing Bag!)

I have the same block, finished, in my Sampler Quilt in the 'Quilts'
section. That one is quilted. I just enjoyed doing the block and decided
to do it again in Christmassy fabrics - and, oh dear, Christmas is coming!

Its one of the free pattterns on that site.

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin



Polly Esther wrote:
Awwwww. That is precious. C'mon now, Sally. Let's quilt it. Polly


"Sally Swindells" wroteI have a Partridge in a Pear Tree waiting quilting



Its been waiting rather a long time!


Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin



Polly Esther wrote:
There was a little quilt I wanted to try, a Partridge in a Pear Tree. I
just happened to have some fabric that was just right for the pears; they
look like I worked really hard to get the shading pretty. The pears
wanted to be echo quilted and I was hoping for guidance on how to improve
my echoes. I apologize if that tune goes endlessly around and around in
your head. Polly


"Pat in Virginia" wrote Miss Polly,
That depends!! Let's talk about free motion machine quilting. I use a
darning foot and drop the feed dogs.

To echo quilt an appliqué motif, I like to stitch first line very close
(1/8" if possible) to the motif. Then I go out to the edge of the foot.
I try (the operative word is 'try') to let the edge of the foot skim
along the previous line of stitching for the second and all subsequent
lines. Of course eventually the line is interrupted. Then I just swirl
or loop over to a place where I can continue the echo.

To echo quilt a quilting motif, I would start the first line at the edge
of the foot, and continue as above. That is so the quilting motif will
not get lost in the surrounding quilting.

So, whatca doin'?

Hi, I am a long-time lurker and enjoy so much seeing all the beautiful
quilts, I also quilt but have never posted any pics, I think I'm too old to
learn how to do all the picture resizing etc. I looked at the Partridge in
the Pear Tree block and saved it as it so beautiful. I enjoyed this
particular quilting site, but saw you have to join. Do you ladies belong to
this quilting website? I did order something from there, it is the Cats #2
wallhanging. It is so cute, can't wait to get the pattern. Cats #1 is also
nice, but I really like the #2.
I was just wondering about your thoughts about the website if you do belong.
How much dues do you pay etc?
Wanda M.

"Sally Swindells" wrote in message
...
I have a Partridge in a Pear Tree waiting quilting

http://www.nmia.com/~mgdesign/qor/fr...masinjuly.html

Its been waiting rather a long time!


Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin



Polly Esther wrote:
There was a little quilt I wanted to try, a Partridge in a Pear Tree. I
just happened to have some fabric that was just right for the pears; they
look like I worked really hard to get the shading pretty. The pears
wanted to be echo quilted and I was hoping for guidance on how to improve
my echoes. I apologize if that tune goes endlessly around and around in
your head. Polly


"Pat in Virginia" wrote Miss Polly,
That depends!! Let's talk about free motion machine quilting. I use a
darning foot and drop the feed dogs.

To echo quilt an appliqué motif, I like to stitch first line very close
(1/8" if possible) to the motif. Then I go out to the edge of the foot.
I try (the operative word is 'try') to let the edge of the foot skim
along the previous line of stitching for the second and all subsequent
lines. Of course eventually the line is interrupted. Then I just swirl
or loop over to a place where I can continue the echo.

To echo quilt a quilting motif, I would start the first line at the edge
of the foot, and continue as above. That is so the quilting motif will
not get lost in the surrounding quilting.

So, whatca doin'?

I subscribed for one year about 3 years ago - it says it is $15 now. I
downloaded all the patterns I wanted in that time. You only got the
templates - no instructions.

I haven't bought any patterns from the site, so I can't comment on that
side.

Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin



Wanda Moody wrote:
Hi, I am a long-time lurker and enjoy so much seeing all the beautiful
quilts, I also quilt but have never posted any pics, I think I'm too old to
learn how to do all the picture resizing etc. I looked at the Partridge in
the Pear Tree block and saved it as it so beautiful. I enjoyed this
particular quilting site, but saw you have to join. Do you ladies belong to
this quilting website? I did order something from there, it is the Cats #2
wallhanging. It is so cute, can't wait to get the pattern. Cats #1 is also
nice, but I really like the #2.
I was just wondering about your thoughts about the website if you do belong.
How much dues do you pay etc?
Wanda M.

"Sally Swindells" wrote in message
...
I have a Partridge in a Pear Tree waiting quilting

http://www.nmia.com/~mgdesign/qor/fr...masinjuly.html

Its been waiting rather a long time!


Sally at the Seaside~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~uk
http://community.webshots.com/user/sallyswin



Polly Esther wrote:
There was a little quilt I wanted to try, a Partridge in a Pear Tree. I
just happened to have some fabric that was just right for the pears; they
look like I worked really hard to get the shading pretty. The pears
wanted to be echo quilted and I was hoping for guidance on how to improve
my echoes. I apologize if that tune goes endlessly around and around in
your head. Polly


"Pat in Virginia" wrote Miss Polly,
That depends!! Let's talk about free motion machine quilting. I use a
darning foot and drop the feed dogs.

To echo quilt an appliqué motif, I like to stitch first line very close
(1/8" if possible) to the motif. Then I go out to the edge of the foot.
I try (the operative word is 'try') to let the edge of the foot skim
along the previous line of stitching for the second and all subsequent
lines. Of course eventually the line is interrupted. Then I just swirl
or loop over to a place where I can continue the echo.

To echo quilt a quilting motif, I would start the first line at the edge
of the foot, and continue as above. That is so the quilting motif will
not get lost in the surrounding quilting.

So, whatca doin'?

I've been a "member" for several years now - 'bout $15 a year - and just
when I think I have all the patterns I'll ever use, they come up with at
least one new one I can't pass up! G I figure that $15 is much less than
I'd spend on a few patterns elsewhere.
ME-Judy


"Wanda Moody" wrote in message
.. .
Hi, I am a long-time lurker and enjoy so much seeing all the beautiful
quilts, I also quilt but have never posted any pics, I think I'm too old
to learn how to do all the picture resizing etc. I looked at the
Partridge in the Pear Tree block and saved it as it so beautiful. I
enjoyed this particular quilting site, but saw you have to join. Do you
ladies belong to this quilting website? I did order something from there,
it is the Cats #2 wallhanging. It is so cute, can't wait to get the
pattern. Cats #1 is also nice, but I really like the #2.
I was just wondering about your thoughts about the website if you do
belong. How much dues do you pay etc?
Wanda M.

Thanks everyone, and Judy, I think $15.00/yr is less than the magazines,
which I've decided I'm not renewing. I was taking waaay too many, and some
I really never got anything from them, so decided I need to back off for a
while. What I saw on this website looks so nice. And I can't wait until I
get the Cat #2 pattern, which BTW is on the way. Thanks again for the
endorsement and I believe I will give it a try for a year.
Wanda .

"ME-Judy" wrote in message
...
I've been a "member" for several years now - 'bout $15 a year - and just
when I think I have all the patterns I'll ever use, they come up with at
least one new one I can't pass up! G I figure that $15 is much less
than I'd spend on a few patterns elsewhere.
ME-Judy


"Wanda Moody" wrote in message
.. .
Hi, I am a long-time lurker and enjoy so much seeing all the beautiful
quilts, I also quilt but have never posted any pics, I think I'm too old
to learn how to do all the picture resizing etc. I looked at the
Partridge in the Pear Tree block and saved it as it so beautiful. I
enjoyed this particular quilting site, but saw you have to join. Do you
ladies belong to this quilting website? I did order something from
there, it is the Cats #2 wallhanging. It is so cute, can't wait to get
the pattern. Cats #1 is also nice, but I really like the #2.
I was just wondering about your thoughts about the website if you do
belong. How much dues do you pay etc?
Wanda M.