You can stitch even the most simplistic version of stippling – yes! even those basic rows of U shapes can go on a REAL QUILT! Now you might be thinking that only the most complex version of Stippling is acceptable to stitch over a real quilt. If you finish your practice piece and feel so frustrated and angry you’re ready to throw your machine out the window, please stop quilting and go have fun doing something else! This is not a torture session here! If you finish your practice piece and still feel excited and enthusiastic about your progress, make another sandwich and keep quilting! Without it, I tend to wiggle off into oblivion! I like it because it gives me a visual line on a blank piece of fabric to shoot for. You don’t have to mark the lines unless you want to. I marked lines about 3 inches apart so I could work my rows of simple stippling straight across the quilt: You might have noticed marked lines on my quilt sandwich. I made a 1/2 yard quilt sandwich with black fabric and stitched across the narrow side several times with each version of Stippling. Really you can practice this however you like, but here’s what I did this week: When you’re ready, you can start mixing and matching these simple shapes to create a more complex version. ![]() Let’s call this one Lobster Claw Stippling and again, make sure to stitch the reverse version as well:ĭo you see where I’m going with this? Each row of shapes is slightly more complex, but at the same time they’re very simple because it’s just the same wiggles repeated over and over again. Only when you’re bored to tears again, play with bending the curve to create a bit more complexity: Whatever you have to do in order to get the practice you need! Feel free to print this page and trace it if you have to. Let’s call this Peace Sign Stippling, and make sure to try the reverse version as well:Īgain, draw and quilt this new wiggly line. When you’re so bored out of your mind with wiggles you’d like to kill me, move on to a slightly more complex wiggle: Wiggle and Wiggle and Wiggle until you start to go a bit wiggly, and then wiggle some more! Spend some time drawing and quilting this wiggly line. So if we break down those rules into the simplest format, you will get a Super Simplified Version of Stippling that looks something like this: To learn Stippling, I broke the design down into a simpler version and got the hang of that first, then slowly added more bends and curves until it became the complex design it is today. ![]() ![]() I certainly didn’t start stippling this complex version right off the bat, and I don’t advise you to try it that way. But it took a few weeks of practice to get here. This is the more complex form of Stippling which forms a dense, wiggly mass over your quilt. This is a pretty simple set of rules, yet Stippling can be challenging when you try to immediately stitch something like this: Now let’s go into a bit more depth about what you saw in the video:įirst off, Stippling is governed by two very simple rules:Ģ. I just keep having to remind myself to slow down! I couldn’t really tell if I was getting a good angle or not, but I’m pretty pleased with this so far. Please keep in mind that I’m still learning how to shoot larger scale fillers.
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