![]() ![]() I got this idea from Leah Day when she was showing how she does stippling following rows across her quilt. (The red line in the drawing.) This way I can ensure that I will be able to work my way around the whole quilt top without getting stuck in a dead end anywhere and I have a path to follow that doesn't look like I just followed a straight line. Then I stitch my meandering back and forth across that line to fill the spaces as evenly as I can while doing an irregular meander. (Refer to the blue line in the following drawing.) First I mark a very large snake-like, u-shaped line on the surface of the quilt with a water soluble marker. ![]() "What if I draw a Very large, Very simple stipple line first (like in Leah Day's very first stippling lesson), then follow that to stitch my stippling along instead of stitching in a row!" So I was sitting with my doodle pad and an idea came to me. The second week a light bulb came on for me! Leah recommends stippling in "rows", but I thought that looked a little too row-like for my taste. For the past few weeks I've been following Leah Day's Wednesday quilting blog posts where she breaks down stippling into smaller components to get started. ![]() I decided I was going to learn stippling no matter how much practice it took. I would start out OK and then be "stuck" in no time, then I'd panic a bit, and it was over! So. I've been FMQing for awhile now and feel pretty good at feathers and other designs, but stippling has baffled me from the start! Apparently I am so "Left-Brained" that I just couldn't meander. I figured out a technique for stippling/meandering that is working better for me, and I thought others who are struggling with this may be interested. ![]()
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