The ruler in each photo helps you judge each one’s scale. You can see my sampler’s different sizes above and below. Then I kept it near the quilt and looked at it frequently as I worked, ensuring that my quilting was matching its scale. I would fold the sampler so the client’s chosen size was the only one visible. The sampler also helped me to be more consistent from the beginning of the quilt to the end. That left no room for personal interpretation or misunderstandings. To help my customers visualize how different meandering sizes could look on their fabric, I created a sampler that included jumbo meandering all the way down to tiny stippling. Of course, be careful not to draw on your quilt, and move the vinyl away from your quilt before removing the markings. Lay the vinyl over your quilt, and then use a dry erase or transparency marker to draw your meandering on the vinyl to test its scale compared to your quilt. Grab a piece clear vinyl and tape off the edges with painter’s tape so you can see where the vinyl ends. If that image still isn’t helping, then it’s time to use a visual reference. It stops along feather edges, sneaks in and out of block designs, and dodges around applique shapes. By contrast, stippling pays attention to where it’s going. The stitching line wanders aimlessly all over the quilt’s surface without stopping for anything in its way-it marches right through borders, blocks, sashings, and even applique. Think of meandering on a quilt as an edge-to-edge type of design. Largeīut we can get us all closer to the same page by defining the pattern according to how it is used. There is no international reference that magically defines when a wandering quilting line is too big to be called stippling or too small to be called meandering.
If “stippling” means a really, really small meandering design, then what size does it have to be before it becomes “meandering” and not stippling? Great question! The answer is, it’s a matter of personal opinion. Using contrasting thread for your stippling adds another design layer for your quilt, fitting the word’s definition by creating “an even or softly graded shadow.” Notice how the gold thread used for stippling this border makes it look like the fabric is actually printed with the design? PHOTO 2 3.
It can make feathers and block designs pop out and come to life-especially if the batting has enough loft to fill up the feathers while the stippling compresses it all around them. Sometimes it can be so tiny that you can barely see the pathway at all! Stitching that small is called “micro stippling.” Stippling is typically used to fill in background fabrics, to add texture, or to highlight applique designs. Stippling can be executed using a meandering pathway, but stippling is small. If we follow those Merriam-Webster Dictionary definitions to describe quilting, size is the differentiator. But more than one quilter has been disappointed after picking up a quilt from the longarm quilter, only to discover that their definitions did not match! Is this stippling or meandering? Quilters frequently use stipple and meander interchangeably when describing a quilting design that wanders aimlessly across the fabric. –To engrave or draw by means of dots or small touches to make small short touches that together produce an even or softly graded shadow.
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“Quilting the Quilt” by Dawn Cavanaugh appears regularly in every issue of Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting in partnership with American Professional Quilting Systems.
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