QUILTsocial | Issue 11

The Sky Blue block sections
Adding the pink and purple threads
Next I scrolled back up to the beginning of the design and
selected the first pink section. I rethreaded the machine with
the pink thread and followed the same process to stitch first the
pink and then the purple sections. I couldn’t believe how cute
my little quilt was looking!!
After all of the blocks were stitched, I started stitching the
cornerstone blocks. I had the THE Dream Machine 2 stitch all of
the aqua sections first and then scrolled back and had it stitch
all of the pink sections last.
By using this simple technique, I was able to decrease the
number of thread changes from 65 to less than 10!
Not all designs will work with this technique – if you have an
embroidery design where colors are layered on top of each
other you must have the machine stitch the bottom-most color
first and then work your way towards the top color or your
design won’t look right.
Now that I see the stitched version of my design, I decided I
don’t want to add the outside blocks that would have been the
cornerstones of an outer border. I love it just the way it is, so
we’re going to layer, quilt and bind my miniature quilt!
Stitching the last of the cornerstones
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