Thread Fusion

In May, I was to give the longarm demonstration at Trackside Quilting in Laurel.  I watched Jamie Wallen's dvd, Thread Fusion.  Then I tried to create some thread fusion examples.

I also took this opportunity to use up some of the old jeans denim that I have.  I was testing to see if I could quilt successfully on denim and how many seams intersecting would begin to cause issues for my quilting machine.  Denim with one seam was no problem for the quilting machine.  Additional pieces of denim coming together did make my machine unhappy.

It seemed to me that Thread Fusion was the use of positive and negative space to create a design.  It is pretty cool.  One of the suggestions at the end of the dvd is to use thinner thread so the quilt does not wave so much.  I am planning to play with that later.

This was the very first Thread Fusion example I tried.  There are mistakes but it was a cool start.

I knew I was going to donate my examples to the Community Quilts committee of the Quilt By Association quilt guild.  But just as I was getting ready to do that, they announced a contest for getting more quilts into the Community Quilts coffers for the holiday season.  If the quilt is complete, I will get three entries into a drawing to a quilt store.  Now, I just have to get a binding machine sewed on all of these samples.