Artistic by Janome
Janome has introduced a new longarm line/suite of products, the Artistic Creative Suite. One of the items is a longarm (well, a couple actually). You can read more about them here. Since Janome has been kind enough to include me in the artist/teacher program lo these many years, I in return make projects or write brief articles they can use on their website, blog or wherever they need. In late spring I lent them several free-motion quilting samples for possible use in print media, and I decided one of this year’s projects I would make and just GIVE to them in return for their years of support: a 17″ x 42″ banner with the Artistic logo (albeit made on my/their Janome 7700)!
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Here’s the banner while being quilted. You can see that I used blue washaway pen to mark the logo and segment the background for quilting into different filler patterns.
The logo is red, so initially I thought I would paint inside the lines to re-create the flower and lettering. This was a test of various paints on the white cloth:
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Testing the red color and paint for shade and for bleeding using acrilyc ink, inktense pencils, and textile paint. Ick. Some were too orange. The ones that weren’t looked like fresh blood spots. Ick. So I opted to outline with red thread only!
Here’s a close up view:
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A close up of the quilting in-progress. I modified the convertible free-motion foot. It is a closed metal circle, which is perfect for some uses. But I wanted an OPEN circle (not a U shape, which is another of the convertible options, not a large clear plastic disc which is the third alternative). So I bought a second presser foot set, took out my trusty dremel and removed a small portion of the circle to improve visibility!
Here is the finished banner–I’ll do another post with close up pictures of the free-motion quilting!
September 4th, 2012 at 9:45 am
Ooooh! This is lovely! That A is such a lovely shape, I love a good font! The red stitching rather than paint was a most excellent choice! They are gonna love it!
September 5th, 2012 at 1:50 am
Ooooh! You do have such a lot of fun, don’t you?