Quilting Baptist Fan

[Slokarma]

I'm love the Baptist Fan too and am always on the lookout for a stencil. I made my own stencil too from that circle ruler and I taped off about 1/3 of it. ( I ran across this idea on a blog) I did burn it onto stencil paper, but i sure could use some practice. I just bought a roll of "preview" paper. That should be here this week. I haven't been too successful with anything else.

Anyways, I have tried my hand several times and I can only see me doing it FMQ, unless the fan is really huge. But for my taste, there is too much stopping and turning for me to use a walking foot.

I have searched and will keep searching for advice and tips and what ever I can find about the Baptist fan. appreciate everybody else's advice!

For marking I used a regular mechanical pencil…one of my fav tools. I also use a piece of colored chalk or tailors chalk, which is a bit narrower than regular chalk. Most of those quilt pencils don't stay sharpened enough and I'm constantly breaking the lead and having to resharpen. I did try using that spray powder and a stencil. It worked like a charm BUT i put the can away and it leaked out something causing the rest of it to be no good. I really liked this stuff, but it's pricey if you can only use it one time. and now I'm learning to use the pounce pad….which i can't get to work like Eleanor Burns on TV…go figure.