to fill the outline letter a I'm using cats and meat on paper and I'm just
going to eyeball hmm maybe about there I know some of you might want to have
measurements but really you can adjust your coils to be fitting any area that
you wish so let's get started on some coiling methods here I tend to like to
pre soften my strip and do you see how I was holding it here this area here is
kind of straight so I'm going to also soften that side so all of it gets the
same treatment and the more you coil something the way you soften stripped
it'll get more and more coiled so I'm going to bring the edge of the strip
down to the end of my tool and press into my fingers and I'm not rolling the
tool I'm not touching I'm not moving this hand at all all I'm doing is kind
of rolling this thumb as I roll this coil along
now this is kind of typical for same sided scroll that is standardly shown in
quilling literature I tend to like to have my coils a little bit more open so
I'm going to uncoil them to about I'm going to leave the inner most coils
alone and then re Ravel it up by hand and you see what I'm doing here is
making it almost like those like a conch shell it's more to me it's a more
dynamic shape more Airy so let's see how that's a fitting in the card here
so I'm just sensing a bit of tension here so I'm going to recoil this one a
little bit tighter and that's what I mean about not really needing to know
your measurements if something's a little too long I'll just snip it off if
I need to too short that's okay save the piece and recoil a new one
and put it somewhere else in your piece okay I'm going to grab a light green
this time and again just arbitrarily eyeballing something that feels right
and I know in the beginning when you're starting quilling you're kind of
wondering you don't know what feels right that's okay just keep playing and
you will get the sense of it soon enough also for beginners a lot of you might
have the slotted tool and feel that the needle tools is only for advanced people
but actually I've taught people using toothpicks so really and and they were
just fine so don't let that stigma or that label and stop you from actually
trying a needle tool i prefer the needle tool because it doesn't leave that crimp
in the inside so I'm feeling like there's too much bunching going on here
so I'm just going to trim off some excess and recoil it out make it open an
airy
so I feel like giving this side a bit of a scroll let's see how that's going to
fit I once taught a class where a woman was struggling to use the needle tool
because she had been using the what they called the basic slotted tool for years
and she just wasn't she was seeing that no matter how much she pushed against
her finger the paper was not wrapping it around the tool so I told her licker
flick your finger and she said what oh yeah trust me just lick your finger and
that extra moisture will not only soften the paper but provide some friction and
it will gathered around the tool and so she tried it and she was just amazed to
finally be able to use the needle tool so I feel like making a coil come
outside the letter now
and if you ever feel do you see that slight kink right there it's really easy
to get rid of it you just soften it gently and there you go you have a
smoother arc so I guess I'm just going to cut that off later on but for now
because nothing is glued down I can still move things around if I want to
change the composition or something
you
when I do go to glue these coils down I'm not going to do it with the card
folded I'm going to unfold the card because that little extra pocket of air
is going to not give you a you know like a strong surface to glue on so I suggest
unfolding your card so it's not so bouncy okay now that my strips are ready
let's get started with gluing I'm going to be using aleene's original tacky glue
and run a bead of glue down this piece of plastic card hard piece of card here
to smear the glue I want to smear it quite thin because I want to make sure I
don't get glue blobs along the sides I'm going to set these coils aside for now
and set this one in place first
I'm going to make sure to push down on the innermost coils because I find
sometimes there's just a slight hint of a tornado that goes on in there
I'm going to make sure all the glue contacts those areas
so before I glue something I do tend to test it in its place first and see
exactly where I want to place it do I want this quill to be sitting that
against that side or this side so I'll contemplate it before I actually set it
down and it's funny how I mean though sometimes you think something's gonna
fit you just kind of have to adjust if by the time you glue it it becomes
something different it's okay that's what that's why you quilling is so
forgiving and then because there's no glue on these edges there's to me a
little gap of air in there so sometimes what I'll do is just run a little bit of
glue just along that side and use the tweezers to pinch that together and
it'll make it a much more solid clean looking join subtle but there so this is
the one I want to come out of the letter so I'm just going to use my fingers to
mark that area
and because this seam here will be touching there I'm going to touch that
and into my glue as well
now because I'm videotaping I'm not actually as close to my work as I
physically usually am so I'm sure you'll be taking a bit more care with your work
than I am with mine
now this point because it's been drying here there's likely a skin on that glue
so I'm just gonna run a new bead of glue down because there's nothing worse than
seeing congealed glue on your piece and again I'm going to smear it sometimes a
bit of a race against time before it sets right
you know if you I don't know if you can see this but it's actually not on the
surface of my card so I still have time I can adjust this join to visually align
with that one that I cut it from and then from here I can decide to add some
more coils in there but these are the main strokes that I wanted to put down
first and you can continue adding them I actually prefer to have my card a
little open little airier because then that way they just enjoy the coils for