Echo Quilting Around Flowers & Leaves
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Echo Quilting Around Flowers & Leaves
If i echo quilt around the flowers and leaves do I use the dark green thread on the beige block so that the quilting doesn't stand out on the back but is very prominent on the front or do I echo in the beige color on the flowers and let the echo quilting stand out on the back. I have done SITD around all of the squares and around the borders of the flowers. I have also done SITD on the two borders. The back is dark green. Here is a picture of the quilt I am talking about
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That's really pretty! Personally, I'd do the echo quilting in the either a cream on the front. You can use a different color on the back if you are comfortable with that. If not, the cream will look fine on the back. If you use a dark color to echo quilt on the front, it would distract you from the pretty floral blocks. JMHO
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Ilike when the quilting shows on the bac k. Made purple one for DGD. Used one ofo the colors and it was a muslin back. So far, not a complaint....To me it just shows more of the love that goes into each quilt.
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That is some gorgeous fabrics!!! I would use a cream to do the echo quilting. If you are going to do this by machine you can try to do a cream on top and a green in the bobbin but I have not had much luck pulling this off. I usually either have little dots of the bobbin thread on the top or the top thread showing on back.
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It really isn't my own pattern. I just used the blocks that was a part of this line and cut them to fit the 9 patch blocks that were 2 1/2" unfinished. I actually have to give credit to another board member who had made a wall hanging from this same line of fabrics. When I saw hers, I just fell in love with it.
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