Looking for suggestions to quilt this
#3
I made a red work quilt and I quilted in the ditch and also used my embroidery machine to quilt on the sashing. It came out beautiful. I also hand quilted another piece and it didn't come out as well. Good luck
#4
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I would do echo quilting around the nutcrackers, and something (not sure what!) in the sashings, borders, and white squares. And I would SID around the edges of the nutcracker blocks. I'm partial to swirls myself for the sashings and borders, but that may not be the your thing. I love your quilt. The redwork nutcrackers are new to me! Very very nice.
#5
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I did one similar with Santas. I outlined the Santas with a pale grey thread on my sewing machine. Then, I hand-stitched a large, running stitch around each of the Santa blocks about 1/4 inch from the edge.
#8
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I 3rd Maniac quilter's suggestion. Cross hatch in white thread and go right over the embroidery but do it on point (so the cross hatch forms a diamond grid) and a 1" grid. I saw a picture of one done this way recently (red work hand embroidery) and it was fabulous and actually took a ribbon at the show. The quilting over the embroidery did not take away from the hand embroidery at all and it gave the redwork a classic, timeless look. For your red sashing I would do feathers or a simple egg and dart design. I would do pumpkin seed flowers in the white cornerstones.
#10
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This quilt gave me good opportunity to play with my drawing program. Do you like this idea?,but not stitching thru the embroideries, or course.
don't know if this attached, if not will try again
don't know if this attached, if not will try again
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