Have recently finished this quilt top/ wall hanging, and have no idea how to quilt this. Any suggestions? The redwork is hand done.
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Have recently finished this quilt top/ wall hanging, and have no idea how to quilt this. Any suggestions? The redwork is hand done.
Just wanted to say, really pretty quilt. There are a lot of really good quilters here who can give really good ideas about how to quilt it. I'll be watching and learning.
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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
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.
Lori
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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.
psumom
I would cross hatch the background like they use to quilt redwork quilts in the 30s.
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This was my first thought also.Originally Posted by ManiacQuilter2
I agree with ManicQuilter2... that's the first thing that came to mind. Cross hatch in the white squares. Then, if you want something curvy in the red. BTW=beautiful work!
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.
I like the redwork, but I would NOT quilt across it. I judged a quilt show once for a small community and they had all quilted across the redwork and it ruined it for me. I would quilt around it in echo quilting.
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