Need help with hand quilting 3D pinwheel
#1
I kept seeing all the wonderful 3d pinwheel quilts on here and just had to try one. I've started on my squares, but am at a loss as to how I could hand quilt it. None of my machines are good at machine quilting...they're too old, not strong enough, the walking foot makes thread knots, etc.. Any ideas on what I could do by hand to show off the pinwheels?
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I'm new to quilting as well and my current machine that has a walking foot hangs up at intersections but I just finished my granddaughtes 3-d pinwheel. I stitched in a ditch around the blocks and down the middle both sideways and top to bottom of the pinwheel blocks; I also quilted around each pinwheel following the design of the pinwheel. Since it was for a child and would see the washing machine alot I wanted to to do more than the stitch in the ditch so that is why I did around the pinwheel. I'm considering putting stencil designs at each block intersection in the sashing and quilting that as well.
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Originally Posted by romanojg
I'm new to quilting as well and my current machine that has a walking foot hangs up at intersections but I just finished my granddaughtes 3-d pinwheel. I stitched in a ditch around the blocks and down the middle both sideways and top to bottom of the pinwheel blocks; I also quilted around each pinwheel following the design of the pinwheel. Since it was for a child and would see the washing machine alot I wanted to to do more than the stitch in the ditch so that is why I did around the pinwheel. I'm considering putting stencil designs at each block intersection in the sashing and quilting that as well.
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Originally Posted by donnaree59
Oh, and for anybody who reads this, this quilt block is ADDICTING! You want to make more and more and more!
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