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03-29-2014, 05:36 AM

jme

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Need some help

Ladies, how would you quilt this? I need some suggestions. The dark blue is supposed to be the water. I thought about putting waves there but other than that I am stuck. I don't want to SITD this time.

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03-29-2014, 05:42 AM

quiltsRfun

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Waves for the water and a meander around the sailboats for the sky to make it look like clouds. Love your quilt. There's a sailboat quilt in my To Do list.

03-29-2014, 06:10 AM

GrannieAnnie

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Originally Posted by quiltsRfun

Waves for the water and a meander around the sailboats for the sky to make it look like clouds. Love your quilt. There's a sailboat quilt in my To Do list.

Agreed. Plus SITD around the boats themselves

03-29-2014, 06:12 AM

nativetexan

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yep, both suggestions above. Looks great!!

03-29-2014, 06:14 AM

Tartan

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Cute top! I think the sail boat with the black sails needs a little Jolly Rogers pirate flag.

For quilting, waves in the water and SITD around the boats and sails first. I would then put a few lines in the blue sky as if the wind is blowing.

03-29-2014, 06:27 AM

QuiltnNan

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Agreed. Plus SITD around the boats themselves

these were my first thoughts, as well... cut quilt

03-29-2014, 06:30 AM

scrapinmema

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I like all of the above suggestions as this will really set the theme in place

03-29-2014, 07:11 AM

athomenow

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This is so cute. I want to do one of those for a baby quilt sometime. List is getting longer and longer!
I agree with everyone else about the quilting.

03-29-2014, 07:19 AM

TeresaA

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Tartan

Cute top! I think the sail boat with the black sails needs a little Jolly Rogers pirate flag.

For quilting, waves in the water and SITD around the boats and sails first. I would then put a few lines in the blue sky as if the wind is blowing.

Yes! Or just quilt a little glow in the dark skull and crossbones into one of the sails!

Very nice quilt and good suggestions.