nannyrick

Thanks to all who offered their opinion. I appreciate it.

feline fanatic

Dee's border treatment on her pointless stars quilt would be VERY easy to do on your HSM. Put down masking tape or painters tape to stitch next to for your straight diagonal lines or mark them with a soluble marker. Another option besides SID is to quilt on each key right next to the seam line, like an 1/8 of an inch or less away. Easier then trying to stay right in the ditch and looks just as nice if done consistently. If you piano key is your outer most border you can simply cut off your thread ends on the outside edge, the stitches should be secured by your binding.

amandasgramma

Thank you -- yes, it's done on a longarm but there's no reason you can't do it on your sewing machine. Would be easy to mark the lines before you start sewing and go at it! You might think it's easier to start each line separately instead of going from one line to the other and shifting the quilt. And after reading Feline Fanatic's response -- made me think. You could do a straight stitch or a decorative stitch in the middle of each key (from the quilt out to the edge). hmmmmm I might try that one of these days!

Ruby the Quilter

Your quilting is beautiful. How do you tie the threads off with all the starts and stops for this beautiful quilting. I have decided I need to move from meandering to a pattern type of quilting. Not sure how to get started.

Latrinka

I think SID would look best, would just take longer to do.

amandasgramma

I'll try to answer this with two different ways of doing it:

1) Don't tie off..... start in the area OFF the border and stitch in toward the inner border (or toward the quilt) then stitch down to the next line (stitching in the ditch to get there) and then stitch back out toward the edge off the quilt. You could actually do this in one motion without tying off. I've never done it on a DSM -- so I don't know how hard that is.

2) Rather than trying to explain how to get the bobbin thread up in the middle of a quilt, I found this tutorial....http://doodlequilts.blogspot.com/201...rt-2-free.html

carolynjo

I, too, have started in the middle of the border and quilted a "V" and followed the lines to the ends of each border. The corners look nice when you do this also.

momjoy6

This is a good idea too. It looks really good amandasgramma

irishrose

I did descending figure eights horizontally down the border in a bright multicolored thread. [ATTACH=CONFIG]336582[/ATTACH]

AliKat

For me, how I would quilt the border would also depend on what the rest of the quilt is like. I would want the border quilting to compliment the central area quilting.

ali