Memories of Provence Quilt Top
 

I have finally attached the borders to my Memories of Provence Quilt. I'm not crazy about the two borders as I LOVED the original floral border fabric. DH doesn't like flowers in decorating our bedroom, so I let him look at all the fabrics and let him choose. This was a block of the month pattern I did through a local quilt shop. I now have to practice my FMQ'ing skills as I'm going to try to do this myself on my Janome MC6600. I'm rather new at FMQ'ing so I'll be doing a lot of practice before I start this. Any ideas or hints for the quilting would be much appreciated!

yes pretty colour combo

Your machine will be just great for this job! Make sure you practice on a quilt sample so the tension is just right. Try to sew slowly so you have good control. I would probably use quilt stencils here and there...free hand is harder. Don't forget your quilting gloves! Good luck and show us yor work please!

Nice nice work. Love your colors:)

This is a beautiful sampler. I have LA so my suggestions will probably be much more than you want to do but I tend to always SITD on samplers to help emphasize all the piecing. Then I usually come up with several FMQ motifs I can repeat throughout the quilt to bring continuity. If this quilt came to me I would probably do some sort of feathers in the white areas, changing them up a bit to fit the spaces and curved crosshatching in the setting triangles. I can't see enough of the borders to make a suggestion on the borders.

nicely done

thsi came out very nice, the colors really pop

I love this quilt, including the borders!

Beautiful quilt. Very dramatic!

What a beautiful quilt! Your fabric are gorgeous, nice work.

Oh that's lovely. and love the last green border too. :thumbup:

WOW It is absolutely beautiful. Great colors and wonderful job sewing it together. 2 - :thumbup:s

Love the pattern and your color choices, beautiful!!!

Gorgeous!! Can't wait to see it quilted! : )

Wow that is beautiful!!!!!

Beautiful quilt!

I like the alternate blocks, great quilt!

what a beautiful quilt. I love the colors. Have fun quilting it.

It is a wonderful quilt. Even with the border your dh stuck you with... lol just picking on him. Your quilt is beautiful.

Kat

Love the intricate blocks. My sister (Blue Cat) who likes applique tells me I'm not happy unless a block has 36 tiny pieces. She's right. LOL

Your quilt is just beautiful.

you did a great job very pretty!!!!!

Awesome job!

Beautiful quilt!!!!

Completed!!!
 

I actually waited to finish this until I bought my longarm machine and took almost year to play around and get comfortable with it. I’m not very good with the FMQing yet, but did a little ruler work in the green borders and a little FMQing in the black inner border while doing a pantograph on the center. The quilt was bigger than my frame so that presented challenges but I did it!

I guess I’ve been away for too long and forgot how to add pictures. Will keep trying to add them.

What a lovely, elegant quilt! You did a wonderful job. I hate doing the quilting, so I don't have any helpful hints for you. I have found that practicing on a sample helps you get comfortable with a quilting pattern, but it doesn't help with being able to handle the weight and bulk of the large quilt. Good luck.

Leslie

Very good all the way around. You have done a fantastic job with the blocks and the finishing triangles for the border. Very creative. Thanks for sharing.

I think I like the small black dot. Your quilting may soften the strong contrast between the block background and the black dot triangles.

I quilt on my 6600 - love that machine! Be sure to take lots of breaks to stretch out your shoulders and rest your arms - I find I get quite tired, and push myself past the point sometimes. Your quilt is just lovely!