Originally Posted by Kat Lorien
Hello Ladies, I am a newbie hoping for advice. I have been assembling a paper peiced hexagon lap quilt. It is a "scrappy" quilt, using fabric gifted by freinds and leftovers from other projects. It is about 1 metre square. I have taken all the papers out, leaving just the outer row all the way round. I have some batting and backing cotton fabric and I know I have to make a sandwich and baste it. I would like to hand quilt the peice, but as the hexagons are only 5 cm wide, I can't see myself having the patience to quilt each one individually. Can anyone recommend a quilting pattern that I can use?
Sadly there is usually no such thing as a quick pattern for hand quilting, or at least I haven't discovered one. Usually the easiest are simple straight lines or a grid pattern. One of the best pieces of information ever given to me when I first began quilting was this, a friend and mentor told me that quilting (esp. hand quilting) usually takes the same amount of time as creating the quilt top. That was a real eye opener for me because I thought once the top was done I would be mainly finished and the rest would just whip up (quilt up) in short order. Ha ha hahahahahah. I have since learned how wrong I was. If you don't want to spend a lot of time hand quilting, you could machine quilt it. You can quilt it in the ditch, which will hide the machine quilting and allow others to focus on the amazing quilt you've created. It is quite stunning and you've done an amazing job for someone who says they are a newbie!
Piece ~ Tiffany
PS. If you don't like the way it quilts up, just send it to me and I'll take good care of it for you! :lol: