Originally Posted by feline fanatic
The flower fabric lends itself to outline quilting the flower and that wonderful veining in each petal. I would then draw the flower and resize it to fit into your setting triangles and the pieced squares. I would try to mimic the leaves of the flower or come up with leaf and vine motif for the stip pieced areas and then I would SID the star blocks, the HST blocks and the pinwheel block. The piano key border could have a continuous feather or again repeat that lilly in your focus fab.
Lots of good ideas Feline Fanatic!
I think this top deserves some special quilting treatment too ... I would:
- outline and vein (or thread painting) in the flower blocks, also a wonderful spot for beading accents
- curved cross-hatching in the grid section;
- HST and square-in-square blocks (maybe the grid section too), continuous curves
- in the purple/pink diagonal areas, swirls or spirals
- in the triangle sections, feathers (like the attached, from Digi-tech
http://stores.digitechpatterns.com/Categories.bok - Betty Feathers)
- log cabins - mimic the iris as Feline Fanatic suggested above
- plain blue border - Charisma-style wavy lines
- piano key border - feathers!
Beautiful quilt! You're having fun with this - hurray!
DigiTech Betty Feather
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