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Old 04-10-2014, 02:38 AM
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charlottequilts
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Originally Posted by Lori S View Post
Its a beautiful quilt! As for the quilting... I would not do either I would do a wide echo stitch that runs down the middle of the light strips and then on the batik area would quilt a square on point going contrary to the square of the batiks creating a diamond , I would do this about half way to the center of that batik square.
If I really wanted to keep the darkest sashing from shifting at all I would stitch right down the center of the dark. Sometimes I find the narrowest sashings will shift a bit and not appear to be the straight line they are before quilting. Since its the contrast is so great and draws you eye to that portion... I would stitch that dark sashing.
This is very interesting to me, as I am making a quilt with 1/2" sashing (sounds weird, I know, but the fabrics are very dainty). How wide is the brown sashing in the picture? If I went down the middle of the 1/2", wouldn't it disappear?

What is an echo stitch?

Thanks,
Charlotte
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