As I continue working on my gold, silver, and bronze Swoon (it needs a better name), I'm thinking ahead to how I want to quilt this. It's a housewarming gift for some friends who just built their retirement home, so I'm planning to do something more complicated than an all over meander, loops, or swirls on it. However, never having done the complicated and beautiful things that many of you can do for individual blocks, I'm a little concerned about making sure the seams are going to be ok over time.
I'm planning something kind of like this for the petals and star shapes:
http://dreamquiltcreate.blogspot.com...oon-along.html
Around the shapes, I was going to do a musical motif in the negative space in a smaller size than this blog shows but it's the right idea. Friends and I are all musicians, and the quilt will include many music themed fabrics.
http://benandcharlyscorner.blogspot....m-quilted.html
My concern is the seam going around the star/petal shapes because I won't actually be quilting over it at all. I wasn't planning to stitch in the ditch because I don't like to press seams open, so it's definitely causing some thick bumps where certain seams meet and I worry about breaking needles on those places. Will the quilt hold up if I don't quilt over those seams? I'm planning on using a cotton batting that has 8-10" quilting distance.
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