Evening Folks,
Thank you so much for the lovely warm welcome and greetings.
Here's a snapshot of the patchwork quilt. Material used was cotton-poly with polyester batting and tied (Double/Queen size - circa late 1970s). Binding (torn), seams (frayed), batting (not much left). The quilt was well loved and washed in a machine with an agitator. Lots of repairs.
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Big stitched one side of horizontal and vertical seams with 12 wt Aurifil thread and 100% Warm & Natural Cotton batting.
Next step is to machine quilt for extra strength. The existing quilt blocks were not square. Therefore, I had two thoughts: 1) cross-hatch one direction on the royal blue blocks and then the off-white flowered blocks. This would create a triangle on four blocks; or alternatively, 2) a few straight stitch lines horizontally and vertically shadowing the hand stitched lines (not too many because seam lines are a bit wonky).
Concern: cross-hatch design would be sewn on the bias with poly-cotton fabric?
Suggestions welcomed.
Cheers,
P.S. First time machine quilting with my Christmas present! If you hear screaming, you'll know where it's coming from in Canada.
