Free Motion Quilting ideas
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Free Motion Quilting ideas
I am in the process of quilting a BOM quilt. Of course, each block is different, and I want to quilt each block differently. Is there anyplace online that shows ideas for whole block quilting? I know about Leah Day's filler patterns, but I'm looking for ideas for the whole blocks. I tend to concentrate on only the small individual areas (triangles, stars, etc.) instead of the whole block, and I'd like to get away from that.
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I am doing the same type of thing with some hawaiian quilting blocks. I will probably quilt each block, with an echo quilting and then put them together with sashing in between the blocks and quilt the sashing. I will be doing mine by hand, but that may be an idea for your blocks. Also, they suggest outline quilting around the applique that I am doing.
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Go to Green Fairy's blog http://greenfairyquilts.blogspot.com/ and look through her archives or gallery. She has done many many sampler quilts with different designs in each block.
Pick a theme and run with it. Like feathers? They can be modified to fit many, many different shapes like the points in a star, a background rectangle or triangle, a feather wreath in the center square of a churn dash, etc.
Here is a sampler I did with a different design done in each block: http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...c-t185132.html
You are only limited by your imagination and comfort zone and the comfort zone is meant to be broken out of.
Pick a theme and run with it. Like feathers? They can be modified to fit many, many different shapes like the points in a star, a background rectangle or triangle, a feather wreath in the center square of a churn dash, etc.
Here is a sampler I did with a different design done in each block: http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...c-t185132.html
You are only limited by your imagination and comfort zone and the comfort zone is meant to be broken out of.
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