Help - how would you quilt this?
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Help - how would you quilt this?
I've been trying to figure out a quilting pattern for this since May! Now the quilt show is barely three weeks away, and I really need to get it done, but I'm still completely undecided.
I think I want the quilting to emphasize the piecing (my piecing skills are much better than my quilting, so I want the quilting to take the back seat). My original plan was to ditch around every stripe, but I now think I would go crazy doing it. For reference, the stripes are 1" wide, so the stars are about 11.5" across point-to-point.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated - thank you!
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I think I want the quilting to emphasize the piecing (my piecing skills are much better than my quilting, so I want the quilting to take the back seat). My original plan was to ditch around every stripe, but I now think I would go crazy doing it. For reference, the stripes are 1" wide, so the stars are about 11.5" across point-to-point.
Any and all suggestions would be greatly appreciated - thank you!
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Gorgeous top! I think I might use my walking foot and do a diamond crosshatch SITD following the diamond shapes in the stars. You could always come back later and put more quilting in after the show
Last edited by Tartan; 10-04-2017 at 07:55 PM.
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wonderful quilt. How about doing spiraling outward stars--start in center with smaller ones, then increase size as you go out. I'd line them up, but so that they spiraled out (does that make any sense??). I think it would highlight the star blocks and also the movement of the quilt. It's just awesome. Whatever you do, please post when finished!!
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wonderful quilt. How about doing spiraling outward stars--start in center with smaller ones, then increase size as you go out. I'd line them up, but so that they spiraled out (does that make any sense??). I think it would highlight the star blocks and also the movement of the quilt. It's just awesome. Whatever you do, please post when finished!!
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I would stitch in the ditch only around the star that is whole (the one that is just below and to the right of the center of your quilt in the picture). Then I would simply echo around that one star until the entire quilt is quilted. That would be very easy to accomplish in the time you have available and could either be done FMQ or with your walking foot. You would end up with concentric echos around that one star and as you got further out, your echoed line would run off the edge of the quilt, so you wouldn’t have to worry about the binding interfering with a pattern. Also it would have the effect of being an all over texture that would reinforce the shape of the main star and also the spiraling out effect of the pieced pattern without overwhelming the rest of your lovely piecing.
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