MarionsQuilts

I love making quilt blocks with border strip fabric ... but now I am at a loss how to quilt this!

Any ideas? I'm pretty confident in lots of methods, so feel free (except hand quilting LOL)

Thanks all,

Ladywingnut

Beautiful Quilt! Figuring out how to quilt it is always a challenge for me. I think the 1st thing I would do is stitch in every single ditch to stabilize the quilt. Then I would do some simple ruler work in the black areas. You don't want to quilt in the purple areas because the quilting would simply be lost. Because the focal fabric is straight lines, I would chose a more curvy ruler pattern to compliment the design

MarionsQuilts

Thank you ... would you do it in black or variegated purple / blue thread?

Jordan

I have no quilting design ideas-I just wanted to tell you how beautiful your quilt is. Love your flower fabric. Good luck on your decision and I know someone on this board will get you great ideas.

Ladywingnut

It would depend on how good of a quilter that you are. Do you want your stitches to show, to be a major part of the design? Or do you want it all to blend in? When I am trying to figure out a quilting design, I have to draw it out with pencil and paper, then I like to do practice sandwiches to work out the rhythm of the design. BTW, I have discovered that these practice sandwiches make great little cleaning rags, soft cotton, batting, certainly better than having my practice pieces pile up in the corner of my sewing room or simply to go into the trash.

Jingle

I only do FMQ.

I just want to tell you how beautiful everything about it is,

MarionsQuilts

I'm pretty good LOL ... I've had tons of practice ...

thanks all, will work on the design over the weekend!

Hope everyone is well, stay safe

aashley333

I would SID to start, then use rulers within each block. I like the spiral effect of the "half moon" looking ruler (I don't know its name). Here's an example:

Tartan

Pretty top! I think you could quilt something different in each block to highlight each design. I would quilt in dark thread in the sashing/background a simple background fill since you won’t see it anyway.

wesing

I would love to see vines and flowers quilted in the blocks to extend them to the edge. Maybe use a dark purple or royal blue from the fabric.