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Old 12-01-2014, 05:37 AM
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I would use the white space for some beautiful quilting motifs!!
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Old 12-01-2014, 05:49 AM
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I think it is a beautiful quilt as is. You may like some special quilting in the white spaces. It is amazing what quilting patterns can add to the spaces. Good luck on your decision.
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Old 12-01-2014, 12:50 PM
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How about echoing about a quarter inch away from the zig zaggy lines of the dresden blades. Then echo again a half to three quarters of an inch away and fill that area in with circles or pebbles. Kind of a addaptation of this from sewkindofwonderful http://sewkindofwonderful.com/blogs/...-chevron-quilt. Then you could do more echo quilting or whatever. I bet ideas would start flowing. I'm doing this on a quilt right now and really like how it's working out. It isn't too difficult on a smaller quilt. Yours may be harder since it looks pretty big. Also, a pale yellow thread would be pretty agains the white, I think. It's a lovely quilt. Hope you have fun quilting it!
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Old 12-01-2014, 02:36 PM
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Thanks everyone for the input - Wishful, I appreciate that link which looks really good. The quilt isn't that big it is a lap size so I think I might give this a go.
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Old 12-01-2014, 03:54 PM
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Just depends on the batting you used and what you are comfortable in quilting. I would go with an accent yellow inside border and then the blue on the outside. Blue and Yellow alwasy makes such a happy quilt.
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Old 12-01-2014, 04:44 PM
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Glad you liked the link. Do show a pic of how it's coming along. Looking forward to seeing your progress!
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Old 12-01-2014, 06:10 PM
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My mom hand quilted all her quilts and when she did the fan quilts (and she did many of them), she had a pretty rose with a leaf on each side that she quilted in the white spaces--very pretty!
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Old 12-01-2014, 06:31 PM
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It is pretty as is, with just quilting in the white areas would be beautiful. If you put something of color, it might be too busy. I love it.
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Old 12-02-2014, 03:36 AM
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Quilting!!! Grand quilting!
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Old 12-02-2014, 03:50 AM
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Do some dense or fancy quilting.
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