I have just completed my first solo quilt. I duplicated one my mom made in 1939 which consisted of 30 14" blocks (5 across and 6 down) with an appliqued tulip on every other block. I decided to add a border and have ended up with an enormous quilt. It is going to be very difficult to quilt on my standard sewing machine. I decided to try and 'stitch in the ditch' around the big squares on the machine. Would it be acceptable to then use a small quilting hoop and hand quilt around the tulips? Or, should I just find someone to professionally quilt it? Please share some opinions :)
I don't know what's "right" but I've done several quilts with both machine stitching and hand stitching. It's been said before: "It's YOUR quilt."
I had to finish a t-shirt quilt that way. And just this week, I finished a baby quilt that way, too. It's whatever the quilt tells you to do. (I'm NO PRO, but I do get a lot of great advice from the awesome people on this board. They give me confidence to try new things.)
lclang
04-16-2011 07:55 PM
You are the artist, do what you want. There are no rules! I like to march to my own drummer!
