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redeagle 03-29-2011 08:27 AM
These quilts cry to be hand quilted! I hand quilted 1/4" on my GGM quilt and my DH GM quilt as I want them to stay in the family.

doowopddbop 03-29-2011 08:58 AM
Originally Posted by clem55
I'd be tempted to remove the two bottom rows, add those to the side, use the extra for pillow shams, add a pretty solid border and hand quilt with that longer 1/4 inch stitch.
I agree with clem55 here. Looks like it might be just right laid out in 5 x 5 blocks square. That leaves three extra blocks for pillows, or to hand stich singly and frame to give to relatives.

greaterexp 03-29-2011 01:13 PM
Originally Posted by clem55
I'd be tempted to remove the two bottom rows, add those to the side, use the extra for pillow shams, add a pretty solid border and hand quilt with that longer 1/4 inch stitch.
I agree. Could you quilt in the ditch for the narrow strips of the log cabin and put a small design in the center (red) pieces? I would definitely hand quilt this, too.

My time 03-29-2011 04:05 PM
I agree that making the quilt a little more square would look great. I have a quilting friend who was in a similar situation with vintage quilt as you are. She hand quilted it with embroidery floss using a primitive running stitch. It looked wonderful and added to folkiness (not a word I know), of the quilt. She used a light grey, which might work with this project. Make sure if you do use embroidery thread use DMC. Cheap thread will bleed.

madamekelly 03-29-2011 05:08 PM
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madamekelly 03-29-2011 05:09 PM
Originally Posted by clem55
I'd be tempted to remove the two bottom rows, add those to the side, use the extra for pillow shams, add a pretty solid border and hand quilt with that longer 1/4 inch stitch.
Good answer!

Stitchit123 03-29-2011 05:18 PM
your 1st pic bottom row center block -lt blue/br./red/white plaid fab is from 1972 I made a dress out of the same fab for home-ec a blast from the past-I seem to forget I'm really not 25 anymore

deplaylady 03-29-2011 05:21 PM
I bought one a finished quilt really similar to that one at a sale. It was tied.

shesewcrazi 03-29-2011 05:58 PM
only hand quilt.........

svenskaflicka1 03-29-2011 06:15 PM
my grandma used to call those "toe catchers", and laughed at them. i suspect it was a kind of gentle snobbery to think that not everyone was capable of teeny tiny stitches like hers...

Originally Posted by clem55
Originally Posted by Happy Treadler
Originally Posted by clem55
I'd be tempted to remove the two bottom rows, add those to the side, use the extra for pillow shams, add a pretty solid border and hand quilt with that longer 1/4 inch stitch.
DUMB question, but when you say that "longer 1/4" stitch", do you mean the length of the hand quilting stitch??

I'm so excited to get started. :)
Not sure if that is what it really is called, but I'Ve seen it quite a lot lately, it is a much longer hand quilting stitch, sort of folk artsy.


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