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Anael 02-10-2012 03:38 AM

Now what? Help please!
 
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I am making 12" blocks, some with rather large white areas. I thought I could use those for practicing my FMQ, using templates. So I did. Now I'm stuck at what to do with the blue areas. I'm not that good at free motion feathers, I'm practicing but I'm too scared to just go ahead. The blocks are on my design wall and I'm staring at them, not knowing how to proceed. Any ideas?

janRN 02-10-2012 03:53 AM

Those are beautiful feathers you did in the white!! Wow!! I think in the blue I'd do a vine with large leaves to go along with the flowers. Also, the FMQ isn't as visible in the print so I don't think you'd need something as detailed as the feathers. Wow--I can't believe you don't think you can do feathers. That's going to be a very pretty quilt.

Anael 02-10-2012 03:57 AM

Thank you Jan :D
I used templates so they're not my free hand feathers! These were 'easy' but now comes the hard part! The vine with large leaves is a good idea, I will pull out a practice piece and see how it goes.

ArtsyOne 02-10-2012 04:04 AM

You can do feathers for me anytime - they're beautifully done! Since the white areas are so intricate, maybe just stitch in the ditch around the blue ones?

Anael 02-10-2012 05:17 AM

Thank you ArtsyOne :D

Sometimes when you look at pictures of blocks you've made it hits you: I thought what if I just stitch around the flowers in the blue fabric. So I did that on one piece and it's looking good. I don't know if I want to do that on all blocks though.

ksdot417 02-10-2012 05:20 AM

Beautiful work. I really like the idea of leaves and vines.

erstan947 02-10-2012 05:23 AM

Beautiful. Whatever you do will be wonderful:)

valleyquiltermo 02-10-2012 05:26 AM

Beautiful quilting, you keep it up. I was going to suggest outling the flowers in the blue connecting them with vines of leaves.

QuiltnNan 02-10-2012 05:44 AM

outlining the flowers is a great idea! love what you've done so far

joyce888 02-10-2012 05:50 AM

The quilting is fantastic and I think the vines idea is perfect.


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