quilting advice needed!
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hi!
this is a picnic blanket for a family that we see every year at the same music festival, made out of their t-shirts. sorryfor the poor quality of the photo. maybe in the daylight i'll try to get a better image.... how would you quilt it? what colour thread would you use? i am genuinely stumped! thanks for your help! [ATTACH=CONFIG]525257[/ATTACH] |
Beautiful picnic quilt. No idea about quilting always struggle on that area myself.
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I Love the colorful sashing and the way you laid out the tees. Great job! "Stipple" girl, here. Keep it simple.
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I would quilt it with straight line cross hatching using a walking foot and use a neutral thread color, maybe grey. I love that look.
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Depends on your batting. I would SITD in your sashing first. Then try to outline in and around the design in the t-shirt then if there is too much background, I would use one of the background stencils like crosshatching to fill in the larger spaces. These quilts are very heavy so you want to make sure that the three layers of the quilt are secured.
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If I had a long arm I would find a pantograph of music notes. If working on my sewing machine, I would SITD the sashing and quilt each block individually trying to avoid quilting over the printing.
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If you are quilting it on your sewing machine grey thread and wavy lines of stitching would work well.
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I was thinking wavy lines also and a neutral thread. Wavy lined would catch and not be the same in all the right places.
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I would do a crosshatch in a neutral color, but would randomly vary the distance between quilting lines, anywhere from an inch, up to 3 or so.
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Since the construction is boxy, I would go with an all over wavy design in a medium beige. I think a simple meander would work well.
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I've done at least six t-shirt quilts. The last three were memorial quilts for a friend. I did an all over meandering large stipple on one, a large meandering swirl on the second, and flames (for the firefighter in the family) for the third. I used variegated thread and multi colored thread on them. I had no problem quilting over the top of the silk screening designs on the t-shirts. They all turned out beautiful.
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I would quilt it with red or maroon thread so that the red that is already in the quilt is linked and looks more balanced.
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I have no suggestions for quilting, however you did a really great job on the top!
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Another vote for wavy parallel lines down the length of the quilt. Start in the middle and work your way out to each side.
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I would just do a basket weave (the first part of this tutorial) http://theinboxjaunt.com/2014/10/21/...uilt-tutorial/
You could also do it in each block, or across the entire quilt. I like to do each block (mostly because I find it easier), but it's totally up to you. |
Originally Posted by Sandygirl
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I Love the colorful sashing and the way you laid out the tees. Great job! "Stipple" girl, here. Keep it simple.
sandy Well done! |
I agree with Jratcliff. I would tie it -- especially for a picnic quilt.
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My DD just did a allover stipple on this using clear thread.
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What is the color of your backing?
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I agree that a simple meandering would set off the blocks very well.
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I would stabilize it with a STD, then just do a fairly large meander so as not to take away from the pretty T-shirt patterns. Great job on it by the way
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Beige is my choice of thread. The suggestions here are good, so pick one and have at it.
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Very pretty quilt but I'm in the same boat as you. I always have to think on the quilting too
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