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Quilting Ideas?
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This is the Merry Mayhem New Years' Day Mystery quilt and I have no idea how to quilt it.
I quite like how it turned out...and the fact that I used all fabric from my stash to make it, including 75% off border fabric! (Too bad I didn't have enough to mitre the corners.) I'm thinking some sort of centre-type quilting up the middle of the black area...and then a motif in the blocks, but that's as far as I've gotten...any ideas? I will be quilting with invisible poly thread. Thanks! Watson [ATTACH=CONFIG]606231[/ATTACH] |
Wavy lines in the black and some flower motif in the border? Or a vine in the black?
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I think I would want something impressive in the black center rows, maybe feathers? Feather wreaths in the individual coloured blocks and feathers down the sides/top/bottom, using the green line between the pattern and the black for the feathers spine? Maybe the same feather wreaths in the coloured blocks in the black corner blocks? Pretty top!
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look up Angela Walters videos... she's doing a challenge on point to point quilting and i think that will work on this quilt. your quilt is pretty
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I'm thinking those sunshine (sundial type) faces in the blocks and a Greek or Celtic motif in the black.
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I'd go with the feathers in the black, curving all the way up the quilt. And treat each colored block separately--maybe something from Angela Walters Shape to Shape books. And why not modify the pattern of the border print for the quilting on it?
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Pretty quilt Watson...I printed off the instructions for MaryMayhem’s mystery but I was under the impression it was a QAYG?
I agree that your black area would be an inviting space for feathers. |
Originally Posted by zozee
(Post 8187372)
I'm thinking those sunshine (sundial type) faces in the blocks and a Greek or Celtic motif in the black.
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I’d be tempted to do feathers in the black. But I love feathers. You could do them from bottom to top or start with a figure eight in the center of each area and work out in each direction. Alternately, I’d think about a Celtic knot border pattern in each black area. The stencil company will have some that you can look at for inspiration or purchase from them.
Pick a couple of flowery looking motifs for the squares. Or suns. I think I’d follow some of the swirls in the black/gray part of the border and a wavy line down the center of the wavy line of flowers in the rest of the border. |
jmoore...it was QAYG, but I didn't. So now it needs quilting.
I figure it's no different than having done the top then ditch stitched it before I quilted it. Maybe I'm wrong. We'll see! Watson |
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