I am planning a whole cloth quilt for my niece's wedding gift. Have any of you designed one before? I made a smaller one, wall, or baby size and I want to make this one a queen size.

Do any of you have any tips? I have been collecting quilting motifs etc. I was thinking of a flower wreath in the center with diamond grid filler, and ' flower' fairies at 2 opposite corners, and related flowers, bough type in the other two corners. I am thinking I can't put the center medallion wreath in the center--probably lower since the pillows at the top knock the center point downwards.

I am new to this site, I have been quilting a very long time, and I am from Richmond, TX (close to Houston).

I've never done one but yours sounds like it will be beautiful.

we need to research this and get some help i have a book that may have some ideas i will look and get back to you

memathomas

Thank you Memathomas!

hi, i found this site it has pictures the book just has the actual designs and what is a whole cloth quilts its called Amish quilt patterns and the other is sophisticated stitches

http://www.womenfolk.com/quilting_hi...wholecloth.htm

hope this helps also if you need placement help there is a program called Eq6 is like a digital design board i sometimes embroidery mine as if the square is the block then quilt around that

hope this helps
memathomas

p.s. i would lower the center design to allow for the pillows.

I have done a few small ones, and I love hand quilting them. What a wonderful gift this will be.
Here is a company that has beautiful stencils. they also sell the Whole Cloth tops, already marked. I know it will be just beautiful what ever you decide to do.

http://quiltingstencils.com/index.aspx

My favorite book by far for inspiration and technique in wholecloth is Karen McTavish's Whitework Quilting. The quilts are amazing!

Here for your inspiration are a few pictures of traditional Welsh wholecloth quilts, from a shop in Wales that sells them. The owner has also published a book on Welsh quilts (not all of them wholecloth, but all stunningly quilted).
http://www.jen-jones.com/Solid%20thumbnails.htm

Here's another book on I liked. It has a lot of gorgeous pictures, projects and drawings of traditional wholecloth patterns.
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Welsh-Q...7370542&sr=8-1

Good luck with your quilt!! It will be wonderful. A dear friend of mine is a wholecloth quilter and I love that kind of work.

Thank you. I have to admit, I already have the Stencil Company bookmarked. When I started to layout a for a whole cloth quilt, I used a stencil for the grid background. I got all the way around the side and started finding it was off for the other side. Do you have any tips to prevent this from happening?

The Welsh quilts are beautiful. I saw a quote about antique welsh--do you think it means they are going to be antique or that they are? I thought with the colors that they may be current.

I have been looking at Karen McTavish's site (HGTV has an instruction by McTavish on whole cloth quilts that is good.) It looks like I may have to buy it!

Thank you. I thought it should be lowered too. I enjoy reading about our history. I volunteer/teach at our local museum. It is a museum that is geared toward the early settlers in Texas. (I live in Richmond, TX where the early settlers first came to get the land grants.) I've taken the spinning/weaving course so I could teach-but I haven't found I have a knack for spinning. I teach chores(and archeology)--sounds dull, but you would be amazed at how many things we do today has nothing to do with what our ancestors knew how to do.

The Womenfolk page seems to be right in there with what the pioneers knew. Thank you for sharing. In clicking a bunch of places I came to HGTV and Karen McTavish teaching about setting up to make a whole cloth quilt. Wish DIY and HGTV had kept Simply Quilts and the good programs they used to have. Now it is just about interior decorating and do it your self fixerups for your home.