Quilting Advice
08-18-2018, 08:17 AM
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Quilting Advice
Hello fellow helpful quilters,
Here is an image of a quilt i am almost done piecing. I'd like to splurge and send it to a custom quilter. My goal is to have quilting done that will make the 6 panel blocks and 7 pieced blocks pop and let all the connecting blocks just blend in. The 6 panel blocks lend themselves to just outlining the figures in black, since they are already lined with black. But the 5 paper pieced block and 2 9-patch blocks (with the flying geese) need something else. Can those of you artistic free-motion mavens offer some advice? Thank you in advance.
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Here is an image of a quilt i am almost done piecing. I'd like to splurge and send it to a custom quilter. My goal is to have quilting done that will make the 6 panel blocks and 7 pieced blocks pop and let all the connecting blocks just blend in. The 6 panel blocks lend themselves to just outlining the figures in black, since they are already lined with black. But the 5 paper pieced block and 2 9-patch blocks (with the flying geese) need something else. Can those of you artistic free-motion mavens offer some advice? Thank you in advance.
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Last edited by Quilting Chris; 08-18-2018 at 08:18 AM. Reason: Missing photo
08-18-2018, 10:47 AM
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Pretty quilt. I like Julie Paschkis, she always comes up with wonderful fabric designs. I have several of her cat inspired fabrics.
If you choose the right custom quilter I am sure they can offer you plenty of suggestions. Ditching and dense background quilting gets elements to pop in any quilt. If this quilt came to me, I would definitely ditch the panel blocks and all the parts of the pieced blocks. I would outline the picture elements (fish, mermaid lantern and moth) in the panels. I would create a secondary unified design using ruler work in the gold but not the gold in the butterfly blocks. I would need to sketch a while to come up with some ideas. On the two star blocks on the side I would need to know if you want the star to stand out or not, that would impact my quilting choices. In the turquoise setting triangles I would also do some ruler work, probably lines replicating the triangle shape with some nice fill work in between lines, this would replicate elements used in the gold areas. Your outer border is busy fabric so nothing fancy will show there. Probably piano keys with possibly a fill in every other key. Or do a beadboard type piano key. The inner red/turquoise border I might treat as one unit.
Coming up with design elements on the fly is usually not my style. I usually need to sketch several designs motifs and decide what fits the quilt best taking into consideration your likes and dislikes.
If you choose the right custom quilter I am sure they can offer you plenty of suggestions. Ditching and dense background quilting gets elements to pop in any quilt. If this quilt came to me, I would definitely ditch the panel blocks and all the parts of the pieced blocks. I would outline the picture elements (fish, mermaid lantern and moth) in the panels. I would create a secondary unified design using ruler work in the gold but not the gold in the butterfly blocks. I would need to sketch a while to come up with some ideas. On the two star blocks on the side I would need to know if you want the star to stand out or not, that would impact my quilting choices. In the turquoise setting triangles I would also do some ruler work, probably lines replicating the triangle shape with some nice fill work in between lines, this would replicate elements used in the gold areas. Your outer border is busy fabric so nothing fancy will show there. Probably piano keys with possibly a fill in every other key. Or do a beadboard type piano key. The inner red/turquoise border I might treat as one unit.
Coming up with design elements on the fly is usually not my style. I usually need to sketch several designs motifs and decide what fits the quilt best taking into consideration your likes and dislikes.
08-19-2018, 02:21 AM
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I don’t know who you plan to send the quilt out to for custom quilting but a good LA quilter should be able to make recommendations on the quilting especially if you explain what you want. The one I use lays a piece of heavy clear plastic over the quilt and marks patterns on the plastic with a dry erase marker so you can “preview” the design.
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