dpendleton

I finished this mini-popsicle table runner from Fig Tree & Co and it will become a wall hanging for my twin grandbabies' room.


I need to quilt and bind it by tomorrow!!!

I will be using a walking foot, not free motion quilting. The pattern suggests outlining the popsicles, then stitching the background in 1" crosshatches on point.

You can see here that in addition to outlining the popsicles they did another row of inside stitching. Not sure I like that so much.

I can't find any finished examples of this pattern, so I could use some advice.

Gemini seconded the recommendation for outlining the popsicles and cross-hatching the rest. It also suggested alternatively just doing 1/2" or 1" vertical matchstick vertical lines across the entire quilt, no outlining of the popsicles....

Thoughts?

Onebyone

That is so cute! I'd crosshatch it all over. Don't overthink it. Do what is doable in your time frame. The wall hanging will be on the wall, so the quilting won't be that noticeable anyway.

bearisgray

If it's a wall hanging, just quilt in the ditch between each popsicle block and around the border.

All straight line stitching.

Then if you had more time, you could outllne around each popsicle.

LGJARN52

I do a lot of cross hatching and in my opinion it will look good with 1" cross hatching.

aashley333

I vote cross-hatching the border and then outlining the popsicles twice as suggested in pattern.

toogie

So what have you done? Please show & tell. I also think outlining the popsicles then stippling in the background would look good too. I have done both but I go faster stippling. As you say it’s an urgent finish and since you posted early yesterday, I’m sure you’re done.

dpendleton

I finished it last PM, thanks everyone so much for the advice.

I ended up outlining each popsicle, then doing long rows 1/2" apart along the length and across the ends. They crosshatched in the corners which was nice. If I have more time I'd love to make this again and crosshatch following the advice here.

The "stitch & flip" corners and the multiple piecing to surround each popsicle led to bulkiness and it was hard to keep seams straight. This is one of those times I would say that paper piecing would absolutely make sense.

I washed it and dried it to get it crinkly. Today I babysit twin grandbabies all day (!) and will get started with hanging it in their nursery.

I think I will sew Velcro across the back top, then glue the opposite Velcro to a 1/2" flat 1" wide x 4 ft wide board which will get screwed into the wall. This will allow it to hang super-flat, yet can be removed and washed.

aashley333

Well done! I am using your idea for the borders. I love the effect.

eparys

I love it!! What a fun wall hanging. Looks fantastic.

toogie

I’m sure the recipient was thrilled. Very nice and congratulations on the twins!