CoriAmD

Looks to me like you know what you are doing. Your quilt looks beautiful!

sewmom204

finally finished with the top. By the time I got to the last two rows I was pretty comfortable with the Y seams, it was just a lot of handling of the quilt

MTS

Like I said, those that know will be awed by your perseverance. And your finishing up at 2AM is duly noted. :-)

The quilt top is AWESOME. Look at how flat that baby is even with 80 freaking Y-seams!! And I love the border treatment. It all looks so clean and crisp.

Fabulous job.

So what's the plan for quilting? :wink:

sewmom204

So what's the plan for quilting?

Ah yes quilting it. I was thinking about two ways. Straight line diagonal in the ditch connecting each black row of the black diamonds. Or, diagonal a line inbetween the black diamonds. That would be less quilting.
Any suggestions?
Teresa

MTS

OK, full disclosure - I send most of my quilts out to be quilted on a longarm, however, I absolutely never ever say "do whatever you want." I go in with drawings of squiggles,swirls, motifs (I hate feathers), thread colors, border treatments, etc and the conversation begins.

I have no idea what your skill level it, and how comfortable you are FMQ-ing, so let's just assume we're working with straight lines.

I'm just jabbering here....

On the rare occasion I do do the quilting, my actual skill level consists of the Bernina #4 stitch - see picture below.
So if I'm ever quilting in a straight line, this stitch is very, very forgiving, especially if you're doing it in the ditch.
It also adds a bit of interest, and movement - there are enough straight lines on the quilt from the piecing. Do you have a stitch like this on your machine?

I definitely like the double lines better, and I like how the lines make a grid that's different from the actual piecing grid. I like that a lot.

I'd go around the red square as well. And put a path through the white squares and black squares. I like a LOT of quilting.

You can switch up the thread - use white on white, red on red, or black on black - same for the borders, if that's what you're comfortable with.

Maybe in the border on the black you can just go around a few times (see my picture). It goes very quickly. ;-) Use the walking foot to guesstimate the distance between the rounds.

Or you could just continue the grid pattern from the blocks into the borders.

I'm not crazy about doing all straight stitching in the middle and then some feathers or something in the border. But that's my aversion to all things feathery. You know, like some folks are with clowns. I've just never been of fan of them

Like I said, just me jabbering. ;) ;)

sewmom204

Thank you so much for your suggestions. The binding will be red so I think it will give it that extra pop of color
Teresa

MTS

You know what they say about great minds. They say.........damn, what do they say? ;) ;) ;)

sewmom204

So I've finished the quilt and I love how it turned out. The Y seams were such a learning experience and after this quilt I think I've got it down pat now. I even named it the Black, "Y"ite and Red quilt. I used every bit of fabric I bought for this quilt by piecing together enough fabric to make a pillowcase to store it in. I thank each one on this list for the encouragement and instructions to help me finish it. Another project DONE! Teresa

MTS

Hi Teresa,
It looks fabulous!
I so admired how you stuck with your "original" piecing method for this quilt.
You are certainly the queen of y-seams.
I think you should have put how many were actually in the quilt - 80(?) just on the red pieces.

What's up next?

sewmom204

yes it was just the red pieces that were y seamed in. I've always wanted to do a red black and white quilt so completing this one fullfilled many of my goals.