The extra TIC blocks in baby quilts
#21
Originally Posted by barnbum
Oh I hope so. It's all those BIG open places... maybe I can trace something on and follow that....
I think I'll avoid it for a bit and move onto the next project. :wink:
I think I'll avoid it for a bit and move onto the next project. :wink:
I just stitched right through the middle of each piece. Goes fast and the total does look good. IMHO
Triple Irish Chain -baby .. Left over blocks from King size
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That's a good idea grammyd. Not every IC needs to be quilted as elaborately as mine was. But of course I had mine quilted.
You remember Karla, it was the shamrock fabric DIC, and I had shamrocks in each square, and a ring of shamrocks in the big spaces, and then fields of shamrocks in the border. But somewhere she inserted ONE four-leaf clover!!
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-21784-1.htm
I don't have a good close up of the quilting, and it's already gone to my aunt.
Of course, I think that if you were to do hearts in each of the center blocks, and then a ring of hearts in each open space, that would be awesome!! (Yeah, I'm just a rabble-rouser at heart). I even have the stencils and patterns you can use, because I did it on another quilt. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
You remember Karla, it was the shamrock fabric DIC, and I had shamrocks in each square, and a ring of shamrocks in the big spaces, and then fields of shamrocks in the border. But somewhere she inserted ONE four-leaf clover!!
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-21784-1.htm
I don't have a good close up of the quilting, and it's already gone to my aunt.
Of course, I think that if you were to do hearts in each of the center blocks, and then a ring of hearts in each open space, that would be awesome!! (Yeah, I'm just a rabble-rouser at heart). I even have the stencils and patterns you can use, because I did it on another quilt. :mrgreen: :mrgreen:
#25
Could you quilt a motif in the big spaces instead of FMQ? Say a heart, or something like that. Even if you did that by hand, you could stitch in the ditch everywhere else.
I did that on the blue and yellow heart quilt. I did all the straight lines by machine and hand quilted around the outside of each heart.
I did that on the blue and yellow heart quilt. I did all the straight lines by machine and hand quilted around the outside of each heart.
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Originally Posted by grammy Dwynn
Originally Posted by barnbum
Oh I hope so. It's all those BIG open places... maybe I can trace something on and follow that....
I think I'll avoid it for a bit and move onto the next project. :wink:
I think I'll avoid it for a bit and move onto the next project. :wink:
I just stitched right through the middle of each piece. Goes fast and the total does look good. IMHO
#27
Karla - re the heart motifs if you decide to go with that, I've ironed on freezer paper templates and gone round the edge with my walking foot before now, butting the edge of the foot against the edge of the paper - worked pretty good if you go slow round the bends. Just an idea! :-D
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OK, I didn't read through all the threads and may be suggesting something totally tabboo in your book but....Why not hand quilt something pretty in the center motifs?
There is absolutely nothing wrong with mixing machine and hand quilting. and it looks great. I've done it on several baby quilts where I have hand quilted a motif that I knew I couldn't do by machine and machine quilted the rest.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with mixing machine and hand quilting. and it looks great. I've done it on several baby quilts where I have hand quilted a motif that I knew I couldn't do by machine and machine quilted the rest.
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