A customer brought this quilt top to me yesterday for quilting and said to do whatever I felt was right with it. I think I'll do a med size meander in the background, put bear paws in the cornerstones, wavy line through the blue sashing, SID the border and around the bear but cannot decide what to quilt inside the bear itself. Any ideas?

I'm going to use tone on tone dark/med/light brown thread.

If I were doing it, I think I would do cross-hatching in the white background, and use the medium meander inside the teddy bear. Especially if the thread matches well. I would want the teddy to pop up more than the background does, and I think the cross-hatching would be easy to do on those little squares....

I think I would do med swirls in the bear - would make it look like fur.

I would try something curly to give the impression of curly hair. Maybe something like this:



http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_HysgxB-7_q...seidonseye.JPG

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_HysgxB-7_q...67echohook.jpg

Seems we had the same idea and you posted while I was looking for swirls. :)

I like that idea, I think the second one is best, curly but not so swirley. LOL

Great Quilt!

how about meandering curlycues that would look like a fuzzy bear?

or hearts because teddybears are so full of love!

Thusnelda,
What blog is that from? Those are great ideas! I'd love to see more!
ruth

Make the brown bear look like fur

That looks like it would be really cute for the fur. please show us when it is done!

I dont know,but he is really cute.

I would first make the paws, eyes, nose and insides of the ears stand out (SID) and give the bear its chin and define the feet, then do the fur.

I got the pattern from the following site:
http://www.daystyledesigns.com/freemotionquilting.htm

I found the site mentioned in a thread about free-motion-quilting here on the board.