Quilting the Asian design quilt
 

Started on this yesterday after a lot of procrastination (and I kept forgetting to wash the backing). Printed out a blank of the design from EQ7 and drew the quilting on it. It's coming along....

Is it ever coming along. I had not thought of drawing out a plan for my quilting. I planned it, but only in my head. On paper is much better. Thanks for the idea.

It looks so pretty!!!!!

What great quilting on a wonderful quilt. You are very talented!!

Pam, I so admire your designs and the way they come out of your head and onto the fabric!! Wonderful talent. Look forward to your posts!

Your work is outstanding. It is beautiful.

That is so neat. Love the quilting; looking forward to see the whole quilt when it finished.

Stunning work on the quilting!!!!

So Stunning!!!

very nice quilting.....

Spectacular quilt!

Wow how gorgeous....I love how we get to see it sketched out on paper so cool

Just went back to the post where you showed the whole top because I wanted to see what it looked like. Well .... Wow, does your quilting ever "make" this quilt! It is going to be a stunner for sure! Your idea about planning the quilting on paper is great. I have to keep that in mind for the future.

Beautiful. Wonderful colors.

Wow, that's great! I love the different styles in each area.

It's going to be gorgeous.

That is going to be one stunning quilt!

very pretty!!!!!

Every step of this quilt demanding praise. I feel in love with this quilt every step of the way...and look forward to the finished quilt. Stunning....gifted .......talented...awesome..speechless after that! :)

You are off to a wonderful start. Looks like it will be gorgeous by the parts I can see. Please show us when it is finished.

To mark the scrolls I cut a piece of tracing paper off of a roll the size of the space on the quilt. Folded it into 5 equal sections to get the size of each one and drew the first two scrolls, right-facing and left-facing. Since it repeats I just needed the two. I ironed the tracing paper onto the wax side of a piece of freezer paper cut off a roll and sewed on all the lines with my sewing machine without thread in the needle to make holes. Used a Pounce Pad to mark it on the quilt. For the flowers I drew one on double thickness freezer paper, cut it out, and used it to outline them on the quilt.

Basically did the same for the fan shape in the black but just to determine the location of each direction change. Used a curved longarm template to sew the lines. For the clamshells I marked a 2" grid and used a circle template with lines etched on it to line up each one. Sounds like a lot of work but once it's marked, it goes pretty fast.

I changed the design for the green corner pieces because it stood out to my eye as not flowing with the rest of it.

Thank you so much for the explanation of how you draw and mark your quilt. I'm in the learning process of FMQ and the hints that you have given me are invaluable. Thank you. Thank you.

Love your plan and your execution is spectacular. Can't wait to see this one finished. What quilting are you doing in the center panel?

I'll outline everything in the center and probably McTavishing in the open black areas.

I think I will order a big 48" wide roll of drawing paper since I need it for a couple of projects to totally draw out all the quilting designs. The tracing paper is good for some things but it's obviously too thin to stand on it's own. Sturdier paper would be good to draw on and sew the holes in. I also have some thin and flexible blue plastic on a roll that is for templates that you do the same thing with, sew holes for the design. I will use that for "special" things like the quilt in my avatar.

wow, looks great

Awesome. I love that border design especially

oh my, is that gorgeous

Your quilting talent is amazing..............

pam, you are so talented!

I love Asian and this is absolutely gorgeous. You can send it my way anytime.

What an inspiration you are for us all. Thanks for 'splainning all the methods. Can't wait to see it done!

that is a great quilting plan. Thanks for sharing it.

Wow! That's going to be an awesome quilt!

It sure is coming along nicely. Enjoy the process.

It will be beautiful.

Absolutely gorgeous!!

Half the center done. Outlined in black and followed the flower and swan design. Haven't decided on the background yet and thinking of a fall of cherry blossoms (what the other flowers are) down the sides in the burgundy fabric.

I'm concerned about the density in the center if I do a background fill being a lot more than the other areas. I don't think that's the right thing to do design-wise or quilt construction wise.

That's a great idea and your finished quilt will be awesome.