I am finishing up a single bed quilt for my neighbor. Here is a pic, it really looks better than this one shows, but I need some advice. I quilted it with bear paws diagonally across the quilt. Now I did the templates on 8 1/2 by 11 paper, one to a page so they are rather large, perhaps between 7" long by 5 wide, shorter for the front paws. My thought was, it looks like the bear walked across the quilt...so I did not put them too close together, I used the width of the paper, laying the templates directly next to each other and offset by half a page...You can kind of see some of it in the lower right side.
I used the good batting that can be quilted up to 10 inches apart, but to my eye the (green) bottom seems rather sparse. I thought about doing a coyote paw print which would be smaller as a fill-in. the quilting on the center panel does not even show up.
So my question, should I go back and do some fill-in with coyote feet? I am really trying to finish this up, and I am only charging him 50 bucks plus materials. Not that that should dictate but......Thanks all I appreciate your thoughts and suggestions.
Ellen

What batting did you use? It should tell you how far apart is acceptable. I use Warm and Natural and sometimes I push my SID quilting close to the limits. The fact that you question the quilting design suggests that you may want to add some more. It's pretty BTW.

You can do maybe a leaf pattern in just the border, rather than more foot prints. Or just a diagonal on the border. I think just quilting the border separately will do the trick! I like the quilt. Nice work.

What do you think about that, Mad? I think that's all she needs.

Sorry I can't help you just wanted to say it is amazing quilt. :thumbup:

Can you possibly show a couple close up photos. It is hard for me to say anything from such a long distance.

Martina, II used warm and natural, 10 inches is the limit....

Thanks, and I would love to take total credit, but the center piece is a solid panel,....The neighbor just fell in love with it, and don't we all know what that feels like???? So there was very little actual work in piecing it.
Ellen

Sadiemae, this is better, I am not good at pictures.... sorry.
I like the leaf idea, there is a leaf in the center panel I could copy.
And yes, I do think it needs more stitching, much as I would also like to be done with this!


Ellen

Just wanted to say that it is a very pretty quilt; colors are wonderful!

I agree, every time I question myself on how much more quilting or should I add something, it usually needs it!!