True Lovers Knot top completed, now how do I quilt it??
02-08-2011, 11:20 PM
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Originally Posted by stewyscrewy
Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Beautiful quilt! Even though many like to offset straight linear piecing with curved quilting I would prefer to emphasize you beautiful piecing by mimicking the lovers knot in the quilting. I would do a kind of SID but where the lovers knot is supposed to be going over/under I would quilt it that way just like celtic knots.
02-08-2011, 11:39 PM
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Brilliant work.
To my thinking, you would be best served either doing a meander or going to the other extreme and mimic the pattern with your quilting. I think it would be a mistake to do anything that fights with your basic design.
To my thinking, you would be best served either doing a meander or going to the other extreme and mimic the pattern with your quilting. I think it would be a mistake to do anything that fights with your basic design.
02-09-2011, 12:54 AM
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Originally Posted by stewyscrewy
Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Beautiful quilt! Even though many like to offset straight linear piecing with curved quilting I would prefer to emphasize you beautiful piecing by mimicing the lovers knot in the quilting. I would do a kind of SID but where the lovers knot is supposed to be going over/under I would quilt it that way just like celtic knots.
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