Candy Bar Road Quilt Top for My Mom
#21
I like the idea of echo/shadow quilting. It could make your individual candy bars "puff" a bit. Stitching in the ditch would give you a similar result, but I like the echo quilting better. I don't think a cross hatch would work. I think if the quilt was made of squares, it would work nicely. I just can't picture cross hatching on rectangles and it turning out lovely.
I am biased to echo quilting though. Go, 1/4-3/8 in outside the seam and quilt that way. It'll make your candy bars appear 3D. JMO, but I think it would be cool.
let us know what you decide to do.
I am biased to echo quilting though. Go, 1/4-3/8 in outside the seam and quilt that way. It'll make your candy bars appear 3D. JMO, but I think it would be cool.
let us know what you decide to do.
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Quilt looks great. I was going to say that you can just quilt on the diagonal with a fancy stitch but as mpeters said I'm not sure how well that would work with rectangles. Maybe a shadow stithing would be bets and simplest.
#28
Originally Posted by Jadynsmom724
Ok, If I echo quilt around the "candy bar" rectangle. To make the middle rectangle pop. How would I do the other rectangle? Just up and down lines beside the middle two rectangles?
#30
Originally Posted by quiltncrazy
ok, here's my two cents...too bad you can't get candy for that anymore, lol. draw your quilt on paper with a pen and practice different designs with a pencil till you get the look you like. C
I think she's right. You need to find a design that's pleasing to your eye and something you want to do. It is afterall your quilt. Funny thing is, I believe that quilts speak to the quilter and the design you should quilt, will probably come to you right away.
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