I am a "newbie" and I have a HUGH question!
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Location: Prescott Valley, AZ
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Welcome. It's a beautiful quilt. My first pieced quilt was a king size double Irish chain, machine quilted. I love your idea of hearts in the white area. JoAnn stores carry a border template for chained hearts that would look really nice in your solid areas. SITD would be great around your diamonds. As long as you are using templates FMQ will not be that difficult. Just be sure to get your rhythm down on a practice sandwich each time you start quilting. You CAN do it!
#40
Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Originally Posted by mammaof5
Would love to do by hand but i would like to be able to use it this year so I will be doing this by machine :)
FMQ on a machine is not easy to master and for this beautiful top I would not attempt to machine quilt your cut heart stencil mark as a total newby, heck I wouldn't do it as an oldy on my domestic machine, on my LA yes, but I never could master FMQ on a domestic machine. But fear not, the TIC design always looks good with straight machine stitching. I would stitch straight lines diagonally through each of your squares forming the chain on the body of the quilt so you would end up with 3 parallell lines of straight stitching going through the 9P blocks that form your chain, on the diagonal. You can do this with a walking foot and it is nice and easy to do so little to no learning curve. SID or just next to the ditch on either side in your lovely seminole piecing to make it pop and SID (or again, just next to the ditch, which is much easier than trying to get in the ditch) on you corner 9P squares. Once that is all done, I would hand quilt your heart stencil in all the white boxes. After that if I thought it still needed more I would do a nice flowing vine and leaf in the dark green inner and outer border that separates the main body of the quilt from the seminole piecing to kind of bring out the floral fabric you used.
Great quilting advise for our newbie with a gorgeous quilt. :thumbup: Welcome aboard from AZ. :-D
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