How do I quilt this?
#1
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How do I quilt this?
Hi everyone, I am new to the forum but not new to quilting, I have enjoyed reading all of your posts, and the tips are great. I have a problem, I cannot come up with a quilting pattern for this quilt. Any suggestions? not so great with FMQ but I can sew a killer straight line, lol. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks,
#4
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I'm of the opinion that you shouldn't 'practice' fmq on a top you like. I would go with straight diagonal lines. You can connect the lines from the center of the paisley square that was created when the blocks were joined to the notch in the cross. Do this in both directions. Then it looks like if you sew a straight line on the side of this square, the line would extend to hit the notch again. See if there are other diagonal lines you can do based on the blocks. Great top, love the colors!
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Someone posted a link yesterday on 31 ways to use your walking foot to quilt. It had some great patterns for just straight stitching and it might be what you are looking for. I would do a direct link but I don't know how. Try using the search button to look for it or maybe someone else will post the link.
#8
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This is a very lovely quilt. Well done. IMHO the type of quilting depends on how you want the finished quilt to look. If you want the quilt to be more gemetric then I would do SID and Diaginal lines thru-out the entire quilt maybe from corner to corner and at intervals across the diaginal of the quilt. (use blue painter tape for this). If you want a softer appearance then I still would do SID around outside of blocks and maybe diaginal inside blocks and then do gentel meandering on the off white part. I would not follow the seam lines since this might break up the over all look of the quilt. How much quilting depends on how you want the finished quilt to look and also what the manufacturer of the batting recommends as the "distance part to quilt". This info should be on the batting packaging. If you center block is larger then the recommendation this you need to stitch inside the block. It is important to follow this recommendation so batting does not come apart with use and washing.
#9
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I'm new to FMQ patterns, but I've seen Baptist Fans used really nicely on patterns with squares & blocks.
Tartan's reference: http://blog.petitdesignco.com/2012/1...-quilting.html
Tartan's reference: http://blog.petitdesignco.com/2012/1...-quilting.html
Last edited by Teeler; 04-11-2013 at 07:26 AM.