How to QUILT This?
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How to QUILT This?
This is a drawing of a quilt I made (KING SIZE) and now I am trying to figure out how to quilt it. I was thinking about a stencil in the main blocks but it is the alternating blocks (that are all the same) that are puzzling me. Any ideas would be very welcome. This is a surprise quilt for my parents who are celebrating their 50th anniversary in December and this quilt has to be done by then!!
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Since the quilt itself has so much to it already, in my opinion, a small repeating pattern may work. But as I sit here a large, more spaced repeating pattern could also work. It all depends on the look you want, I suppose.
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I am the type of quilter that likes the piecing be up front and what is noticed and not the quilting so I might just free motion in the ditch. You could also arc from the three points in a triangles. I would keep it simple because it must be a beautiful quilt.
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I think if you tried to stitch in the ditch around all those many pieces, you'd never be done in time. It's a large quilt, with many pieces, so the quilting will not really show up a lot anyway (unless you did custom "quilted to death" quilting), so I think I would just quilt an allover pantograph. This quilt doesn't need knock-your-socks-off quilting to make it gorgeous---it's lovely on it's own. And if you keep the quilting simple, you'll be done in time. JMHO