how would you quilt this???
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how would you quilt this???
I have been stuck for over a month, I have made drawings, tried testers and I cannot figure out what the best design would be for quilting. I know I want to quilt feathers on the dark blue sashing. Any advice would be welcome. I am mostly stuck on how to quilt the square with the pieced flower.
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Since you want to know how I would do it I will say that I am not a fan of lots of machine quilting and go for the older look of hand quilted. This would be 1/4 inch inside echo to each piece. Then I would do serpentine swirls in sashing. Think DNA strand to get the picture. The plain blocks would get some feathers wreaths.
#5
Since you're already doing feathers, could you widen or open up feathers to resemble a flower? Basically a wide feather on each individual flower that would make a type of medallion over the whole block. That would enhance the flower theme of the quilt and still be similar to the other quilting.
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What do you want to stand out? If it is the dark blue what about stippling only that or vice versa? It does not need quilting all over. Just every 4 inches or so. On the big patterned blocks you could do a box in box quilting.
#8
I think to emphasize the flower you could do a leafy shape in the outermost points of the blue then curls or swirls in the next point and an oval in the center. You could do leaves in the white sashing and then instead of feathers leaves in the blue. Rough sketch below
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