Need advice on how to quilt a vintage top
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Originally Posted by clem55
I'd be tempted to remove the two bottom rows, add those to the side, use the extra for pillow shams, add a pretty solid border and hand quilt with that longer 1/4 inch stitch.
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Originally Posted by clem55
I'd be tempted to remove the two bottom rows, add those to the side, use the extra for pillow shams, add a pretty solid border and hand quilt with that longer 1/4 inch stitch.
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I agree that making the quilt a little more square would look great. I have a quilting friend who was in a similar situation with vintage quilt as you are. She hand quilted it with embroidery floss using a primitive running stitch. It looked wonderful and added to folkiness (not a word I know), of the quilt. She used a light grey, which might work with this project. Make sure if you do use embroidery thread use DMC. Cheap thread will bleed.
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Originally Posted by clem55
I'd be tempted to remove the two bottom rows, add those to the side, use the extra for pillow shams, add a pretty solid border and hand quilt with that longer 1/4 inch stitch.
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my grandma used to call those "toe catchers", and laughed at them. i suspect it was a kind of gentle snobbery to think that not everyone was capable of teeny tiny stitches like hers...
DUMB question, but when you say that "longer 1/4" stitch", do you mean the length of the hand quilting stitch??
I'm so excited to get started. :)
Not sure if that is what it really is called, but I'Ve seen it quite a lot lately, it is a much longer hand quilting stitch, sort of folk artsy.
Originally Posted by clem55
Originally Posted by Happy Treadler
Originally Posted by clem55
I'd be tempted to remove the two bottom rows, add those to the side, use the extra for pillow shams, add a pretty solid border and hand quilt with that longer 1/4 inch stitch.
I'm so excited to get started. :)
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