Which qulting design do you like best?
05-15-2011, 06:37 AM
#21
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Originally Posted by Izaquilter
I don't mean to be offensive or anything but that is why I like quilting my own quilts. Sometimes too much quilting can take away from the actual quilt pattern, I saw this at a quilt show. There was this beautiful quilt & the quilter had way too much quilting in the quilt & it really was distracting from the actual quilt pattern. Less is better in my book. Therefore I think I'd go with the first design.
05-15-2011, 09:39 AM
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First version for the pinapple looking blocks...then in the center, I would opt to echo the appliques, and instead of the feathers in the yellow sashings, I'd opt for a more open leafy vine...with just a few leaves, a curvy line and a tendral out now and again...maybe a small flower in the very center with tendrals leading to the vines going in all directions.
On the border, I'd also echo the applique...maybe twice..and have tendrals come out to fill in more open areas. Sometimes a little less quilting makes the quilt. If you want to stay with the theme of the 30's fabrics, leave out any stippling/meandering..stick with simple echos, vines, leaves and if you don't like the idea of tendrals (like the little squigleys off a grapevine), then do straight lines from the appliques out on the border, skipping over the applique, that you will have echoed already. Keep those lines straight and even out like piano keys.
Do the same for the inside blocks where the appliqued flowers are.
On the border, I'd also echo the applique...maybe twice..and have tendrals come out to fill in more open areas. Sometimes a little less quilting makes the quilt. If you want to stay with the theme of the 30's fabrics, leave out any stippling/meandering..stick with simple echos, vines, leaves and if you don't like the idea of tendrals (like the little squigleys off a grapevine), then do straight lines from the appliques out on the border, skipping over the applique, that you will have echoed already. Keep those lines straight and even out like piano keys.
Do the same for the inside blocks where the appliqued flowers are.
Originally Posted by bamamama
This is a customer quilt. It is so pretty I want to quilt it really nice and she told me to do what I want and $ is no object...
I'd feel more comfortable offering her 2 price options so this what I came up with. Does anyone have other ideas? I'd like to hear them.
I don't draw well but I think you can get what I'm thinking of doing.
I'd feel more comfortable offering her 2 price options so this what I came up with. Does anyone have other ideas? I'd like to hear them.
I don't draw well but I think you can get what I'm thinking of doing.
05-15-2011, 09:55 AM
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Originally Posted by bamamama
Here's what we finally decided on. Sort of in between. I really like this one, simple but still sort of traditional. I'll do crosshatching in the center and border but a wider cross hatch, not the real narrow one.
05-15-2011, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by Izaquilter
I don't mean to be offensive or anything but that is why I like quilting my own quilts. Sometimes too much quilting can take away from the actual quilt pattern, I saw this at a quilt show. There was this beautiful quilt & the quilter had way too much quilting in the quilt & it really was distracting from the actual quilt pattern. Less is better in my book. Therefore I think I'd go with the first design.
AGREED 100% it seems today that everyone wants to quilt so much that you can't even see the fabrics or quilt design.
05-15-2011, 03:02 PM
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Very nice... I would still do an echo around (outline the applique with one more echo about 1/8" away from the applique) the applique...then rays going out from that, instead of cross hatching, or even the tendrals with tiny leaves added. Crosshatching, if done needs to be 1" or wider apart...you want to keep the quilting density fairly equal overall.
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