Request Ideas for quilting design on Grand-mother flower please!
02-16-2012, 09:19 AM
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Request Ideas for quilting design on Grand-mother flower please!
I would like to hand quilt this GMF. The last one I did, I hand quilted every hexagon ¼ inch from the seam. I would love to have some input from my fellow quilters of the board on what would give a good look to this quilt! Thanks for your help.
02-16-2012, 09:53 AM
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The 1/4 inch inside each hexagon is the only way I have ever seen them done, but draw some quilting designs on clear sheets and audition them by placing the design over your quilt. You might find that many other designs would work as well.
02-16-2012, 10:51 AM
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I am not much help, just thinking that any quilting design that goes over the hexegons you will have lots of seams to deal with. If machine quilting not such an issue, but if you are going to hand quilt this one also, may want to consider that in your choosing.
By the way, it is a lovely quilt and great boarder!
By the way, it is a lovely quilt and great boarder!
02-16-2012, 12:03 PM
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It's a lovely top! How about a spider web effect? Quilt out from all the 60º lines of the center red hexagons. Then quilt a line down the center of the hexagon/circle coloured shapes in rings? The 1/4 inch inside the hexagons is pretty too but a pain to quilt.
02-16-2012, 01:19 PM
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Bonjour Lynnie, Thank you for the compliment. Yes, it is an idea that I saw in a Fons and Porter's Love of Quilting magazine (August 2008) You put all the hexagons together, align the border where the hexagons make a full line and trim off the excess of the hexagons. For my information, what do you mean by "epp"?
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