MarleneC

If this is the same quilt I made--and yes it was a class and expensive--each block was to be pre-quilted by using the decorative stitches on the machine. One might have little flower designs or serpentine lines. Took a lot of time and then again--leaves you wondering--how do I quilt this.

alikigirl

That quilt looks very much like one I did years ago called Bloomin' Flowers. I did what you want to do - just make the top as usual and get it quilted by a longarmer. I just had an overall stipple done. You will need to alert her if there are any 'special' areas to be careful of - mine had a few flowers with fringe.

Sandygirl

beautiful too! Great colors...on both posts!
sandy

skaduzy

I have taken this class......all my blocks are finished except the last two months but they are started. Yes, it is expensive but I tried to use fabric from my stash to help out on the cost. Now I need to get together with the instructor and try to finish blocks and then put it together. She said she has a way to do it that is easy. I am going to get this done one way or the other since I've been working on it since May of 2016 and now it's a challenge for me.

Sandygirl

post a photo when you finish it!

sandy

MarleneC

This is the quilt I did--when taking the class you follow the instructions and then later find you didn't like doing the partial quilting of each block. I added some butterflies, etc to mine to make it a little different.

Boston1954

If you really are not enjoying this thing, how about making a few pillows with what you have done, and use the rest of the fabric for something else?

weatheread

Yes my sister and I started this quilt a few years ago and still not finished but have too much invested in it to give up on it so every now and then we pull it out and work on it not all the techniques of this quilt are easy to understand

Sandygirl

Love your quilt! I recently bought along arm. Still thinking of using it on the Stitchers Garden.

sewingitalltogether

I also have this pattern. One of my sisters wanted to do a quilt together. So she bought the whole kit, probably about $400. I bought the pattern. I don’t buy kits. My sister has given up and sent her stuff to another sister to sew. Looking at the front page, at the picture of the quilt. It’s a nice quilt. If you take out all that black. So, I have decided to put this on my ‘winter quilting’ list. You know, frozen outside, snow is deep enough that you don’t want to go anywhere. I’m planning on using batik scraps for the flowers. Bright colors. The background and block fabrics I will use multiple light batiks.
Oh ya, and don’t plan of following the directions. I’ll fuse the flowers and go around the edges with invisible thread zig zag stitch.