Janstar's Memory quilt......quilted by Charisma
02-20-2011, 01:30 PM
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Janstar and I met a few weekends ago to pick up her quilt....
I love this memory quilt and it took me that long to design what I was going to quilt. Each picture represents something different..each block has different fabric and trying to make it all cohesive and fluid was stumping me...it is obviously her Grandson?? I kept seeing the same face in every photo..handsome young man!
SO what I decided was to kind of make "PHOTO FRAMES" around every photo or block....to give it unity every other block had the same frame..and then I made each frame on the opposite ones a different more elaborate frame to give it some interest ....I stippled the outside edges...and inside the frames I just did some light block work to keep the fabrics together without quilting over photos..I would never dream of doing that to someone's quilt.
If I wasn't a scrapbooker I don't know that I would have thought of this idea..and I just LOVE the outcome!
I had my kids hold the quilt outside to get pictures..so they re kind of awkward...my DH is folding laundry on my bed..I dare not interrupt him or I will have to fold :wink:
I quilted this all freehand on my INNOVA....no pantos or computer quilting.....
Thanks for looking!
I love this memory quilt and it took me that long to design what I was going to quilt. Each picture represents something different..each block has different fabric and trying to make it all cohesive and fluid was stumping me...it is obviously her Grandson?? I kept seeing the same face in every photo..handsome young man!
SO what I decided was to kind of make "PHOTO FRAMES" around every photo or block....to give it unity every other block had the same frame..and then I made each frame on the opposite ones a different more elaborate frame to give it some interest ....I stippled the outside edges...and inside the frames I just did some light block work to keep the fabrics together without quilting over photos..I would never dream of doing that to someone's quilt.
If I wasn't a scrapbooker I don't know that I would have thought of this idea..and I just LOVE the outcome!
I had my kids hold the quilt outside to get pictures..so they re kind of awkward...my DH is folding laundry on my bed..I dare not interrupt him or I will have to fold :wink:
I quilted this all freehand on my INNOVA....no pantos or computer quilting.....
Thanks for looking!
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