How to quilt a strip quilt?
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Are you planning to quilt on a domestic machine or a longarm frame? I agree with PaperPrincess if you are planning to use a frame. If you are quilting on a domestic machine, what I would do is wavy lines from one end to the other. You can use a walking foot to do this and simply move the quilt from side to side to create the waves. I will see if I can post an image of what I am thinking of:
http://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/2...al-finish.html
http://jeliquilts.blogspot.com/2013/...-festival.html
http://sewfreshquilts.blogspot.com/2...al-finish.html
http://jeliquilts.blogspot.com/2013/...-festival.html
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I did a couple of jelly roll race quilts and did exactly what Prism99 posted the link to. I used irregular wavy lines with my walking foot on my DSM and it turned out great! I used about 3 per strip with a varigated King Tut thread. It was easy and these were the most fun quilts to quilt too. I think the more irregular the better. And the wavy lines being curvy soften all the straight lines of the pattern. Good luck and enjoy!
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Thank you for the great advice. I already had the quilt on the frame with the stripes going from back to front. I decided to leave it that way and am doing wavy lines across the stripes. It looks good. This is my first time using variegated thread.
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