Even though I grabbed some of the scraps from this quilt for my calendar quilt, I'm posting this off topic cry for help because with 90+ members of this group, I know y'all will have some great suggestions for me and quick!Help! I need to quilt this top very quickly tomorrow so I have thursday for the binding because it needs to be given as a gift on friday!
(I cut all the pieces saturday, assembled the blocks sunday, and pieced the top yesterday. Today I pieced the backing, ironed it all, and I'm stretching my handy dandy B-Line frame (with HQ16) from it's usual 7' to 10' so it'll be big enough to load this quilt!)
The pattern is called 'Snapshots' from Atkinson Designs.
I need suggestions on how to quilt this beast. It's 82 x 94 (queen size) and the backing fabric (which I can't seem to get the picture to load) is a cream with a few longitudinal stripes of a reddish color. I'm thinking something curvy since the design is so linear?
Please please please, lay those ideas on me!
--Karen
5 comments:
what if you just meander/stipple it???
it'll definitely do the pattern justice and shouldn't take you TOO long.
I made two of these quilts for Christmas gifts last year. My long arm quilter did large loops on them. If you want a photo I can send you some close-ups.
Email me quilt@centurytel.net
Nancy
i would say stipple or big loops. stipple would be my first choice but i almost think that big loops might be quicker??
good luck!
deanna
Thanks guys. I pulled out the white board and dry erase markers and practiced a large meander and some different kinds of loops.
The really big stipple looks the best to me, so I guess that's what's going on the quilt.
Thanks y'all!
Yes, I think circular is the way to go to offset the squares! Beautiful job!
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