Quilting Heidi Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Hi All. I need your expert advice on this top. This is a customer quilt and she wants complete custom. She has decided she wants wool batting. It is for her daughter and will be in her living room. I'm having a really tough time deciding on what to do to make that outside star to pop, it is the dark purple. I'm going to outline the green & rose triangle area 1/4" and then fill with diagonal cross hatching. I have a stencil that fits perfectly. The purple star points is what I'm having a really hard time deciding on what to do. I want to make that star pop. I think had she not used the rose color and just kept them all green it would be prettier but I'm guessing the pattern called for it or something. She really wants feathers on it. I'm going to fill the blocks with various feather designs and SID. In the off-white area I'll do some kind of feather with a hook design but those star points have me stumped. The are at a very odd angle! Any help is very appreciated! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted November 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Here are a couple things I've come up with. What do you all think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DB Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Heidi, I love your ideas. I think it really works. Dianne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lym95 Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 I love your ideas, they seem to pull everything together, because quite honestly I did not care for the quilt until I saw your ideas added on, it seemed disjointed, but your crosshatching just compliment it. Be sure to post the real thing when you are finished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Heidi, could you indicate using paint to mark them somehow, what you mean by the outside or purple star? I'm comfuzzled as usual. PRetty quilt and great ideas.. RitaR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted November 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 Thanks Majoric and Dianne. I really like the colors but I agree it is disjointed. I think if she had stuck with just the green it would be better. Rita don't feel bad cause when she told me it was I was like huh? Then I finally got it. Here it is highlighted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted November 30, 2008 Report Share Posted November 30, 2008 I agree with you...she should have stuck with the green...the purple throws it all off. But I think you have a great plan as Mrs. Margie said...it was disjointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Heidi, even after you highlighted it, it still took me several minutes to find it.. No, it's not the prettiest it could be. The one block I like, but not where it is, is the very bottom right one, seems way too small compared to the others. I really don't much like her use of different colored triangles around the edge and the two red ones, all else green on the outer edge.. I'd like that more balanced.. After really seeing it.. I say it's your call. LOL.. cop out big time, huh? You will do it justice. RitaR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Could you use a different thread color in the purple parts? that might make it stand out even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 hope this shows what I mean.. RitaR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted December 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Tira I'm so with you on those triangles! If she had made them all green I think it would look so much better. I can't think to do much else except to treat all the triangles the same so that it doesn't stand out so bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 You know I wish you luck, and I know you will hit it right. I dread the day I get quilts like that.. will have a mighty sore tongue by the time the quilter leaves. RitaR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollyrw Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 To be honest, I didn't even notice the odd purple triangles until you pointed them out. My first thought was Victorian feathers in the triangles and something different for each block. I like your idea of the cross hatching in half the triangles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hollyrw Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 What a coincidence, I was just browsing around a site that's having a sale and I found this quilt. It was originally a BOM. In the picture, the color of the triangles is more consistent. http://www.quiltersquarter.com/cgi-bin/Store/store.cgi?cart_id=5874612.25837.s0&product=Quilt_Kits_1&productid=BatikSampler&sales=0&lastmenu= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted December 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Holly thanks for the link...at least now I know she didn't mess it up, lol! I wish I could see the quilting better. I did a search for it on webshots but couldn't find it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted December 1, 2008 Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 OK now I see!!! Heidi, comparing Holly's link to your customer's quilt photo on top, it looks like the customer actually did mix it up and misplaced the purple and the green outer setting triangles incorrectly in several areas of the quilt. Yikes! Would it be best for you to mention this to your customer so she can fix this before you quilt? You could politely mention it to her and ask what she'd like to do.... I think using the lighter purple (or the green) in all of the outer triangles (the ones pointing out) would look best and leave the darker purple for the inner blocks where the triangle form a large ohio star. JMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted December 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Shana, I couldn't agree with you more but it is what she intended actually. If you look she moved the block placement around. She wanted the 4 applique blocks in each of the corners. I honestly didn't see the big star until she told me about it. If you look even in the link that holly sent there are still 2 different color triangles in the outside border and there doesn't seem to be a pattern to it. That would drive me crazy! To each his own. I think had she got with the green for all the triangles it would look a lot prettier and the ohio star would pop more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted December 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 1, 2008 Yikes I just looked at the sample from Holly again. Look at the bottom right side, she has her block turned! Actually it is the bottom three blocks turned wrong! If she hadn't turned it all the outside triangles would be the lighter purple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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