Tracey Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 This is the next customer quilt to go on the frame. I have pounded out about 10 pantos in a row so I am excited to get to the front of the machine. Any ideas ladies?? These are actually one seam flying geese which the customer has then folded back and top stitched to look like cathedral windows. This quilt is big. Approx 108" square. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Posted June 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 another view Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Posted June 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 a close up of one of the geese folded back Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Posted June 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 oops!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Posted June 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 any ideas would be greatly appreciated. This lady is great and I can do whatever I want. I'd like to do something really funky and fun as it is for a young girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeeAnn Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I have a wall hanging that has similar folded edges to yours. I haven't quilted it yet. Not sure how to handle them. I am anxious to see what others think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I think I would CC the geese that aren't folded back. Leave the ones that are alone. And do a great filler in the black areas of the quilt. Also, continue your filler on a larger scale into the yellow border. Swirls as a filler might look great! Any ideas yet? Does this help? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewlinzi Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Something feathery or swirly?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Posted June 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I was toying with the idea of black thread in the yellow border to balance the colours a bit. What do you think?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodlebug Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 hi tracey. here's my ideas. thread: use a nice varigated in the geese. i would use black in the black. don't do a filler that is too complex, it won't show...wait, what's the backing....anywhoo. then i would do the curly feathers centered in the outer yellow border with the same vari using in the geese leaving some room on both sides. then using yellow thread, do the same filler from the black in the quilt on the yellow with yellow thread. that way the 'thread story' of the quilt will be consistant in the border as well as the quilt: you can see the thread details, but the filler blends. i like the straight line meander for the black...the sharp angles compliment the pieced geese, and are opposite of the curved ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodlebug Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 here's some ideas for the geese. hope one gets you going... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodlebug Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 the border: i want finished pictures.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Linda S Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 How much is she willing to pay? Those windows would look great with curved crosshatching in them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marlette Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I have no better ideas than those given but I'd like to know about the pattern. I don't quite get the one seam flying geese folded back description. Is it in a book or pattern? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bunny Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 I am with you Marlette, I don't know about that technique Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Tracey, if it's for a young girl, I would pick a really bright variegated color thread and do a flower in each curved block or something swirly or girly-fun. You know... And, in the flying geese, you could do something leafy that is continuous, too? Or maybe another type of flower that is repeated? That might look really cute. For the black background I would just use solid black thread and quilt something simple for texture and to nail it down. In the wide yellow border, just do some of the same flowers and leaves meandering all about in the yellow border. In the border, repeating the same types of flowers and leaves and swirlies from the middle areas would tie it all together, dontcha think??? :cool: Definitely show pics when you are done with your magic touches!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSewSimple Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Marlette, the sides of the geese are cut on the bias. The bias is stretchy so it can bee folded back and looks like you pieced a curve. It is an easy piecing method. I have a book around here someplace........... Shannon, I have been loging on to this thread just to see what you suggest with all your drawings and again, I can see how you nailed it! Come stay with me a month or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doodlebug Posted June 22, 2009 Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 shana- hey, flowers. i always forget about flowers. i'm not a flowery type of girl, so i tend to forget to include them in my go-to design ideas.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tracey Posted June 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2009 Hey girls, I have it 2/3 finished at this point. My ideas ended up close to what you had suggested. I have meandered (yuck) in all the black background with black thread and now I am doing the pink windows with a swirly thing. I'll post tonight after the kids have gone to bed. I have also done leafy feathers in the black border. Will post later. Thanks for all the help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anniquilter Posted June 24, 2009 Report Share Posted June 24, 2009 Marlette & Bunny Mary Ellen Hopkins just came to our guild & showed these geese. You use 2 squares for your sky fabric & a rectangle for the geese. Fold the rectangle in half with short sides together & right side out. Lay it onto a RS up sky square & lay remaining sky sq WS up on top. Lay this unit down so that when you look at the stack the geese fabric folded edge is at the top. Sew seam down the right hand edge. Press and open the unit. Lay out the Geese fabric so that the remaining long side lays along the bottom edge of the rectangle formed by the 2 sky sqs. What you now have is a folded goose. After you have captured the lower edge in the next seam you have a pocket on each side of the goose. The folded edges are bias so you can later fold them down & stitch as per cathedral windows. Hope this makes sense. Wish I had 'Doodlebug's' skills with the tablet to draw this for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toni123 Posted June 30, 2009 Report Share Posted June 30, 2009 :oI can remember my mother teaching me how to do catheral windows. That's when I told her that I was going to Marry me a man who will buy my quilts. I know she is laughing in heaven on that one. Now I am teaching quilting and doing longarm quilting. Who would have thought. But I still have that square of catherial windowns that will never be complete. How aweful to start a beginner on such a project. Love this flying geese/catheral window method. Who knows I might even teach this in a class. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judi Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 still trying to figure-out "how" these are done..... I think I need to grab some scraps to use while I am reading the instructions, maybe that would help..... and waiting for finished photos too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoryJM Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 Judi, do you have access to "The Quilt Show" DVDs? Ricky Timms demonstrated this and it looks really easy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LindaFritchen Posted July 1, 2009 Report Share Posted July 1, 2009 If you are interested, in the birthday exchange a couple of years ago, Lorrie Haule of MN sent a block made with this method. She said it was from a book by Annette Ornelas called Peeled-Back Patchwork which I then HAD to have . It explains the technique and then shows several lovely quilts using the bias edge to make your curves. Here is a block I made for a local fund-raising contest. The seams get a little thick. Not sure I would want to quilt many of them. Someone be brave and give it a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judi Posted July 2, 2009 Report Share Posted July 2, 2009 I will ask my guild member if anyone has those DVD's I can borrow.... Is this the same as the Peeled-back in the photo above??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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