PattyJo Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Hi all you people with talent ooo-zing out of your brains.....yes, you! Can you give me any ideas on how you would quilt this beautifully pieced quilt? My customer just brought it to me and I have a week or so to think on it until it will go on the machine. Any ideas out there? Here is a picture of it. Thanks in advance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Front Porch Quilting Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Patty Jo I will leave the ideas to the experts but just wanted to say that this is a beautiful quilt. Can't wait to see it done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 If you can be patient..I can dig mine out and take a photo of it. I did it on a dsm before getting Frogger...but everyone liked it. You will probably get better ideas from others...but still...I will share you mine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattyJo Posted March 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Ok, Kristina, YOUR IDEAS ARE JUST AS GOOD AS ANYONE ELSES! I told my customer that I would get ideas from here and she will make the final choice as to what she wants. So I'll be waiting for your pics!!! :P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 here is a full shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinneaMarie Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 I think this is the one Sew Batik sells in a kit. I can send the cover photo on the pattern of the quilting if you like. I doesn't show up in a scan or I'd do it that way. It has a sort of Greek key in the white squares next to the stars. Then wavy radiating lines coming out into the corners. I can try to draw it?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 another closer up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LinneaMarie Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Oh, here is the link and you can almost see the quilting!! http://southwindquilts.com/Webpages/mexicanstar.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBQLTN2 Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 gorgeous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 another Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 last one...a corner shot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 okay...now I am exhausted from resizing! anywho...remember this was done on a dsm. I would probably do something similar to it now though given the chance. In the solid blocks outside the mexican star..I tried to mimic the design that was turned back. Wow..have I come a long way! That's all I can say. Hope this helps give you some ideas!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Wow Pat--that is a gorgeous top!! Does it stop at the white border? I see a pretty purple behind it, but I can't tell if that's part of it or not. As for quilting, does the customer want the flipper-floppers kept loose?(technical term for those folded-back cathedral window style triangles) That makes it hard to do CCs without catching the loose edges. I guess your option would be careful placement of a continuous-line block design to cover the purple flowers. Then you would need something in the white squares in between--looks like starts and stops in those. OK--I will back up a bit. You have one "flower" at the top, then two flowers/three/two/one. Find a way to do continuous quilting starting at the center yellow square of the first flower. Just a for-instance--pull up your thread in the upper left corner of the yellow center square (if your customer is OK with it--I would use gold thread!) Do a squiggle or wave across to the left in the sashing keeping the stitching in the top half of the strip. Make a turn at the end and squiggle back to the lower left corner of the yellow. Or do a wave out and an overlapping wave back. That fills the sashing and will be quilted in each sashing section as you come to it. From the corner, throw a petal/hook/petal to fill the two petals of the flower and the small square. You are back in the corner and ready to stitch the next section of sashing. Stitch down to the seam in the sashing, back up, flower petals, sashing, flower until you complete the first flower. Then take on the next row of two flowers, etc, until the flowers are done. My brain is now empty. Have fun with the white areas--you will shine on those, I know!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 As I was writing the novel above, Kristina was posting the photos of that pretty quilt!! I love it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
witha'K'quilting Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 See PJ...I told you that some other great ideas would come along! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattyJo Posted March 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Yes Kristina, there are lots of great ideas, and your quilt has a lot of them in it. thanks for posting the pics of that georgous quilt. I love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattyJo Posted March 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Linda - I printed off your novel (LOL) so that I could go to the quilt and draw with my finger according to your description. I'll give it a go and then try and describe it to my customer. Oh and the purple is her backing just laying on the table behind the top. Isn't it georgeous!!!!! LinneaMarie - thanks for posting the pic of the pattern cover. She actually left me the pattern so that I could see how they quilted it. She liked parts of it but not all of it, so she wanted to get the ideas. But you are a sweety to put the link in for all of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meg Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 i love Love LOVE that top! it is gorgeous. please do not forget t show the finished pics - i bet it will be too fabulous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackie_lathem Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Patty Jo, sent you a u2u. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PattyJo Posted March 6, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 I got it Jackie. Thanks Any more ideas out there??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Sparrow Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 I've done three of these for the same lady! Let me find the photos. I remember I followed the quilting on pattern for one of them and it turned out quite nice. I'll be back with pics of the other two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nora123 Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Hi PattyJo, in the colored areas I see CC's and the large white areas I see feathers. Nora Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anniemueller Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 I've got the same quilt to do. So I'm absorbing everyone's ideas too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 I have the pattern but still haven't made it. I really hadn't thought much about how I'd quilt it. I recall thinking that the cathedral shape was a great space to quilt up special though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Oh, Patty Jo, in the large light blue blocks I see spirals... and in the small square with the corner of dark fabric, I'd do the same. I'd put feathers about 5-7 parts in each of the curved ends of the flowers, on the outside edge. I would make tiny spirals in the small blue blocks.. and pebbles in the white background... and probably mess it all up. It is so pretty and so many good ideas, I'm glad I'm not the one to choose the suggestions put forth to you, and the owner. And Please show us a finished pict. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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