lindasewsit Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Hi! I have a baby block or tumbling block quilt to quilt. Anyone done one of these that you might have some pictures to show on how you did it? Thanks for the ideas! linda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 Hi Linda, Cc's are perfect on tumbling block quilts. It will give a pretty design on the front and the back. If it is a baby quilt, pick a block every now and then and place a letter of the alphabet --just like building blocks. Or if there is room, spell out the baby's name in the blocks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted June 20, 2011 Report Share Posted June 20, 2011 I like Linda's ideas. You can also do straight lines. Vertical on the sides of the block and horizontal or spiral square on the top. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susan Grady Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 I just sent you a u2u. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega QW Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Well, as long as you ask! I'd love to show you my Tumbling Blocks. This is my quilt, begun as a take-along hand piecing project, little realizing that in order to match the corners perfectly, the entire !@#$% project would have to be hand-pieced! So it's 98% hand pieced, the 2% being my attempt to join a few rows on the machine. I quilted it in CC's, and it turned out to my liking except that, of course, I chose the exactly wrong fabric for the backing. It had all those colors, and I thought it would be just so perfect, but it was so busy that that it "buried" the quilting and it only looks wonderful when the light hits it perfectly. I was especially disappointed because I know the rule about the busy backing! The quilting makes such a nice design on the back and it hardly shows! Sob! Learn from my mistake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega QW Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 The backing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega QW Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Quilting pattern Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega QW Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Close-up backing. How could this cute fabric look so gray from a distance ? ? ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega QW Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Close-up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dancingstitcher Posted June 21, 2011 Report Share Posted June 21, 2011 Your quilt is really well done. Maybe all the hand piecing kept you out of trouble for awhile. The reason the fabric back looks grey is that the eye or camera combined all the primary and tertiary colors resulting in a value of black (presence of all colors) and the white background turned the black to grey. Look at some of the Pointelism (sp?) painters and you can see that they used this technique to create shadows. Check out the push pin artists who use only primary colors of red, blue, yellow, plus white to create faces in full color. Amazing. This is a cute polka dot pattern which I like as a good choice for the back. I have a tumbling block in values of green from 2003 that I have never quilted. Can you say "OLD UFO"? Thanks for giving me an idea. Vicki Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasewsit Posted June 22, 2011 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 Marilyn , wow!! neat quilt !! Thanks for showing it!! that's allot of work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omega QW Posted June 22, 2011 Report Share Posted June 22, 2011 Vicki, Linda, thanks for nice comments. Yes, it kept me out of trouble, but I have a longarm. Who hand pieces a quilt when they own a longarm ! ! ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alnaquilts Posted June 23, 2011 Report Share Posted June 23, 2011 Marilyn-I really like your Tumbling Blocks quilt!! Did you use freehand the CCs or use a ruler? Very nice job-add so much dimension to the quilt. I just may have to make you, I've always liked the pattern! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busy Quilting Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 Everyone should have one hand piecing /applique project on the go so they have something to do when just sitting! Mine is for meetings and TV at night. Lyn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyLake Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 Here's a baby blocks that I just finished. I decided to use traveling and grid sashiko designs across the sides of the blocks. I wanted the beautiful Asian prints on the block tops to stand out, so I used a double batt (QD cotton, with QD wool on top) and quilted a simple floral design that was less dense. This was the first time that I doubled up with the QD wool on top. I was not sure how it would work, since it is so thick, but I thought it worked well and gave great definition to the quilting. It reminds me many years ago when we first started using QD deluxe and supreme loft to get similar results. Another thing that was fun for me with this quilt (we quilters have to get our kicks where we can find them), was a new spool of Rainbows I bought at MQS called 'Gypsy', and that I got to use some older stock of Aurifil -- my customer loves soft yellows, and the soft clear blue variegated went well, too. When I first started the quilt, I outlined the outer edge of each block with Aurifil 40wt. black. I ended up not having the outline the inner edges, as the quilting fill designs tamped it down well enough. I'll post a photo of the thread as well. Thanks for listening -- it is nice to have people who talk the same language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyLake Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 baby blocks thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LadyLake Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 closeup Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrandmaLKB Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 Really pretty ! And now I have another pattern I MUST make someday.........my list keeps getting longer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrsbishwit Posted June 24, 2011 Report Share Posted June 24, 2011 Originally posted by VIVIANMABLE Really pretty ! And now I have another pattern I MUST make someday.........my list keeps getting longer. LOL Linda! I know just how you feel :P:D:P LadyLake great idea, putting a little motif on all of the tops of the blocks, never saw that done before...usually just CC, terry twists or some form of line dancing. :cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasewsit Posted July 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Thanks ladies!! I think I am going with the CC's. I got the quilt out yesterday and it is going to be a real challenge! This is her very first and I think Last quilt she's ever made. Some C and D cups and some of the seam intersections , I don't know if I am even going to be able to quilt over them! I really tried to press those babies down!!! It is not even on the edges, as she just "stopped " making it. so, I will quilt only up to the "straight " edge and trim the rest off when I am done. I also have to put the binding on this one...which I really dislike doing even to my own quilts. You are probably asking "why are you doing this quilt?" Well, she is a very nice sweet neighbor who got transfered to Florida and when she was packing up to move she found this and she had started it YEARS ago for her hubby! She asked me to quilt it for her and of course , I can't say no to a dear friend!! So, off I go to tackle this quilt! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anne from Guam Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Wow, now that was an exercise in patience! Beautiful piecing and quilting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lindasewsit Posted July 2, 2011 Author Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 Anne....Now I KNOW you have to be talking about Joan's and Marilyn's quilts!!!!:P;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted July 2, 2011 Report Share Posted July 2, 2011 all are top of the line, congrats. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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