chrisquilter Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 This is a quilt top for the Clinton County Quild Raffle. I have some ideas, but wondered if your collective brains could come up with additional things to do. My question for one thing, is that the dark sashings are only 1 inch wide. If I stitch in the ditch around the blocks, Gasp!!!, do I need to do something inside the 1 inch sashing. I am not a fan of leaving anything unquilted on the quilts I do. When I look at a quilt with no quilting in some places, I feel like the quilter forgot to do that spot LOL. The backing is light and I planned on using a cream thread. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated! Am I being too picky about the non-quilted areas? By the way, this thing is HUGE! Thanks so much, Chris 382 by chrisquilt00, on Flickr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustSewSimple Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 Chris, I am NOT one of the experts but.....I would SID around the sashings to keep the blocks nice and square. I would not necessarily quilt inside the black area. I am quilting for a customer right now who does not like much quilting in her quilts. It makes it hard for me because I have to figure where to quilt and what to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 Originally posted by chrisquilter .....My question for one thing, is that the dark sashings are only 1 inch wide. If I stitch in the ditch around the blocks, Gasp!!!, do I need to do something inside the 1 inch sashing. I am not a fan of leaving anything unquilted on the quilts I do. .... Actually, leaving some things unquilted (such as this narrow 1 inch border) is a very good habit because it gives the eye a place to rest. Quilting something to death is not always the best thing for a quilt. Maybe leave the 1 inch border unquilted for now and finish the rest of the quilting on the quilt... then go back and reassess whether or not to quilt that narrow border. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 I like Shana's idea, if you do decide to go back and quilt something, make it long loopy circles or a ribbon. Something easy and simple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quilting Heidi Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 I left the 1" sashing unquilted in the BAQ I did because I wanted it to pop and creat a nice frame for each block. I have a personal quilt I'm working on that has 1" sashing and I'm trying to decide if I'm going to leave it unquilted. Right now I'm thinking I will do either straight lines or squares on point just to add some quilting to it. Not sure yet though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LibbyG Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 In the Charlotte's Sash quilt I posted about two weeks ago, I left the one inch middle sashing that surrounded the blocks unquilted. I wasn't sure what to do either. Since it's black, I'd leave it as a frame. You could always ask some guild members for their opinion after you have half of it done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisquilter Posted March 12, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 Thanks you guys! I like the idea of leaving it unquited and deciding after everything else is done. I guess I have seen some quilts where the unquilted section looked baggy and saggy and that is why leaving something unquilted makes me uncomfortable. Usually on a sashing or border that small I would do my little wavy stitch, which would work, but I don't want to do it in cream thread on the nice clean black. I think the black shashing is such a striking design element. You really need it to pull this very scrappy quilt together. Libby, I did go and look at your quilts. Yes, you are right, the unquilted borders look great! yea, I'm thinking I won't have to quilt those!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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