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I have this gorgeous Labyrinth quilt to do for a customer. It is going in a show and I promised her something spectacular. I'm thinking some sparkly thread, cool motifs. In the spirit of Lisa Calle's Divide and Design. I have a few different sketches but none of it is doing anything for me. Any ideas?? This is all jewel tones. The colours don't show quite right in the shot.

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How about a cable and feathers on each side of the cable or they can twist together. Maybe one border could have crosshatching with a design within it like Myrna does. Where is Heidi? Oh she is getting ready for the wedding. Okay Shannon please share some ideas here!

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Lovely colors and lovely spaces to fill.

First decision would be modern or traditional?

Traditional--Dell's feather and cable is a great treatment. Formal feathers 100% would be good--giving an Amish feel to the Amish piecing and almost-solid colors.

Modern? So many directions you can take. Line work and circles, full-on marking of motifs with echoes and backfill (ala Lisa Calle as you mentioned), divide into spaces and quilt each one--unlimited possibilities when you nail down the style.

I would probably have my library of Dover books out looking for motif ideas to place along the piecing and then add fills and curved-crosshatched arches.

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Yup Dell busy with wedding but I had a few min. this morning and just needed to chill my brain a little. LOL Here are some various ideas. I personally would do some more funky feathers to keep the modern theme and then add in straight line work. I would fill the background with some dense fills and maybe use a black irridescent type of thread but I wouldn't use a varigated thread that would IMHO compete with the quilt design. Sorry the drawing is so bad but it is the best I can do at the moment. I think you can add even more texture by filling in the negative space in some of the echo fill areas.

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Google Labyrith quilt and you'll get lots of ideas. Reading the title of your post, I envisioned you plowing head-long into a design wall on your bicycle or something! ;):D

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I just finished my 4th one of this pattern for customers. On the custom ones I did triangle feathers in the larger borders and a fern w/spine for the smallest border. I used IQ but I think you could still divide your borders and do triangles free hand if you wanted. In the center I did a point to point design w/Jessica Schick's designs. If you get on some websites for digital you can get some design ideas looking at their patterns (digitechdesigns.com, intelligentquilting.com, sweetdreamsquiltingdesigsns etc.) Good luck- it took me forever to finish them. Glad the last one ws a pant!!!

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