Well - I decided to use BLACK thread -
Wound one bobbin -
Threaded the machine -
Made chalk lines on some of the squares -
For the direction of stitching -
And stopped there -
In the
plain squares and the black/white flying geese units -
I was thinking of doing diagonal
lines back and forth -
Changing direction in each square and in each
half of the flying geese -
To go the opposite direction of the "wing" seam -
The center portion of
the quilt is really dense patchwork -
And the quilting won't show -
So
I thought I should do something simple like wavy lines -
Across the stars and the flying
geese and blue string blocks -
Only the outer two rows of plain blocks -
And the black/white flying geese units will show the quilting -
The red
flying geese are string blocks -
So they won't show either -
Also - it
will be my first "non-panel" quilt with thick seams -
So I don't want to try
something fancy that will blow up in my face -
Not that I can DO fancy
yet -
But you know what I mean - LOL -
What do you think? - ;))
Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
3 comments:
I think wavy lines or stippling is the way to go for that busy center. The diagonal lines will play against that nicely.
A busy quilt design would be lost.
Sounds like a good plan! And with a wavy design, you can intentionally miss the thicker seams if needed. I'm excited to see how this goes.
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