Best quilting pattern for tumbling block quilt

newquilter wrote:

Dear No Name

Can you post a picture so we can see your quilt.  Generally with
tumbling blocks/ isometric designs, parallel lines following one or
directions looks pretty good. You could use a variagated bright thread
for contrast.

Cheers
Bronwyn

Sorry to be so illerate but I do not know how to post a picture to this
group.  I took a picture with my cell phone and got it into my computer
but then could not figure out how to attach it to this post.

Bronnie wrote:

you're not supposed to attach pictures to posts here anyway :+). You can set
up an account with Webshots and upload the picture to that account then
invite us to come see it.

Elizabeth in Spring, Texas

I signed up on webshots and uploaded the picture of my quilt.  I hope
pasting the links below is the right way to share this picture.  If
not, please help.

Thanks,
Jerry in North Alabama
<a href="http://www.webshots.com/myaccount?action=albumInvites ">
http://www.webshots.com/myaccount?action=albumInvites
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on Webshots.  Check it out.

Bronnie wrote:

Oops! I think I posted the wrong link!  Maybe this one works.

http://community.webshots.com/user/MaleQuilter

Thanks,

Jerry in North Alabama

Very nice piecing.  I think you might want to quilt the blocks
separtely form the background.  In my opinion, this does not call for
an overall design!


Mary

Howdy!

Wow!  Great floating effect, Jerry.
Nice job.

Ragmop/Sandy -- in beautiful n.Tx.


On 10/22/06 3:19 PM, in article
1161548389.864549.264120@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com, "MaleQuilter"

WOW!! that's amazing!

I'm not much help with quilting - it's not my best bit

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Oops! I think I posted the wrong link!  Maybe this one works.

http://community.webshots.com/user/MaleQuilter

Thanks,

Jerry in North Alabama

Nice job, Jerry.  I enjoy optical illusions.  I made one of the Karen
Combs designs that others have told you about.  Mine's at
http://home-and-garden.webshots.com/photo/1090853029049602776KoyJwS
Liz

MaleQuilter wrote:

I really love your color selections and designs.  I especially liked
the one with colorful stars but being a newbie I don't know the correct
name for that design.

I'm now trying to get my first one quilted and doing lots of drawing on
the isometric graph paper for my next one.  My wife keeps telling me I
should keep it simple.

I did learn a new trick in another discussion group this week.  I was
having a problem with getting all kinds of tangles when I washed my fat
quarters.  A lady suggested clipping all of the fabric corners at a 45
degree angle prior to washing.  I did it and it worked great.

Liz MacDonald wrote:

Thank you!  The star quilt is paper pieced.  The way I learned the
technique was by watching the DVD that came with "50 Fabulous
Paper-Pieced Stars" by Carol Doak.  I just went to her website
http://www.caroldoak.com/ and see she has a new book and DVD teaching
paper piecing. Carol even checks this newsgroup occasionally.
Be warned - it's addictive!
Liz

MaleQuilter wrote:

Wow!  I like it!  As for quilting it, I'll let the experts give you their
advice.  But let me say that's darned impressive for a first quilt block!

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Carolyn in The Old Pueblo

If it ain't broke, you're not trying.  --Red Green
If it ain't broke, it ain't mine.  --Carolyn McCarty

If at first you don't succeed, switch to power tools.  --Red Green
If at first you don't succeed, get a bigger hammer.  --Carolyn McCarty

Hi Male Quilter Jerry!
Try to look at a Karen Combs book about
these 3-D blocks. You might find some
ideas about quilting yours, which is
really cool, btw.
Pat in VA/USA

MaleQuilter wrote:

Piggybacking - yep, I agree.  Really cool quilt!

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: Hi Male Quilter Jerry!
: Try to look at a Karen Combs book about
: these 3-D blocks. You might find some
: ideas about quilting yours, which is
: really cool, btw.
: Pat in VA/USA
:
: MaleQuilter wrote:
: > I signed up on webshots and uploaded the picture of my
quilt.  I hope
: > pasting the links below is the right way to share this
picture.  If
: > not, please help.
: > Thanks,
: > Jerry in North Alabama
: > :<br>
: > <a
: > http://www.webshots.com/myaccount?action=albumInvites
: > </a>
: > on Webshots.  Check it out.

Is this going to be a one block quilt? or are you going to do more.
I'll assume just the one piece, OK?
One of my favourite ways of quilting things like this is to do a
'spiral' following the edges/seams of the pieces - using your machine
foot as the distance between the lines.  So, you would start with one of
the diamonds, half an inch, say, inside one of the seams and follow that
seam along to within a bit more than half an inch of its end (trial and
error for the turning points).  Pivot and go along following the next
seam, same thing at the corner, pivot and the next and the next.  When
you come back almost to where you started, stop a bit more than half an
inch before it, pivot and then go along following half an inch inside
all of your first lines.  You just continue this until you get to the
centre of your diamond, when you stop with the same sort of distance
'left'.  It is extremely easy to do - more difficult to explain >g<
Doing that with each diamond with emphasise the diamond shape.  I don't
know whether it would help the 3-D effect any?  That would probably
depend on your choice of the three fabrics for the block.

For your background, anything which sort of tapered, away from the
central block, would give the impression of distance.  So, if you did,
say, loopy 'things' starting at about 2", make the loops reduce to
almost nothing.  Or, you can do five-pointed stars with free-motion
quilting, with loops between them.  The five-pointed star is easy to
draw freehand.  Try it on paper first to see.
.

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Best Regards
pat on the hill