Best quilting pattern for tumbling block quilt

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

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. . In message , newquilter writes

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 :

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

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.

WOW!! that's amazing!

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

Piggybacking - yep, I agree. Really cool quilt!

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 > Nice job, Jerry. I enjoy optical illusions. I made one of the Karen

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!