As ever, I have spent about 3 days trying to decide how to quilt my current piece. I might well have to go the whole hog, eventually, and ask you to look at a picture and help from there. However, for the moment, I wonder if I could ask opinions: has anyone combined relatively formal motifs in some repeated areas, with free motion vines/leaves etc in other, but different areas? This quilt can easily be divided into areas and shapes.
I do not mark my quilts; so the designs have got to be quiltable around a freezer-paper template (or through Press 'n' Seal); or just free-motion. I think I can do leaves and things using FM; but I don't know what a combination would look like? So far I have got Snowflakes in large squares; orange peel in the numerous small triangles; multiple zig-zags in a plain border; 8-pointed stars in the small squares; spiral triangles in numerous border triangles.
My problem lies with the first, inner border which is pieced with triangles to make zig-zags. I could see it with vines etc *if* that would be OK with the rest?
I am auditioning any designs I think of by drawing them on Press 'n' Seal and sticking the pieces onto the quilt - so I can fairly easily try out the combination - if you think it would work. It is a fairly important quilt, and I though I had it all worked out! but I haven't.
I'd be most grateful to hear if anyone has thoughts on this. Thanks very much.