WIP - need help

if there is sky, how bout some wind? thru the clouds, ok, i'm assuming there is sky with clouds already. swirly wind or even a puffy face of the wind blowing the wind out of his mouth. if there are trees, add more branches/leaves to them or quilt the leaves in if its just green. ok, that sounds sorta weird but i hope ya get it, lol. got a pix of it? it really helps to see what needs doing to think up stuff. cheers, jeanne

thanks Jeanne I have pictures of it on page 2 of my webshots if you want to take a peak.

wow, that looks great. now i'm trying to get my head round how fur could be quilted. i'd for sure go round the body, accent the ears and eyes and teeth as well. add some for their warm breath coming out in the cool night air? maybe along the branches but also add some more quilted branches as well. hmmmmm, along the tree line. inside the trees to texture them. hmmm. how bout some bats in the sky? i just thot bats fit the 'darkness' of the pix somehow, lol. still pondering. jeanne

You could, first of all, outline quilt the wolves; then find a filler pattern that you can manage to do the fur. Five-pointed stars are very easy to do as continuous quilting, so you could quilt them in the sky, with gentle wavy lines between them. I would quilt the printed pattern in the border of the panel. Then for the succession of outer borders, you could quilt some simple pattern that you could do with a walking foot. You could repeat the flying gees motif of the panel - using two borders at a time? (Flying Geese as a quilting pattern is great - you can quilt it continuously by going all the way along/round up one side, and back down the other to complete all the triangles). I think I saw that there were seven narrow borders, so if you did three 'skeins' of geese - alternating their direction - you would need some other pattern for the outer border. Try looking in

and find the link to "Borders". You could use another of the piecing patterns shown there as the quilting design. I use piecing patterns as quilting designs quite often. They work beautifully. . In message , Fran writes

Fran, I'd outline quilt the wolf and then also outline those flying geese in the first border. But for the outer borders, what about quilting in some large-ish trees -- a sort of forest for the wolves to inhabit? You could do a combination of pines with fun-to-do prickly branches and deciduous trees. You could even do another row of flying geese in one or two of the borders, as a sort of accent to the first ones.

thanks all for replying I have so many new ideas going through my head now that I want to get started. Thanks again for all the advise.

Oh, I love the idea of trees. I must try to find something of mine for which that would work. I have nothing like this, but I bet trees could work in many situations. Thanks Sandy! . In message , Sandy writes

tagg'n on. clever you, Sandy. big trees is/are? perfect, i reckon. jeanne

You're welcome, Pat! The reason it occurred to me was that I did a tree (a *big* one) on a quilt once, and I've kind of kept the idea in the back of my mind since then.

you betcha. the element of suprise unless there is a 'bear in the woods' busy already. :) oops, thats a different tale. :) jeanne

Sandy do you have any patterns or no where I could get some for doing trees. have never done this before and they sound like a fabulous idea. Thank you for the ideas.

Uh, unfortunately, I really don't! However, I think there may be some in Kathy Sandbach's machine quilting books. I'm not in my sewing room right now, or I'd look -- but your library should be able to get them for you, if you'd like to look before you buy (if you buy ). :)

i'm googling images 'fir tree'.

95 thousand results, thats a lot for images. there has to be something there to spark your imagination. i like the tall ones, long trunk and lots of branches at the top. tho maybe shorter ones will look better on that, hard for me to be sure. you've got it there in your hot little hands, you'll know better than i. hope that helps. just think outline of the branches, basic xmas tree shape. should be easily do-able in free motion. just play and have fun. jeanne