Late last night I put the finishing touch on a WH. When I woke this morning and looked at it, I decided it still needs more work.
Question - The WH is all done in machine quilting, diagonal wavy triple lines at 3" intervals. I'm now thinking I'd like to add leaves in these open spaces. Would it be okay to do the leaves in hand quilting? The quilt police will never see this, but I'm wondering if the results would look odd?
WOO HOOO!
yes you can and no it won't - many quilters do this - so come on over and join the "gang" ;-)
I think it's a wonderful idea, Bonnie. Don't know if judges at a quilt show would get a bee in their bonnet about it or if you care. Sounds very pretty and 'just what you need'. Polly
Thanks, all I needed was a little nudge!!!
Since my quilts will never be entered in any type of competition I guess I'll do what my head tells me is right. Thanks for the nod :-)
Go right ahead! Won't look odd at all. Roberta in D
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Pat, my quilts will never be in any competition. I do them for my own pleasure and the thought of competition would take all my pleasure away.
I have customers do this all the time. I'll do some basic machine quilting to stabilize the quilt, which gives them lots of time to do the hand quilting while using the quilt.
Howdy!
Extra points for handquilting.
Ragmop/Sandy
Beautiful quilt!!! Thanks for sharing. I love the double wedding ring pattern but have never made one. I don't even think it is in my future...........
Laurie G. in CA
if you are worried how the quilting will look, take a piece of plastic/velum/something seethru and draw your leaves on it and overlay to see what you think. I have done handquilting with machine quilting and it was fine. Heck for DS's utility quilt i gave up handquilting about a third of the way thru and sent it to Jan to long arm the rest lol no show entries for me either
Kellie
Most of my quilts (of all sizes) have both machine and hand quilting in them. Go for it!
Anne > Late last night I put the finishing touch on a WH. When I woke this morning
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