focus? Medallion quilts

I started one a long time ago too. I had appliquéd dragonflies in the center block. Actually, it started as a do-it-yourself round robin from Pat Sloan's former group. Wonder what I did with that thing....it needs appliquéd flowers in the last big border.

My first quilt was a medallion. I love them.

I now wholecloth in the Welsh tradition, so I suppose that counts, too.

I just love that centre with all the stuff going round. It (imo) looks lovely on a bed, or, indeed on a wall.

The borders can be a B mind, to get just right. But, OH SO satisfying when they line up.

Nel (Gadget Queen)

I like medallions, because it's a good way to use a big square piece that's too small for very much else, without making a lot more of the same. My only problem is a slight aversion to square quilts. (Beds are usually oblong! And I don't have that much wall space left.) So I experiment a lot with ways to make extra rows of blocks look like they belong there :-)

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Another option is to have two square medallions separated by one or more of the borders, then surround the pair with the outer borders - if that makes any sense. I could sketch it easily, but putting it into words is harder.

Lizzy

Roberta, try starting with a rectangle instead - my most favourite idea for the future is an oval mariner's Compass, within a rectangle as the centrepiece. Then the blocks in rows around. Ginny Beyer's out of print design book gives a massive amount of design help for medallion quilts. I have done a miniature medallion - that was fun. .

In message , Roberta writes

The first quilts I made were medallions. I did them on the serger by using rectangular panels and adding borders around them. Layered them, used a basting gun to tack them. Then quilted using decorative machine stitching on the seams. Can't remember how I finished the edges. But I did a whole batch of them one year for Christmas. They have been well used as I recall. (The panels I used were either some that were prints of some of the "Small Quilts" designs. Some I used 2 pillow panels.)

Pati, in Phx.