Here we go again ... <G>

I've just finished making the quilt top from a Sharyn Craig class (Northwind blocks), and once again I'm puzzling over what sort(s) of quilting motif(s) to use when I quilt it. :S I love to quilt (machine or hand), but I really hate having to decide *how* to quilt! Any suggestions? The top can be seen at the bottom of .

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Sandy
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Can't help you with the quilting, but that sure is pretty.

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maryd

Beautiful, Sandy! Just gorgeous!

I adore feather quilting- I see a circular feather wreath over top of each grouping of triangles and a 'branch' of feather kinda curved thru the other areas and then a line of feathers with a wavy spine around the outer edges.

Yep, I love those feathers!

Leslie, Missy & The Furbabies in MO.

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Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

feathers or orange peel or ripply concentric circles....

Kellie

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Kellie J Berger

Whenever I see "wind" as part of the design title, I think of quilting in big swirly swooshes and spirals--something to counteract the rigidity of the triangles.

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Betty Monahan

Yes, Betty, I also like to contrast angles and curves -- thanks!

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Sandy

I was thinking that feathers might be too formal for this quilt, but I'm glad to see that you don't agree -- I *love* feathers! :) Thanks, Kellie!

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Sandy

Thanks, Mary! :)

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Sandy

Thanks, Leslie.

We must be some sort of kindred spirits in that regard, Leslie -- I also just adore feathers. I just thought that feathers might be too formal for this particular quilt, but I'm very happily going to rethink that concept. :) Thanks! :D

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Sandy

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Taria

I just love this quilt top, I would do in the ditch and on the cream or is it white I would do swirls with a nice color thread just a suggestion. enjoy your quilting!!!

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susanm

It's beautiful, Sandy; really lovely. I especially love the border - new idea to me. However, I can't help with a quilting design. Sorry. . In message , Sandy writes

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Patti

If it were mine (wish it were!), I'd do a square spiral starting in the center of each color, lines a quarter inch apart, and a swirly feather plume starting from the edge of the center square all around the surrounding triangles. Fill in the half squares around the edge with feathers to match. Of course, I like feathers a whole lot and you may not feel the same :-) I'd do the border in some sort of leafy vine. Roberta in D

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Roberta Zollner

I love feathers and have used them to quilt the last handbag I made. Thats not a formal bag,just Batik!! Feathers would look soft and curvy.

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Estelle Gallagher

I think they're only 'formal' if they are done in strict circles or heart shapes etc. If they just 'wander around', I'm sure they would look free-er. On the other hand, insofar as the quilt itself is regular blocks, which are symmetrical etc, there is formality there. I never think of feathers, because I can't do them >gg< . In message , Sandy writes

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Patti

Sandy: Isn't this the project you showed us a while ago, but in early stages? I am amazed at how your wonderful border treatment pulls together that scrappy collection of blocks.

As to the quilting, I have two ideas. One is to copy that gentle zig zag you have in the border. Work that in rows going diagonally across the quilt. You could space two lines exactly as the border is spaced, then space the next pair a bit further away. Another idea is to use the name of the blocks, Northwind, to inform the quilting design. Use the swirly look one sees on wintry type art ... where Jack Frost or Old Man Winter is blowing cold air across the sky. Have that come out of the north corner and swirl every which way over the blocks.

HTH.

PAT in VA/USA

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Pat in Virginia

Replied privately. :)

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Sandy

I do love feathers -- thanks for the reassurance that they needn't look too formal, Pat. :)

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Sandy

Thanks for the suggestion, Roberta -- I'm not sure I understand where the spirals stop and the feather plume starts in your idea?

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Sandy

Thanks, Pat. :) No worries -- I always have trouble with this part, though I do love to do the quilting.

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Sandy

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