Thanks to all for the advice on batting for my first quilts for my twin daughters. I got a lot of input from different sources and am going to try wool. Meanwhile I spend the snow blizzard here in Pennsylvania piecing together my first crazy blocks. My first block was really horrible, but I got in a groove and the next 5 look beautiful. Yes I am sort of doing this my own way, I found a "crazy block pattern" which seems contradictory, but I figure I need all the help I can get. I haven't figured out the alternating solid blocks yet, but am trying to figure out how to do the actual quilting (by machine). I don't think I am skilled enough to just follow the lines in a shadow pattern. I found something call sashiko which looks simple and continuous. I want to keep the quilting very simple. Does the quilting really look okay if different on the alternating blocks? I like the idea of doing the embroidery after the quilts are quilted, but that seems a little bulky to manage. I am only going to do mostly embroidery and cross stitch, and a touch of embelleshment with ribbons and lace from the girls' little girl dresses. Can I quilt through these crazy blocks in a very simple geometric pattern (like the sachiko) and should I use invisible? thread. When this is done I will post pictures. Thanks all.
------------------------------------- Karin
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