Quilt design question!

My free motion skills are quite limited, but I can't see why a vine/ leaf border would clash with more formal motifs in other areas. It sounds pretty to me.

TerriLee > As ever, I have spent about 3 days trying to decide how to quilt my

Hi Pat, the secret to making this work (in my opinion) is to have 'touch' points between the different areas. My Navan church quilt was done this way and if you go to look at the photos of the back - you'll see how all the separate quilt areas made a complete all-over design when it was finished.

I worked from the inner border out - nothing was marked on any of the quilt blocks until I came back to the 4 inner borders. I used pressn'seal and tissue paper to mark the motifs for each of the borders: the narrow left one was a stylized wheat sheaf, the bottom teeny one was fishes, the right widest one detailed pomegranites and the top one held 4 banners with doves (the banners read: faith, hope, love and peace).

The idea of working vines around your border would soften the area and should be easy enough to stitch free-motion using the triangles that are in place. What are the dimensions of the quilt in question?

jennellh

Pat, I immediately thought of parallel lines following the zigzag. If you'll remember mom's chemo quilt, the vines kind mooshed into the headbands and you really couldn't see either one- they all blended into a mass curvy shapes. I think you may be happier with the vines if they were 'enclosed' or framed with something so they stood out on their own??? Also, think about using various colored threads, too. Maybe some stippling in some area(s)? Either curvy or short lines with little triangles where you change direction. Other than that- I'll try to do some pondering while I mow the backyard for the first time this season. Spring is springing in MO!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Sounds lovely! A picture would help. In principle, you may do anything you can do :-) I often combine FM filler around "matching" motifs in squares and such. Just did the Starry Night quilt by outlining all the stars, then filling in the background with feathers in random directions, plus spirals where a feather wouldn't easily fit. Vines over triangles seems like a good choice! Roberta in D

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I played with combining several quilting designs on the most recent Wounded Warriors quilt with great success. The quilt went with us to a reunion and no one could resist 'aahh-ing' over it and touching the contrasting areas. So. Your answer is a certain "Yes". Go for it. There was one miniature at the Pensacola show that I wish you could have enjoyed with us. The quilt was sharp pointed triangles. The overall quilting was a wonky spiral that wobbled so that the quilting's effect made it softly moving. I know that doesn't make sense but it's the best I can do. Please do show us what you're doing when you can. Polly

I've done that, Pat! :) I can't see any reason why you couldn't do exactly as you're proposing. I think it sounds wonderful, but I'd certainly love to see a photo of what you're making. :)

Thanks TerriLee . In message , TerriLee in WA writes

Mine won't be as lovely as yours, in any way; but I see what you mean about connecting points - and I think that will be done, as the sections will be connected - sort of? It is 45" x 54". The border in question is on two sides only and is

4.5" wide. I'll plan to get a picture done tomorrow. Thanks for the 'overall' connection tip, Jenn. . In message , jennellh writes

Thanks Leslie. I will have some parallel zig-zags in the plain border, which is just outside the main zig-zag border, so I couldn't really do just the same there I don't think? There will be 'space' round each 'pattern' so there won't be a chance of confusion, I hope. I will be using threads - plain or variegated - to match all the various areas' fabrics. I will have millions of ends! I don't think this is a quilt where I can use 'pretty' fillers - I'm just aiming for a reasonably 'appropriate' set of designs. I have no overall idea, that's the trouble; but then it always is >g<

I wish my quilts could speak the same language as me!

I'll try to get a picture tomorrow and add the designs I've got so far, to one piece of it. Thanks for thinking - I'm a bit 'thought out' >g< . In message , Leslie & The Furbabies in MO. writes

Fair enough; thanks Roberta. I'll try to get DH to help me with a picture tomorrow, once it's light. I can't do feathers, unfortunately - at least not, nice regular ones that would fit in here. I tried a few 'random' wiggles and the formal tiling really doesn't lend itself to that. But, if I restrict the vines/leaves to one area, I'm hoping they will look structured enough to combine satisfactorily with the other bits and pieces. .

In message , Roberta Zollner writes

That's reassuring. Thanks, Polly. I know what you mean about the spirals. I just never seem to be able to put curvy quilting designs on a straight line quilt design. I am trying with this one - just a bit! It's difficult, though! I'll work on getting a picture tomorrow. . In message , Polly Esther writes

That's great, Sandy, thanks. I really like your quilting, so that's a boost. Picture tomorrow hopefully.

In message , Sandy writes

Right! Well I have finished the last few bits of possible quilting design, and stuck them to the quilt top. There is a picture of the quilt top 'whole'; and a picture of the section where I have stuck the quilting design pieces. The white strip under one design is to make it show up as it is on black fabric. See what you think?

Thanks very much for bothering with my silly doubts. I could always do the whole thing with SITD!

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I think it's absolutely wonderful! I really, really like your auditions. I think I like the leaves better than the straight lines in the zig zag. But for some reason, I don't think I'd put the leaf design in the white area next to the zig zag. It seems to diminish the other leaves. But maybe you could use that leaf in a triangle elsewhere to repeat the pattern again. Oh my Pat! This is just lovely, and mind boggling! Your piecing is perfect! I love the fabrics! I'm using lots of exclaimation marks...I was going to remove some, but you deserve them all!!!!! Well done!

How splendid! The colors are gorgeous, and IMO all your quilting ideas are spot on. Except for the small black triangles right at the edge -I'd do those in the triangle spirals too. Roberta in D

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OH, Pat! I LOVE the orange peel look in the white squares- and all the other motifs, too. I hope you are going to continue the orange peel into the triangles next to it? All of them! Lovely and unifying. The off center approach to the setting is really dynamite! I'm thrilled it worked out so well!!! Great work!!!

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

Pat, I think you're brilliant! Those leafy vines *do* absolutely fit -- they can be loosely "grouped" with the motif to the upper right in the photo. That one is more formal, granted, but it does have a sort of leaf "flavor" to it. :)

Or in the leaf trio like the white triangles in the border above.

Very nicely done!

marcella