Quilt Designs

I would say that the first thing you would want to do is to 'regularise' the black patterning in the background - by that I mean make all the lines of the pattern a regular width. The variations in thickness would, in my opinion, be a nightmare to attempt - and wouldn't really enhance the quilt particularly. The rest of the quilt would not be hugely difficult to do. One way of 'simplifying' a drawing of any kind is to trace it. In this case, if you traced from a picture printed on an A4 sheet, and then enlarged - would have to be in sections eventually - at a print shop, your drawn lines would also be enlarged in width. You might find then that one of the commercially available rolls of fused, bias ribbon would be just the right width (and, if not quite precisely the same, they could still be used).

This way, you could make up your design by pressing the fused ribbon onto the background, following your drawn pattern.

As to software? Sorry, no help from this direction >g< . In message , Kyuss writes

The simplest way would be to cheat just a bit: find some fabric with swirly symmetrical designs that resembles that background. You'll want a pretty large scale, so start in shops that sell curtain fabric. When you find one, draft the heart/triangle design so it fits well onto the printed fabric and reveals interesting bits of the pattern. Then trace your paper pattern onto the heart fabric, all in one piece, and applique Hawaiian style around the inside of the heart. Then add the darker outer fabric and applique the rest. Roberta in D

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I had to smile! Trust me to plunge straight in with 'difficult' >g< Didn't even stop to think of alternatives! Well done, Roberta. . In message , Roberta Zollner writes