This is a quilt I am making for a charity auction.....probably the only time someone will be willing to buy something I made! I have some stray stitching to do and then I have to quilt it. I will probably screw it up. Quilting stitches do not talk to me. I loved playing with the Tyvek and of course I had to use some of the fabrics I dyed.
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What a gorgeous piece. I can see why you are having fear of quilting. Does it really need to be quilted? could you just add a few tiny beads here and there that would accomplish the same thing. Or as my advisor tells me -- baby steps. First go in and turn on the machine; next day do one line of stitching, etc. etc.
Lorraine
Sherryl, this is beautiful! What a gift you have for evoking movement and emotion. I have found that machine quilting is practice, practice, practice, so maybe you should try some stitches on a sample sandwich first. Good luck!
Kit Robinson
what the others said, plus this: what about echoing/repeating some of the lovely curvy ribbon lines elsewhere?
you could take your photo, and print copies and doodle on those to decide on quilting patterns -- saves picking stitches, and starts the muscle memory.
looks wonderful -- good luck!
Thanks all for the wonderful comments. I think I will print out some photos and draw on them to see what I can come up with that I think I can do without ruining it. I can echo quilt and I can do some basic stippling and meandering. I cannot do "designs". I will also do some practice on a sandwich.
I was just going to say the same, do you need to quilt it as its beautiful, l am a textile artist and teacher and l don't quilt but l do quilt art which sounds wrong but in yours if l did any machining i would just do lines across but wide apart and maybe do it in a transparent thread.
It is beautifll and quilt art some times only wants a little stitching and some a lot but yours just a little,
Lovely! The blue ribbons make it dance. Quilting stitches don't talk to me either...I never know how to go about making the quilting ADD to the piece.
Thanks . I finally finished the quilting and I did not screw the thing up...However, I will never win any awards for the quilting part!!! The only way quilting is going to add anything to my pieces is if some professional does it for me.
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