I am cruising along with the quilting on the quilt from my last post. I did straight lines in the outside black border for simplicity. I think it makes it look more like a frame around the quilt.
Then I started quilting in all of the black rectangles. I started with an echoed squiggle design. I started it corner to corner so that I could work easily into the next rectangle diagonally.
Then I did a line of echoed petals also working from a corner and going diagonally.
Then I worked with a diagonal line of arcs. For some of them, I switched direction in the center, but that seemed like too much work, so I changed to all the arcs going one direction. Each one ended in the diagonally opposite corner so that I didn't have to break thread.
The repeating factor in each of these is the curve in the lines. I love using curvy quilting lines when the elements of the quilt are decidedly "square." I just think it is a nice contrast.
Finally in the hand dyed border I put pebbles in a row all around the quilt. There are flowers in the corner stones, but I forgot to take photos of those.
I plan to do a minimalistic quilting design in each of the hand dyed rectangles. The thing is that I have to figure it out first. So perhaps I will grab my "doodle pad" (Amazon has it listed as an LCD Writing Tablet. It was less than $10. It erases with a simple button push. So I can try again and again. The only downfall is that once erased it is gone forever. When I use paper, the designs remain until I decide to throw them away.
Here is what I am considering for those rectangles.
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You can see the little "trash can" erase button here. |
Until Next Time,
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