My excuse is that I'm waiting for "Marie" ( my newer Janome) to come back from being cleaned; the truth is, I don't know how I want to quilt it.
Which brings me to today's 'hard stuff'.... how to quilt my son's quilt. Here's what I have so far... but none of it is set in stone - I'm still playing with ideas I'm finding online and from the papers we received from Sue Patten last month.
this is block one (above)... there are five of these
block two (on the right) only has four blocks, thank goodness....
I'm pretty sure that I want to do feathers on the borders, so I don't want to fill up the majority of the blocks with feathers, too... I'm trying to make it more masculine. And I don't want it covered in stitching... I want it a LITTLE 'fluffy'. Right now, I'm thinking that I want to change thread colors instead of using just one ... use chocolate brown for the brown and the black and then use ecru for the creamier parts.
I think tomorrow I'll put fabric and batting onto Mo'e to practice with...will try sketching 3" strips and filling them to see what I do and don't like... what I'm comfortable with doing and with what just isn't going to happen this month.
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE what you're planning here! the upper pic quilting gives the blocks even more dimension and make them look like they're projecting upwards. These are so cool!
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure how many of those I'll actually use.... that's one of the reasons I'm doing the practice piece... to see how they look and how easy they are for me to do.
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