This is where I started today.... the bottom 'border' of the quilt... with no idea how to quilt it... I finally posted my question ( and pic) onto a couple of quilting FB groups that I belong to..
lots of ideas came in from all over ( including from the owner of the Hen House - I didn't know she belonged to that group) mainly shells or wavy and lots of pebbles. I didn't really want to do the whole thing in pebbles - they can get boring pretty quick and I didn't want shells because I'm putting them in the side borders and I wasn't looking to do wavy because that's how I did the water.
Finally someone posted a drawing of a meandering that I thought might work. Then it hit me... I did pebbles down close to the edges of the black frame bottoms and then switched to the meandering - while 'hiding' in the sandpiper that I orginally wanted to applique' on, a beachball and a bottle with a message in it - ( the bottle was an idea from another quilter and I LOVED it). All I had to do was go online and find a drawing or picture that I could use - easy peasy.
Once that was done, I took the quilt off the frame and turned it so that the top and bottom edges are now the side edges. That way, I can work on the border in one fell sweep and not have to keep turning the quilt and the bars to quilt the next section.
The side borders are 12" wide (EACH)... REALLY wide but that's what I needed to get it to measure close to it's length of 90". I'm dividing them into three sections that will run from top to bottom. Each section has a set of double lines separating it from the next one. The inside section was sected again only this time going across so that I have 'boxes' into which I'm stitching the outlines of seashells that I used a stencil and a pounce pad to mark out ( except for the bottom one that I did free hand - doesn't look much like a clam shell, you'll just have to take my word for it).
The middle section has feathers with squared off ends so that they look a little more like palm fronds and the outer section is getting a piano key, but it's a row of stitching, 1/4"space then another row of stitching then 2" spacing and repeating this til the end. It's supposed to look something like the wooden chair that's in the quilt body.
I'm quite tickled on how it's coming out and I'm loving my MagnaGlide bobbins and Glide threads... and apparently Mo'e does, too. I've had no major tension problems which is sooooo nice!!.
Ok, I think I'm going to call it THE END here and go back to working on that outside section of the border... then I can start fresh on the other one tomorrow :)... and hopefully have it labeled and bound before bedtime tomorrow night. We'll see what my back has to say about it :(
TTYL
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