So, blogger tells me that there are over 50 of you who read these posts when I put them out - wow! thanks! And now I need your help.
A couple months ago, I finished this cute little snap sack top and I have it all basted up and ready for quilting. I even stitched in the ditch between the blocks and the border, but now I am stuck. Gol' darn stuck. I have been perusing through the designs over at Leah Day's blog, and like several of them, but just can't decide what to do. I want something that will be more on the minimal side than on the heavily quilted side. I am not good with feathers, so can't even contemplate them, but I am fairly adventurous outside of that. I am open to one design in the blocks and another in the border or something that goes all over.
Please leave me a comment with your thoughts! Oh, and by the way, the top is only about 12 x 20, it's a little sucker and I will be quilting it on my Janome 6600. And I tell you what, just to sweeten the pot a little, how about I pick out a little fabric to send the person who gives me the idea that I wind up quilting? So when you leave me a comment, let me know your favorite color or fabric type (batik/oriental/etc) so I can pick out something you like!
A couple months ago, I finished this cute little snap sack top and I have it all basted up and ready for quilting. I even stitched in the ditch between the blocks and the border, but now I am stuck. Gol' darn stuck. I have been perusing through the designs over at Leah Day's blog, and like several of them, but just can't decide what to do. I want something that will be more on the minimal side than on the heavily quilted side. I am not good with feathers, so can't even contemplate them, but I am fairly adventurous outside of that. I am open to one design in the blocks and another in the border or something that goes all over.
Please leave me a comment with your thoughts! Oh, and by the way, the top is only about 12 x 20, it's a little sucker and I will be quilting it on my Janome 6600. And I tell you what, just to sweeten the pot a little, how about I pick out a little fabric to send the person who gives me the idea that I wind up quilting? So when you leave me a comment, let me know your favorite color or fabric type (batik/oriental/etc) so I can pick out something you like!
Comments
Since this is small, it might be a perfect piece to practice some of those options that you like from Leah's site but just make them "looser" in design. You could use 12 different ones for the blocks and then a feather design for the border. Or, find two that you like and alternate in the blocks.
The batiks are beautiful and I've started collecting a variety to make a quilt.
Liz
1. Free motion spirals inside the small squares
2. A diagonal grid in the green background--marking the lines with masking tape and sewing with a walking foot makes it easy to quilt perfectly straight and evenly spaced lines
3. One of Leah's paisleys in the border--maybe Moon Paisley or Snake Paisley. I did something similar in this small doll quilt.
Barbara