Today is the last day of spring break and I celebrated by getting one last quilt basted and ready to go. Bernie is back in the shop for some sort of warranty repair on the door. When I took her in last week they said something was broken on the door and they would order a part. I was not aware of any problem with the door, but who am I to argue with the experts? So my dear husband dropped her off while I was away for my weekend with Mom and I can pick her up on Tuesday.
Since I was unable to actually start the quilting, I decided to audition a couple of quilting patterns instead. I tried Glad Press'n Seal and it worked great. It clung to the quilt and let me try out different designs. I was planning to do some sort of swirl in each pinwheel, but was having trouble transitioning from one block to the next. When I had Kurt look at it, he saw the broken dish block instead of the pinwheel and suggested using the same triangle design I have been using recently. He feels that the linear design of the quilt calls for an angular quilting design. I kind of liked the idea of doing a swirl in each of the blocks. I thought the curves contrasted nicely with the straight lines of the quilt blocks. The third option is straight line stitching in the ditch. Any votes?
Hi Angela,
ReplyDeleteI used to work for the school system, so I know how it feels when the vacation is over. Also, I have tried the Press and Seal for both quilting and machine embroidery. It also works well as a hopefully subtle bib.
I was tagged by a runner, so I hope you don't mind if I pass it on. It's 7 weird or random things about yourself. You can see the rules on my blog:
http://wraggedypatches.blogspot.com/ Thank you, Candace
Regarding the choice of quilting:
ReplyDeleteI saw a quilt once that had such a COOL optical illusion of being pieced with curves SIMPLY because the quilting was done with curves. The pieces were actually just triangles and squares.
So my vote: A curved quilt pattern-----an illusion of "added curved difficulty" could be the result :0)