 I was very happy to get back to quilting yesterday and tackled all of the gold quilting. There were only 3 areas and I really struggled with quilting plans. My friend, Brenda, visited Monday and she helped me devise this simple motif for the center. I'm really struggling to keep the quilting from being too dense because this is definitely a bed quilt.  I did some simple quilting in the star points and repeated a circle motif in the diamonds. It's just enough quilting.  Something similar in the triangles on the outside border. Now I just have to do 2 background areas with some sort of filler. One of the areas is the top edge of these triangles all the way to the edge of the quilt. My nature is to do a really dense filler and I've got to talk myself away from that. I think I will have this done by Friday and can them tackle some fun and fast veterans quilts.  Here are the cactus fabrics that I bought to make some placemats as a remembrance of our trip. I also have 2 other sets of gift placemats that I need to make. I think that while I'm quilting veterans quilts I'm going to try to make some placemat "tops" and get them ready for quilting in a week or so.  I also got a really cool postcards in the mail from Nancy S. Isn't it cute?
Today is dyeing day and I might have some quilting time in the evening.
Gene Black
2/8/2024 06:56:30 am
My default quilting is dense. But I like my bed quilts densely quilted, so for me it is okay. However, I do try to do less dense quilting on some quilts.
Gene
2/8/2024 06:57:56 am
check your moderation folder. 2/8/2024 07:53:18 am
Perfect quilting, it will be lovely as well as comfy with those quilting designs.
Mary Anne
2/8/2024 01:46:26 pm
I like the cactus fabrics you found. I immediately thought they'd look good fussy cut onto postcards (if you have enough leftover that is).
patty
2/9/2024 08:14:38 am
The quilting looks so good on the sunset quilt. The cactus fabric is so fun and will make great placemats. I didn't even look for regional fabric when I was out in California. We just went to a couple different JoAnn's. I didn't even look to see where the closest quilt shop was in LA. I can imagine it would be at least a two hour trip to and from with all the traffic in that place! Comments are closed.
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I'm Vicki Welsh and I've been making things as long as I can remember. I used to be a garment maker but transitioned to quilts about 20 years ago. Currently I'm into fabric dyeing, quilting, Zentangle, fabric postcards, fused glass and mosaic. I document my adventures here. Categories
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