I adore hand quilting, I can’t even begin to tell you how much. I think in my heart of hearts I’m a wholecloth quilter, slap some fabric together and off you go.
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On the other hand, large expanses of fabric make life easy for the quilter, you can do what you want without needing to take the pieced design into consideration.
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This is my current selection of ideas, but I can’t seem to make anything concrete out of them.
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I like the idea of quilting the squares heavily to make the pinwheels stand out a bit more, but I was secretly hoping to get a bit of symbolism quilted into it as well, which might be difficult!
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It is perfectly possible that I have more than one quilt’s worth of quilting ideas. (I really like the idea of quilting in perle cottons, but not sure how it would work with this one.)
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What do you think? Does anyone have any good suggestions or observations?
I like the heavy squares one – although actually they’re all nice. You know what I’d love to do, but would work better on a plain quilt I think… A map, like these: http://www.hapticlab.com/ but I’m not sure if I’d ever get it done… Hmm, is it for your little boy? Could you sneak in a word or phrase? Or the alphabet?
I love those map quilts, I had to email the link to my dad to say ‘I’m not going to buy you one, but I would if I could!’