I didn't intend to put a border on this one...........
but the piece was so small I thought I would look through my fabrics and if I found something I liked I would put on a border. If I didn't find anything I wouldn't. Well I found 2 fabrics that I think work very well with it. It is now about 37" x 47". It looks like a tapestry now. The left side of the border had the most light on it and is the most accurate color.
I had 2 requests to show the quilting on a Strips 'n Curves quilt. This is the only finished one that I still own. I liked the quilting that was similar to this on some of the quilts in the first book. I consider my quilting casual, each wavy line has its own personality. I did ditch quilt all of the seam lines before I did the wavy line stitching.
On this block you can see that I loosely quilted the outline of the pattern in the fabric of the big print.
I don't like my quilts over-quilted. I like them soft and I like the fabrics to be showcased so I don't do a lot of overall quilting that doesn't relate to the quilt pattern. The exception to this is the bed quilts and lap quilts that are made from a simple pattern. I do all over meandering or loop de loop, or meandering with leaves or hearts on them. On my small wallhangings I do more straight line quilting with decorative threads. Choosing the quilting design is still the hardest part of the quilt for me.
but the piece was so small I thought I would look through my fabrics and if I found something I liked I would put on a border. If I didn't find anything I wouldn't. Well I found 2 fabrics that I think work very well with it. It is now about 37" x 47". It looks like a tapestry now. The left side of the border had the most light on it and is the most accurate color.
I had 2 requests to show the quilting on a Strips 'n Curves quilt. This is the only finished one that I still own. I liked the quilting that was similar to this on some of the quilts in the first book. I consider my quilting casual, each wavy line has its own personality. I did ditch quilt all of the seam lines before I did the wavy line stitching.On this block you can see that I loosely quilted the outline of the pattern in the fabric of the big print.I don't like my quilts over-quilted. I like them soft and I like the fabrics to be showcased so I don't do a lot of overall quilting that doesn't relate to the quilt pattern. The exception to this is the bed quilts and lap quilts that are made from a simple pattern. I do all over meandering or loop de loop, or meandering with leaves or hearts on them. On my small wallhangings I do more straight line quilting with decorative threads. Choosing the quilting design is still the hardest part of the quilt for me.**************
Sunday was my free day on my day of the week schedule to do what ever I wanted to do. Since the basket quilt was on Monday and the top is done, it moves to Thursday for basting day. I need to put a new project on Monday but I am teaching an all day finishing class so I'll do the choosing when I get home.
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I sewed the binding on the queen size TAW quilt that I quilted recently. It took over an hour to sew the binding on by machine. Now I have at least 6 hours of hand sewing. I'll try not to complain all week about it.