What quilting pattern?
I am trying to decide what quilting I should do on my bug quilt. IN the past I have outlined the figures and stitched in the ditch, but I want to do something different. Can you give me any suggestions? The quilt is found at http://www.appliquequiltdesigns.com/Baby-Bugs-Galore.html
Will you be quilting your top by hand or machine?
The answer to that would also influence your choice of batting , which in turn would dictate how dense you’d need to quilt your top and that would also influence the quilt design for your top.
If you are machine quilting and working with a quilt batting like warm & natural or warm & white, you can quilt up to 10″ appart, so you don’t need to do as much quilting.
Just briefly looking at the design I’d stitch around each individual design first (this would bring out the design more)and then I’d stitch grass and little flowers in the horizontal rectangles, larger flowers & butterflies in the other spaces (squares). To fill empty spaces on the quilt I would stitch in a loopty loop way (simulating a bee in flight).
Here’s a link to a video with free-motion stitched large flowers that you can easily stitch in the large square areas of your quilt and in the section of the diamonds you can see how you easily can adapt the loops to make a “bee in flight” stitch.
Hope this helps.
Leaves Galore Demo Part 2_0001.wmv
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