Having been given a jelly roll and a quilting book for Christmas 2010, there is no excuse not to get on with quiltmaking.

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Monday 9 April 2012

Daisy Chains and Decisions

The weather being too vile for words today (yes, I know, I know, we need the rain - but really!), I knuckled down to finishing quilting the inner and outer borders on Mum's Quilt.


Well - all but a short section where I ran out of bobbin thread.


All the while I've been quilting, I've been thinking about what to put in the white triangles by the nine patch blocks - I've thought about a spray of leaves; big sister Helen suggested a tendril with a daisy growing from the sashing daisy chains.

Hmm hmm.

Then I changed my mind totally, and have done some echoing of the blocks to infill.






But I've stopped at two, in case I have a change of heart...

9 comments:

  1. I like that, it gives a nice geometric counterpoint to the swirls and flowers. It definitely was a sewing day yesterday, though I'm afraid I didn't get any done!

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    1. Slightly worried about the different quilting densities, Ali - but I do like the look of it.

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  2. I think the echoing works brilliantly. As Sewali says it balances the flowers and stems.

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    1. Thanks, Sue. I'm thinking of stippling in the cream skinny border to finish off - but might change my mind on that yet!

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  3. Send your unpicker to me so that you can't use it! The echo quilting looks fantastic, don't even consider taking it out! Do more :}

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    1. Thanks, Bilbo - showed it to mum yesterday and she said pretty much the same thing, so I'm happy now.

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    2. Oh, thank Crunchy for that .....

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