(Linking up to WIP Wednesday today :-)
Inspiration struck me, and I grabbed it by the neck and wrung a quiltbacking for the Pluses Galore Quilt out of it :-) I came up with this echo pattern of the plus theme, using a leftover block I had made by accident.
Inspiration struck me, and I grabbed it by the neck and wrung a quiltbacking for the Pluses Galore Quilt out of it :-) I came up with this echo pattern of the plus theme, using a leftover block I had made by accident.
So here you have the finished back...
... and the finished front. Right now it's about 71"x85".
Here it is pin basted and ready for quilting.
Have you noticed the odd thing about it? I basted it with the backing face up. Simple reason for this: I had no clue how to quilt it based on the front, but the back inspired me to do echo quilting around the plus shape!
Here is what the echo quilting looked like. Note the tense... Yup, I hated it. But I kept going. Don't quilt with a deadline, it sucks! The quilting did not grow on me.
Yes, you guessed it. I'm undoing it all and have switched to mussel shell quilting. This feels right. I'm quilting it from the front now. Just make taking out the pins a bit trickier... My guess is that I'm about 2/3 to 3/4 done. Hard to tell under my 33 year-old Singer :-) everything is bunched up right now...
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3 comments:
I think you are right ripping out the echo quilting, the mussel shell quilting is much better.
Allthough your top is beautiful, I think your back is amazing.
Sorry to hear that unpicking is necessary, but it looks like it will be a stunning finish when you get there!
How frustrating to remove the quilting, but I love the new design you chose!
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