This quilt was made by Sue in gorgeous Liberty fabrics.
I quilted this quilt about a year ago, but forgot I had
taken photos. I found them late last
year.
Sue asked for more modern quilting and showed me some photos
for inspiration. But as the sizes of the
rings on her quilt were different from the photos I needed to work out a design that worked
best for her quilt.
I took a number of photos while the quilt was on the machine
as I was trying to work out how I wanted to quilt the plain fabric in the
centre of the rings and in the melons.
What I didn’t like I unpicked.
This photo show how I originally thought I would place the
arcs inside the ring. I didn’t like this
arrangement as I felt the centre area was too small for the diagonal straight
lines I planned to quilt. I was also
playing with the melons. I didn’t like
this design either as it looked like teeth to me. So I unpicked all of this.
This photos shows that I made the centre area larger, but
now I felt it was boring and too big. I
unpicked this. I had settled on the melon design as can be seen in this
picture.
This photos shows the final design for the centre that I
really liked. I felt the row of pebbles gave it more interest that the design
in the previous photo. The design in the
melon was an early reject which was later unpicked.
You can see in this photo the two potential designs side by
side. I know it comes down to
preferences, but I much preferred the one on the left.
When I was quilting the diagonal straight lines in the
centre I would start from the middle and work out to one side, then go back and
do the other side. This allowed me to
get the lines at the correct angle if I did the longer lines first. I also alternated the direction of the lines
to create more interest.
Sue brought me a plain backing fabric so the quilting shows
beautifully.
