I considered my Circle Lord swirls, baptist fan or even clamshell templates. I thought about one of the zillions of pantographs. I'm stuck.
Do you have an idea? PLEASE PLEASE let me a comment with an idea,
This is a Bonnie Hunter pattern called Strip Twist.
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I have a finished top in that same pattern of Bonnie's, so I'll be watching the comments! I had thought about swirls or curves to balance the strong angles.
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This would be great with any of the 8 line patterns from Pam Clarke (www.homestitches.com). I wish I could find any videos on her site but there are no free ones. There are a few examples on webshots of quilts quilted with her style. This isn't very specific but perhaps it will help.
Lovely quilt. Great colors, design & fabrics.
Are you familiar with: http://freemotionquilting.blogspot.com I'd recommend picking a few different free hand machine quilting designs from this site, and try a few different ones in your diamonds. Great opportunity to build on your skill. I'm currently doing this with a few quilts. Great fun!
Otherwise, I'd probably pick a simple meandering with stars (very easy). Somehow I think of stars with your diamonds too!
SewCalGal
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I think that any all-over pattern will look great. I always love the Baptist Fan on a nice scrappy quilt like this one.
I plan on doing baptist fan on mine, if I ever get the boarder on. lol.
I truly think that just about any all over pano would work because the pattern is already busy.
I have no idea what pattern to use to quilt it, but wanted to say it sure is a pretty quilt.
Oh this is gorgeous. I am sure not one to ask advice on quilting but love your work. I hope one day that I will be able to answer a question like this. I am a wanna be! But you know what? I need to sit down and sew don't I? I sure won't learn unless I practice.
Lovely Quilt!! I would think some circles or curves would look great since you have so many straight lines. Good luck with it.
My vote is Circle Lord Swirls being you have it. I love my CL
Terry
Circle Lord Swirls beings you have it. I love my CL.
Terry
Don't have a recommendation for quilting this, but I do love it. Enjoyed reading your blog.
Here is my post with a photo of how I quilted mine on my DSM. And how it looks after being washed.
First I stitched in the ditch making diagonal blocks to hold it together.
I had placed my blocks so there were "blades" of similar colors coming out of the centers of these diagonal blocks. I quilted one curve on each of the four blades to emphasize this.
Finally I filled in a large open space with a heart.
Sorry, I forgot to add the link:
http://saras-scraps.blogspot.com/2009/10/hearts-and-new-phone.html
Anything with consistent texture would look great so any of the circle lord templates you mentioned would certainly work -- Swirls would probably be my choice for the additional movement it would give it.
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