Late today – other things to do
I‘d pinned the elements together for my pineapple quilt, but didn’t get round to stitching them until after lunch, so that I could take a photo. Glaring faults show up but I think I can cope with those. The next step is to add some wide borders to the long sides, to improve the proportions for a child’s bed, and then to mark the plain squares ready for hand quilting. I’ve acquired a lovely butterfly stencil, and plan to quilt using a thickish teal-coloured thread.
I look forward to seeing your butterfly quilting. Both my machine and hand quilting aren’t up to much, to be honest, but I am finding it much less stressful by machine quilting one block at a time for my F2F quilt – even trying some free motion quilting. I’m not sure I’d ever get anything finished if I tried to quilt by hand.
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Jock’s come up with another idea since then: he suggests I embroider the butterflies in contrasting colours before sandwiching the quilt, but he wants me to use a hoop, which I find REALLY difficult.
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Oh, O.K. Then what would you do for the quilting?
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Shadow quilting in the plain bits.
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Sounds like a plan 🙂
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It’s quite lovely. I don’t see any problem with it. I have tried quilting by hand and never been able to pull it off. Glad you can.
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My machine quilting is naff, that’s why I hand quilt. Jock keeps nagging me to use a frame, but it just doesn’t work for me.
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Each person has their own way of doing things and I learn a bit from each way. I’ll keep trying to hand quilt as time allows. I’m a bit envious as I enjoy hand needlework.
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Viv, these are lovely, and mistakes are in your eyes only. It’s such a pretty colour combination. The butterfly is a really great idea for the plain squares.
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Thanks for the vote of confidence
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🙂
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Beautiful!
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The pineapple squares look lovely. I think those butterflies will cover the mistakes you see.
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You may be late, but Kate is later! 😉
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looking good.
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Weeelll, I hope I can rescue it. My accuracy seems to have disappeared.
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Very pretty! >
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