Vintage quilt tops! A joy and also a challenge to free motion quilt, right?
My client Marla brought not one, but TWO vintage tops for edge to edge quilting.
They are very alike, which isn’t surprising - she actually took one very large top and cut it in two, so that she and her sister can each have one. Isn’t that clever?
Both have the consistent pale yellow diamonds throughout a collection of scrappy and widely varied fabrics. I’m guessing about ‘70s era prints and calicos.
Because it was created with diamonds, most of the outside edge has the angled shapes from the diamonds, and we decided to preserve that to add interest and personality to the quilt.
Marla chose simple cream-colored muslin for the backing, so she purchased it 108” wide, and long enough for BOTH quilts. So, 2 quilts with one loading. That’s efficiency!
Topics will include:
- the one-load-2-quilts idea, and how I organize that at the longarm
- basting the unique edge
- thread choices (the 2 quilts will be different)
- E2E or all-over quilting (only one quilt will be completed during the show)
Again, because we’re creating “sister” quilts, not twins, there will be different threads used for each, and also different quilting designs.
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