Help Please!
I have had a colleague who has asked me to make her a quilt with some vintage airplanes on it ... I found some clip art on Etsy which I purchased, traced onto Heat & Bond and then appliquéd onto some red Kona Cotton.
This first image is after I have appliqued and done all the perimeter stitching on the plane ... quite liked it here.
Then I stitched around the plane about a 1/4" of an inch with straight stitching and then did fairly tight meandering quilting around the plane on the white.
As you can see, the plane doesn't look quite as crisp when I am done. I don't prewash any of my fabric, so I don't know if that would help or not. Or is it simply what happens when one quilts?
I am going to take it in to show the mom to be tomorrow and get her input before I try to make the quilt in earnest.
Any thoughts are sure welcome!
Thanks!
Lisa
Then I stitched around the plane about a 1/4" of an inch with straight stitching and then did fairly tight meandering quilting around the plane on the white.
I am going to take it in to show the mom to be tomorrow and get her input before I try to make the quilt in earnest.
Any thoughts are sure welcome!
Thanks!
Lisa
The tight stipple is crunching the pattern. You have to keep the quilting simple and open - a large cross hatch works well.
ReplyDeleteI like your design. Did you applique the plane on the quilt or just the top? Stabilizing the applique first would help (I like to use a fusible tearaway), applique just on the quilt top. I think you should be able to stipple around it without too much distortion.
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