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African quilting designs wanted
I'm quilting DS1s jungle animal quilt. There's a picture of it at:
http://www.askv41.dsl.pipex.com/mhp/...y/HPIM0015.htm I'm stippling all the blue areas to make them recede into the background. I'm quilting around the animals to make them stand out. My problem is what to do with the zebra border? I've already decided to use invisible thread (though I've never used it before) because anything else will detract from the black/white zebra pattern. I'd like to do some kind of African zig-zag border pattern, but I don't know how to make zig-zags look particularly African. I'm thinking of making a trip to the museum where they have some African art, and maybe seeing if I can find something in the library, but I thought maybe someone in this group may have already tackled an African quilt and come up with something that would help me. -- Mel Rimmer |
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Take a look at this quilt. The green strip fabric on the right with the
gold zig zag may give you some ideas. http://store1.yimg.com/I/elainemagni..._1784_10054179 Shirley "Mel Rimmer" wrote in message ... I'm quilting DS1s jungle animal quilt. There's a picture of it at: http://www.askv41.dsl.pipex.com/mhp/...y/HPIM0015.htm I'm stippling all the blue areas to make them recede into the background. I'm quilting around the animals to make them stand out. My problem is what to do with the zebra border? I've already decided to use invisible thread (though I've never used it before) because anything else will detract from the black/white zebra pattern. I'd like to do some kind of African zig-zag border pattern, but I don't know how to make zig-zags look particularly African. I'm thinking of making a trip to the museum where they have some African art, and maybe seeing if I can find something in the library, but I thought maybe someone in this group may have already tackled an African quilt and come up with something that would help me. -- Mel Rimmer |
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Hullo Mel
What a smashing quilt for Tom. If you are going to use invisible thread, I think the quilting pattern will be pretty well hidden. However, just a thought would be to do double, mirror image zig-zags (so it will look like diamond shapes overall). When I say double, I mean parallel lines about half an inch apart. Mirror image: one zigging when the other zags. Diamond patterns are a fundamental design and might well have been used in Africa. .. In article , Mel Rimmer writes I'm quilting DS1s jungle animal quilt. There's a picture of it at: http://www.askv41.dsl.pipex.com/mhp/...y/HPIM0015.htm I'm stippling all the blue areas to make them recede into the background. I'm quilting around the animals to make them stand out. My problem is what to do with the zebra border? I've already decided to use invisible thread (though I've never used it before) because anything else will detract from the black/white zebra pattern. I'd like to do some kind of African zig-zag border pattern, but I don't know how to make zig-zags look particularly African. I'm thinking of making a trip to the museum where they have some African art, and maybe seeing if I can find something in the library, but I thought maybe someone in this group may have already tackled an African quilt and come up with something that would help me. -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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In article ,
Mel Rimmer wrote: I'm quilting DS1s jungle animal quilt. There's a picture of it at: http://www.askv41.dsl.pipex.com/mhp/...y/HPIM0015.htm I'm stippling all the blue areas to make them recede into the background. I'm quilting around the animals to make them stand out. My problem is what to do with the zebra border? I've already decided to use invisible thread (though I've never used it before) because anything else will detract from the black/white zebra pattern. I'd like to do some kind of African zig-zag border pattern, but I don't know how to make zig-zags look particularly African. I'm thinking of making a trip to the museum where they have some African art, and maybe seeing if I can find something in the library, but I thought maybe someone in this group may have already tackled an African quilt and come up with something that would help me. Mel, what if you just echoed the zebra stripes -- a few horizontal to the next section, than a few vertical to the next, and so on. Either that, or maybe you could find a drawing of a zebra you could adapt to a quilting motif and just quilt a parade of zebras in that border. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
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Mel I'm from South Africa and I can tell you that big and bold is the way to
go Ethne in PA "Mel Rimmer" wrote in message ... I'm quilting DS1s jungle animal quilt. There's a picture of it at: http://www.askv41.dsl.pipex.com/mhp/...y/HPIM0015.htm I'm stippling all the blue areas to make them recede into the background. I'm quilting around the animals to make them stand out. My problem is what to do with the zebra border? I've already decided to use invisible thread (though I've never used it before) because anything else will detract from the black/white zebra pattern. I'd like to do some kind of African zig-zag border pattern, but I don't know how to make zig-zags look particularly African. I'm thinking of making a trip to the museum where they have some African art, and maybe seeing if I can find something in the library, but I thought maybe someone in this group may have already tackled an African quilt and come up with something that would help me. -- Mel Rimmer |
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In article , Ethne Slusser
writes Mel I'm from South Africa and I can tell you that big and bold is the way to go Ethne in PA Thanks, and thanks also to everyone who answered. I've been googling for African designs, African zig zags, African quilts, and I think that just plain zig zags are very African however you do them. Your advice makes sense, Ethne - keep it big and bold, and keep it simple. I know that invisible thread won't show up, but the relief patterns it makes against the fabric will, if only in a subtle way. The border is too wide to leave unquilted so I have to do something in there. But I like the zebra skin print so much (my brilliant sister, Steph's, idea) I don't want to detract from the graphic black-and-whiteness of it. Am I being too cowardly? Should I take the "big and bold" lesson on board and do thick satin stitch zigzags all over it in black red yellow and green? Then again, it's only a border, I don't want to make it the focus of the quilt. That should be the funny cartoon animals. Oh dear. I'm thinking too hard about this again :-( -- Mel Rimmer |
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Got a picture?
Roberta in D "Mel Rimmer" wrote in message ... In article , Ethne Slusser writes Mel I'm from South Africa and I can tell you that big and bold is the way to go Ethne in PA Thanks, and thanks also to everyone who answered. I've been googling for African designs, African zig zags, African quilts, and I think that just plain zig zags are very African however you do them. Your advice makes sense, Ethne - keep it big and bold, and keep it simple. I know that invisible thread won't show up, but the relief patterns it makes against the fabric will, if only in a subtle way. The border is too wide to leave unquilted so I have to do something in there. But I like the zebra skin print so much (my brilliant sister, Steph's, idea) I don't want to detract from the graphic black-and-whiteness of it. Am I being too cowardly? Should I take the "big and bold" lesson on board and do thick satin stitch zigzags all over it in black red yellow and green? Then again, it's only a border, I don't want to make it the focus of the quilt. That should be the funny cartoon animals. Oh dear. I'm thinking too hard about this again :-( -- Mel Rimmer |
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I think I would freehand quilt the stripes with a transparent thread. Just
pick some out to outline then keep moving to the next stripe. The stripes will pop out. I've done something similar and it looked great. Personally, I don't think I'd like a zig zag or Greek Key type of quilting on top of the zebra stripe. -- Kathyl remove "nospam-" before mchsi http://community.webshots.com/user/kathylquiltz "Mel Rimmer" wrote in message ... In article , Ethne Slusser writes Mel I'm from South Africa and I can tell you that big and bold is the way to go Ethne in PA Thanks, and thanks also to everyone who answered. I've been googling for African designs, African zig zags, African quilts, and I think that just plain zig zags are very African however you do them. Your advice makes sense, Ethne - keep it big and bold, and keep it simple. I know that invisible thread won't show up, but the relief patterns it makes against the fabric will, if only in a subtle way. The border is too wide to leave unquilted so I have to do something in there. But I like the zebra skin print so much (my brilliant sister, Steph's, idea) I don't want to detract from the graphic black-and-whiteness of it. Am I being too cowardly? Should I take the "big and bold" lesson on board and do thick satin stitch zigzags all over it in black red yellow and green? Then again, it's only a border, I don't want to make it the focus of the quilt. That should be the funny cartoon animals. Oh dear. I'm thinking too hard about this again :-( -- Mel Rimmer |
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In article , Roberta Zollner
writes Got a picture? Roberta in D http://www.askv41.dsl.pipex.com/mhp/...y/HPIM0015.htm -- Mel Rimmer |
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On Fri, 2 Apr 2004 13:09:50 +0100, Mel Rimmer
wrote: I'm quilting DS1s jungle animal quilt. There's a picture of it at: http://www.askv41.dsl.pipex.com/mhp/...y/HPIM0015.htm I'm stippling all the blue areas to make them recede into the background. I'm quilting around the animals to make them stand out. My problem is what to do with the zebra border? I've already decided to use invisible thread (though I've never used it before) because anything else will detract from the black/white zebra pattern. I'd like to do some kind of African zig-zag border pattern, but I don't know how to make zig-zags look particularly African. I'm thinking of making a trip to the museum where they have some African art, and maybe seeing if I can find something in the library, but I thought maybe someone in this group may have already tackled an African quilt and come up with something that would help me. Zigzags, triangles, and diamonds are all easy geometric shapes that can be easily found in all primitive art, no mater what the culture. The particular culture is often denoted by the combination of colors used, or the fabric print, and other things like that. If zigzag is what you want to do, zigzag away! Debra in VA |
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