YBR quilting suggestions needed

Hi all,

I'm hoping the many folks who have done Yellow Brick Road quilts
will have some suggestions for quilting designs. I'm making this
for a friend's baby shower on Sunday 20 July. (!!) Fortunately my
current writing contract has been slightly delayed, so I should have
a couple of almost-full days to devote to finishing this. The top
can be found he
http://www.wdk.com/images/quilts/Sta...adwBorders.jpg

Any ideas will be much appreciated!

No pastel quilts here,

-- gail
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Stars!!!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Or puffy clouds, or maybe smiling crescent moons (or all of them!)

Ronnie

In article , LC aka Fiddy
wrote:

Stars!!!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

LC, you are FAST! I was thinking about stars, but am unsure
as to what to do with them. A star in each block (lots of ends
to bury)? Some kind of continuous star pattern?

Thanks for responding!

-- g

LC aka Fiddy wrote:
Stars!!!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Hmm, I like the idea of moons.

Thanks, Ronnie. You've got me thinking.

-- g


Ronnie Wexler wrote:
Or puffy clouds, or maybe smiling crescent moons (or all of them!)

Ronnie

In article , LC aka Fiddy
wrote:


Stars!!!

The Blessed Fiddy, Patroness Saint of the Disorganized
LC in Sunny So Cal
Personality Development Specialist (Full-Time Mom!)

Stars would be great. I found that it isn't to hard to free-form sew
a star and then run a "tail" to the next place and make another one.
Then it is continuous stitching, fewer ends to deal with!
Good luck.
Mary

I have quilted a couple of YBRs with meandering in variegated threads
and was pleased with the results. I did another one in a diagonal
crosshatch, again with variegated thread, and did not like the result as
well as the meandering. The lines of a YBR are all so straight up &
down, side to side, that I think it needs some curves in the quilting to
soften the look a little.

Julia in MN

Gail M. wrote:
Hi all,

I'm hoping the many folks who have done Yellow Brick Road quilts
will have some suggestions for quilting designs. I'm making this
for a friend's baby shower on Sunday 20 July. (!!) Fortunately my
current writing contract has been slightly delayed, so I should have
a couple of almost-full days to devote to finishing this. The top
can be found he
http://www.wdk.com/images/quilts/Sta...adwBorders.jpg

Any ideas will be much appreciated!

No pastel quilts here,

-- gail
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That's how I quilted two of my YBR's - meandering. One with variegated
thread, the other just one color that complemented the quilt. Stitch in the
ditch for the third one. I liked the meandering much better.

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Donna in Idaho!
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"Julia in MN" wrote in message
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I have quilted a couple of YBRs with meandering in variegated threads
and was pleased with the results. I did another one in a diagonal
crosshatch, again with variegated thread, and did not like the result as
well as the meandering. The lines of a YBR are all so straight up &
down, side to side, that I think it needs some curves in the quilting to
soften the look a little.

Julia in MN

Gail M. wrote:
Hi all,

I'm hoping the many folks who have done Yellow Brick Road quilts
will have some suggestions for quilting designs. I'm making this
for a friend's baby shower on Sunday 20 July. (!!) Fortunately my
current writing contract has been slightly delayed, so I should have
a couple of almost-full days to devote to finishing this. The top
can be found he
http://www.wdk.com/images/quilts/Sta...adwBorders.jpg

Any ideas will be much appreciated!

No pastel quilts here,

-- gail
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me directly



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Gail:
Here's a quick and easy one that I've used on Stack and Slash.
First grid quilt the blocks. Then switch to free motion quilting;
just doodle lines up & down or left and right. Do a up and down
in first block, ending in the up area near block #2; do left and
right in #2, ending in the bottom near #3; do up and down , etc.
You work the row from left to right. At the end of the row make
sure you end near lower corner at the border, so you can move
directly to the block just beneath. Work your way back to the
left. Here is a 'sketch.'

"="="="
="="="=
"="="="

Clear as mud? It is much easier to do than to describe! There is
no pattern, so there are no errors!
PAT in VA/USA

"Gail M." wrote:

Hi all,

I'm hoping the many folks who have done Yellow Brick Road quilts
will have some suggestions for quilting designs. I'm making this
for a friend's baby shower on Sunday 20 July. (!!) Fortunately my
current writing contract has been slightly delayed, so I should have
a couple of almost-full days to devote to finishing this. The top
can be found he
http://www.wdk.com/images/quilts/Sta...adwBorders.jpg