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| GRAPHIC BABY 37" x 53" |
I had to design the quilt first so that I knew how and where I wanted the dark blue square and rectangle. That resulted in having to make more HST's with the dark blue to form the shapes.
The original HST's blocks were 6 3/4" and I trimmed those down to 6" in order to fit with my design.
By extending the shapes in the border, it feels like the dark blue shapes are floating over the top. It also gives it a twist, a little oomph, a step up on the design.
Quilt these kind of quilts for me is predetermined! I almost always quilt using straight lines in varying widths. While I quilt that way on them, I don't have one overall design that I use time and time again. Each one has it's own quilting personality.
I used a combination of blue, green and grey thread. Marking out sections first and then using one thread color for the entire section. Again, that could change from quilt to quilt. It's our prerogative to do what we feel or want to do!
There's always an abundance of texture with this quilting after washing. Its one of the payoffs of a finished quilt. Theres that, and it does cover up the missteps of less than perfect lines.
This quilt has been done for quite a while and seeing it now...I really need to get the original idea quilt finished. I've been dreading the task. It isn't huge, it's just big. Lately I've put off quilting several quilts because of their size. My least favorite part of the entire quilting process is quilting. I don't like to wrestle, man handle and twist these days. I'm talking quilting here...!
It's no wonder so many people have their own long arm machines! Is it just me or does it seem like more and more people have long arm machines these days?! It would be heaven...I think...but I also think I would never be able to handle it!
These graphic HST quilts and another quilt design I'm working leaves me with a question that I hope you can help answer.
We all know it's extremely common for quilt patterns to have three, four and five different sizes included. Is it common to have several sizes in a pattern but each one is designed differently to fit the size of the quilt? For example, different sized blocks for each quilt or where the layout is different to accommodate for the size. One quilt I'm debating about writing a pattern for uses the same sized blocks, but because of the sizes the layout is different. Would it be weird? Would it be better to make each a separate pattern and price it accordingly? I don't know what makes the most sense, so your input would be greatly appreciated!
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