Sunday, June 24, 2012

Preparing to FMQ a 1930's style quilt!

Here's my next UFO quilt on the conveyor belt . . well, on the Juki actually.  Have 2 more waiting to be layered (tedious chore) plus other quilt tops in the wings.  This 1930's quilt will have to remain on kitchen table whilst I decide exactly how to tackle it.

Modern patterns do not appear to sit well on old style quilts. McTavishing cum Kitchen Window design as per completed Wm Morris quilt (see earlier post) not really appropriate - nor modern geometric designs.

 Have a couple of antique quilts in the loft. Will look to see how they were quilted and maybe adapt their hand quilted designs for the sewing machine.  Decisions decisions . . .

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Love the 1930s quilt.

Juliet

jan said...

I know you will come up with the perfect desing quilting pattern for this beauty.
I do agree with you about the patterns not suiting the quilts though, and sadly, vermicelli is used to death nowadays.
jan