Three Flimsies – How to Quilt Them?
This past weekend we finished a quilt top called Garden Gate. It was a pattern that we received for free from the Fat Quarter Shop when we bought this Jolly Bar along with some nice white Bella fabric:
The name of the fabric is Sundrops by Cory Yoder for Moda. It has a pleasant color palate of orange, apricot, light green, yellow, brown and white. There are lots of flowers, strawberries, polka dots and other pleasing patterns. The color and patterns are 100% different from what we usually gravitate to, so we have no backing in our stash to use. Had I been thinking, I would have ordered a coordinating fabric right away. Duh!!
One of Three:
The Jolly Bars are 5″ x 10″ alternating with a 5″ x 5″ white block. I have no idea how to quilt this! Ellen from Corner to Corner Quilting told me the quilt often talks to her, and she takes her quilting cue from that. This quilt is not speaking to me at all. I would love to hear your suggestions! How would you quilt this? Please share your thoughts in the comments.
Another two quilt tops were just completed also – the animal panels. We bought these two panels on a trip to Arizona. We thought they were different panels with different animals but upon closer inspection they were exactly the same, just slightly different colors. Geez! So we added an extra center block of some fabric that is animal-related and matches instead of the original plan.
Two and Three:
Here is one of the panels. We added a dark blue, although here it looks navy, sashing. I could just some suggestions for quilting this as well. I could go to my standby, or straight-line quilting on the diagonal like I did for Dr. Suess.
If you have any ideas/suggestions for quilting either of these flimsies I welcome your opinions in the comments on our website or on Facebook. Thanks – and stay tuned.
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I think the suggestion of using a chevron pattern to quilt the Jolly Bars quilt is an awesome idea!
Hi Cindy,
I haven’t started quilting yet but I think that’s the direction I’ll take. This is the first time I’ve had a backup on quilts to finish! ~smile~ Roseanne
I think you will really like it. I have a quilt that I used that pattern on and it looks amazing. It’s pictured in this post
https://inastitchquilting.com/2017/08/22/big-big-big-news
Hi Roseann, I made a quilt with the same Jolly Bar last year and am sending you a link https://somethingrosemade14.blogspot.com/2016/10/bits-of-sunshine.html so you can see how I quilted with diagonal lines which is a nice way to break up the horizontal lines. I do like like your pattern and can see making another Jolly Bar Quilt with the ones I still have in my stash.
Hi Rose! Thanks for the link – I will check it out right away. ~smile~ Roseanne
My suggestion for the Jolly Bar quilting is either straight line or wavy lines across. Not very exciting but it would allow the lovely lines of the quilt to shine.
Hi Peggy,
I appreciate your suggestion! It is a rather linear quilt – the blocks remind me of bricks, the way they are stacked. This top may just be set aside for a bit – I’m not feeling it. LOL ~smile~ Roseanne
Y’all continue to amaze me, not only with your beautiful quilts but also the beautiful fabrics you find.
Hi Peggy,
We have been lucky finding good stuff on our road trips! I don’t think we bought enough fabric for the Evening Star quilt so I’m hoping to find that same fabric at a quilt shop closer to us. Otherwise we have to drive back up to Oshkosh where we found the blue for the stars. ~smile~ Roseanne
Good morning Roseanne, I’m looking at your quilt and I think a large zig zag aka chevron design would look very nice on it. Possibly in a varigated thread of similar colors, or you could select one of the colors in it, but stay in light color values.
Keep the rows closley spaced about 1″. Or you could do 5 rows of 1/2″ then skip 2-3 inches and do another set of 5 chevrons. That is a nice easy way to quilt with straight lines, which I know you are pretty good at.
Have fun with it!
Hi Ellen,
I hope you and Linda are well! Would you suggest this for Garden Gate or the animal panel? I could easily do a chevron . . . ~smile~ Roseanne
Garden gate.
The animal quilt you could do crosshatching in the blocks, again using a thread that won’t overpower tbe pictures. You could just do straight lines along the length of the sashing.
I hope this has been helpful. 🙂
Hi Ellen,
It has been very helpful! I appreciate the input. ~smile~ Roseanne