Saturday, February 20, 2016

Modern Wedge Slow Stitching

 
To prepare for Slow Sunday Stitching tomorrow, tonight, I hand basted the wedges down to the background on my modern wedge quilt. I started this quilt at a workshop taught by Kathy Doughty from Material Obsession in Australia when she was in Ontario a couple of years ago.  I have been playing around with layouts on my design wall for a few weeks now and finally settled on this layout:
 
 
 
I used red thread for the basting. I thought about just pinning the curved sections on but was afraid that the pieces would shift as I sewed them. 
 
 
Basting on the wider wedges:

 
 
I need to get this project finished up so that I can free up half of my design wall for my daughter's new quilt.  There are lots of pieces to keep track of and they all need to stay in the right places or the pattern will not work out properly.   I washed the fabric for her quilt this week and will start cutting this week.  In the meantime, I will be hand appliqueing the wedges down onto the background fabric.  I started tonight with the narrow wedges...

I am turning under about a 1/4" as I sew and trying to keep a smooth curve in the process. So far, so good!

Next, I will have to figure out how to quilt this project.  I am going to do it on my DSM. If you  have any ideas, please let me know!  The London Friendship Quilters Guild is having their quilt show this October and I want to finish off a few of my UFO's in time to put them in the show.

I will be linking up with the other slow Sunday stitchers at Kathy's blog.

14 comments:

  1. Wow this is a stunning pattern! Bright and Bold...really pops!

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  2. Indeed -- bold and bright and beautiful! Great color play! :)

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  3. Oh I love the bright colors! What a fun looking project!

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  4. I like the arrangement you have settled on and it's interesting to see the close up of the fabrics. This is going to be a really striking quilt.

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  5. The low volume background is great! How big is this?

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  6. So exciting to see your progress on this piece!
    How about machine quilting the background with either stipple or echo quilting... and then... the piece de resistance... big stitch with red thread down the middle of each wedge!

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  7. I love this! I was thinking about echoing the curves in the back ground like Kathy mentioned.

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  8. How lucky to have a class with Kathy Doughty! Your quilt is super fun and some big stitch quilting on it could be cool, as Kathy says. Also, check out RachealDaisy--she does some interesting finishes

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  9. I like Kathy's idea. I was thinking stipple in the background to make them pop. Very bright and cheerful. Great job.

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  10. Beautiful design. I think you could make some geometric figures in the background and fill them with some stipple quilting.

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  11. Nice layout and that fabric is gorgeous!

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  12. I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but when I saw your quilt I thought of the game Candyland. I love the colorful paths on this quilt.

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