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Party Time

4/12/2014

 
Have you been contemplating how you would quilt my Irish Eyes top?  For those that were working in Electric Quilt or Art and Stitch, I hope my mini-tutorials from last week were helpful.
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Irish Eyes Quilt top by Kari Schell - Inspired by a Quilt by Irma Gail Hatcher.
Let me share how I approached coming up with quilting designs for this top.  I worked in Art and Stitch for my quilting solution.

The quilt has a fair number of "open spaces".  So I decided to go with custom.  I identified the potential quilting zones in the quilt.
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Irish Eyes quilt top by Kari Schell. Inspired from quilt by Irma Gail Hatcher.
I then came up with a quilting design to fill one of the unique spaces.  I knew I wanted some curves in the quilting and frankly I just doodled a bit until I found something I liked.
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The other elements were pretty much based on this particular element.  For the center circle, I created a magic circle.
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I connected the images.  I needed to add one more line to connect the final image back to the beginning image.
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Then I added smooth nodes at the center of all the connecting line segment.  I also put a couple of placement circles in the center of the block.  Then I dragged the smooth nodes to one of the circles.
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For the half circles, I took a section of the wreath block.
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I created a smaller less complex wreath for the smaller blocks in the border.
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I just used the top of the original element for the square within a square unit and the half blocks in the border.
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The corner was a little wonky, so I played with a number of these elements to fill the space.
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The overall look is as follows:
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Borders were filled as follows:
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Overall, I am pleased with the results.  I just now need to find some time to get the quilt on the machine to get it finished.

Free Quilting Design

Would you like to play with my primary motif.  I've included a pdf of the image along with the Art and Stitch file.

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Click here for a pdf of the motif.

Click here for the Art and Stitch file.

Time to Party

Did you come up with some ideas on how you would quilt this?  Maybe a pantograph or edge to edge design?  Or some other favorite designs from your collection?

If you blogged about it, I am hoping you would be willing to share your blog here.  If not blogging, come back later in the week to see the other blogger's posts.

Here are the guidelines:
An InLinkz Link-up

New Easter Quilt Idea

I was playing in Electric Quilt this week and decided this would make a nice Easter quilt.  Stay tuned for more about this quilt.
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Happy Quilting.

Kari

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Karen Stuart
4/13/2014 06:21:11 am

Kari, you showed how to use Meandering Anything, I had it figured out, but I am wanting to use an angel and she does not fit in the circles, can I use her in the base meandering and if so, how do you use that one as there are no circles to place the design in. The stop and go points in this angel are in the middle of the design as they started with the wings and everything meets in the middle. Thanks for any advice. Karen in Iowa

Kari link
4/14/2014 09:06:01 am

Both work the same. I would suggest adding small segments to your angel -- one going into the angel and one going out. You can then place the angel in any of the circles. You can do the same in the meander base. Your other option would be to alter each of the "base" lines to go in and come out of the center of your angel.

I hope this helps.

Kari


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