Thread Tales From A Scrappy Quilter

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I've been saving this one because Alice wanted to wait until after a recent local show to post pictures.  She hand pieced most of the blocks using up her stash of novelty thanksgiving theme fabrics.  Fabrics left over went on the back! Alice requests that the thread used on the black blend with the fabrics, one color, no matter what is going on with the top thread.   She is so insistent, she doesn't not mind getting that pop of color that sometimes pulls through when speed changes or directional changes, in fact she finds that when that happens she like the color changes.   Luckily, no pops... those straight lines you see used BLACK on top!  I have explained a judge does not want to see color pops on the front or the back.   It's a very stressful situation as many hours go into quilting a 26" pass by  however wide that quilt is, before any advancing occurs to actually see what has happened on the backside with tens...

Isn't this quilt gorgeous?!   I love those blues and the compass units really remind me of sunflowers. I have been curious for a while to try the digitized Quiltworx designs for some of her patterns.  So far I have done a Prismatic Star and Rocky Mountain Bear Claw.   Rocky Mountain made me realize sometimes there can be more work setting up before the first stitch is taken... and that I could freehand a design just in the amount of time required to mark the boundaries of that unit in the computer so that I can fit a design inside that area.   SMH.  But edge to edge designs are the same way, as you work with them (handguided or computer), you learn which ones will stitch out no fuss and which ones will require extra time to match up designs across your quilt so you can make better decisions about what can be accomplished in a reasonable amount of time.  Anyway, several clients left me quilts last year for when I was...

Photo overload on this but I do have some step by step processes on this one.  This was my most bold thread attempt I think I have ever done.  I wasn't even sure if it would work but I was willing to try out one set of rays and rip it out if I did not like it.     Lou Ellen is a good friend of mine, fellow WWIT bee member and a master at piecing anything.   She had a vision for this quilt.   Diane Phillips "supernova quilt"  had caught her attention.  She wanted to do something a little on the wild side and play with crystals.  She requested long extended points behind the compass rays.    I thought, those all look like crystals added to that quilt.   What if I quilt in thread colors to match each rainbow section?   I had not done this before, wasn't sure I could pull it off but I was intrigued.  I pulled my threads.     But first I ditched and was able to do some f...