PICK A PETAL is the 2024 Block of the Month quilt designed by Jen Kingwell exclusively for The Quilt Show. It is FREE to Star Members, join today to take advantage of this great bonus. WATCH Jen's Show to see how she makes this quilt--it is FREE for EVERYONE all of 2024: Jen Kingwell Show 3401
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This month the pattern instructions show how to assemble various parts of the quilt. Most of us did this as we were making the quilt. If you are ready for the quilting, it's time!
Be sure to watch Show 3401 while it is free to Star Members, through December 31, 2024. Jen talks about her quilting designs and shows some details of the free-form quilting she did with decorative thread. She doesn't have a plan for specific motifs quilted in specific places. It appears she did what the quilt told her it wanted in any given area.
Here are some detail shots that may assist you as you do the quilting on your own Pick A Petal:
Some of the visible stitching is additional embroidery added to just the top, not quilting lines that go through all three layers. Some of the visible stitching is hand quilting, that does go through all three layers. I leave it to you to decide how you want to enhance your quilt with your quilting.
In addition, the Month 12 pattern contains Jen's instructions for how she added a FACING, to finish the completed quilt, rather than an applied binding. I plan to try that on a small quilt I will soon have finished. A FACING is a nice way to treat the edge of a quilt when a binding might detract.
The FACING brings the front of the quilt to the back without adding a binding. Here you can see additional rows of hand quilting at the very edge of the quilt. People will wonder how you did that outside edge!
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Wish we had a photo of the back to see how densely she quilted the quilt. Not sure how I want to do it.
ReplyDeleteGee it really looks like it deserves hand quilting because of the nature of the design. But how many months/years until it would be actually finished! Maybe we could experiment with machine quilting that imitates hand quilting for this one? If you quilted it sparingly like the hand quilting looks to be done, maybe that could work.
ReplyDeleteSure. There is not a lot of quilting on this. If I were quilting mine, I would do a “hybrid” method, stitch in the ditch by machine along the primary construction lines, then do hand quilting with Big Stitch where it shows.
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