Rainy Day Spirals and LV Leaves
No, there isn’t a finish to share again this week. You can bet there WILL be a finish before the end of the month. We have an October OMG quilt to finish! I would like to ask your opinion and give you an update! First up, here is a picture of the Rainy Day flimsy that we are asking for your opinion about:
One Spiral?
We added borders to our most recent version of the 16-patch framed four-square pattern. That is really a mouthful hence the name change to Rainy Day Spiral quilt. Here’s where we are asking for your opinion! Originally, I was going to quilt one large spiral like this:
This quilting pattern radiates outward from the very center of the quilt. A walking foot was used for this stitching with spacing of about 1/2″ apart. That means lots and lots of turning of the quilt but the stitching would consist of one spiral.
Many Spirals?
Recently, I was playing around on Pinterest and found this fabulous finished quilt and its quilting inspiration. This picture is from Sew Kind of Wonderful and it looks to me like it would work fabulous in my Rainy Day squares:
This would involve individual spirals in the 35 center squares, probably done with my FMQing foot at 1/4″ spacing. The borders would feature a different quilting pattern or two or three.
FMQ Vote:
Please share your choice on how Rainy Days should be quilted! Add any comments below, please:
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LV Leaves FMQ Too
Quilting on the Las Vegas Autumn Leaves quilt has commenced. My plans of using a leaf chain I saw on Craftsy/Bluprint were set aside for this “S” shape in the sashing. Here is a photo of the beginning quilting. I can’t recall what this stitch pattern is called but I learned it from Angela Walters. The sashing color is actually green – I don’t know why it looks teal!
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Hmm, I am wondering if I can use that spiral idea on anything I have done!!! I love it.
I agree with Vicki. She obviously thinks like me 🙂 Whatever you choose, I am looking forward to seeing it!
I think Yvonne’s idea is just perfect.
Your Rainy Day quilt is great, Roseanne! I love the combination of 16 patches and framed 4 patches. Have fun with the quilting, whatever you choose!
Beautiful quilt, and maybe even more beautiful with many spirals 😉
Hi Roseanne, Seems everyone is liking the many spirals. I also agree. I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
oh — love the colors on the rainy day flimsy!
I would suggest several spirals but allowing them to get fairly large so that you aren’t doing too much of the harder, tighter, inner spiral rings!
I love the idea of many smaller spirals (that pic you found is awesome!). I think it reinforces the rainy-day idea—the tiny spirals look like the pattern created by a a shower of raindrops. : )
I like the smaller spirals. They make me think of raindrop is puddles.
Well, I think either spiral idea would be awesome. Because I would go crazy trying to make many spirals, I would veer towards one big one! But that’s me!
The small spirals would look wonderful, but I think it would be a ton more work. Time is money you know!
I think either way would look great, 1 spiral vs. more spirals. I assume that was a type -‘at 1/4″ apart’??? If you do more spirals it will look like tons of water splashes from lots of raindrops. I’d do whatever is easist at this point!
Looks like so far everyone things you should quilt many small spirals. That quilting will make it look wonderful!
Hi Roseanne – I love the Rainy Day spiral layout– looks like a great scrap buster! TGIF 🙂