WARNING: everything in this post has to do with a quilting design problem I’m facing. If you want to help me solve my design problem, or just look at some pretty photos of a current project, read on. <\/p>\n
Okay, so I’m in a bit of a bind. I had a calendar with a picture of a lovely batik quilt. Then I decided to make one of my own. However, since I wasn’t feeling up to hand-dyeing my cottons, and the commercially available ones in no way correspond to the colours used in the original, I had to improvise.<\/p>\n
I then came up with a fun, original quilting idea, using multicoloured blue and green and white threads for the water areas, and red-orange-gold thread for the flame panels. <\/p>\n
Now, my problem is size. The usual crib quilt dimensions are 36×45″, which makes a nice, tidy rectangle. At the moment, each of the stripey blue-green and red bars are 8″ wide by 23″ high, which makes for complications when borders are added. Assuming a matching 8″ border of solid turqoise with red corners, the finished dimensions would be 56″ wide by 39″ high. Not exactly a perfect rectangle. Or, for that matter, a standard size of any kind — too big for a crib, too small for a lap quilt. <\/p>\n
So, I can either run with this, add the borders and call it a “wall quilt” (although I would really like it to be a useable work of art; for me, that’s the whole joy of quilting, is that it’s functional).<\/p>\n
Or, I can GET SCRUNCHY!!! Seriously, I was toying around with the idea of trimming the center down by ripping the seams open and trimming all five centre panels to make them conform to standard sizing, when I thought “why bother ripping seams? why not just get creative and scrunch up the red fabric for a 3-D effect?” This would look like so (again, imagine the borders and corner panels, please).<\/p>\n
This has good and bad aspects. Good:<\/b> no more seam-ripping, cutting or re-sewing; makes the quilt truly original and innovative. Bad:<\/b> may be hard to quilt through multiple layers; takes away from traditional look; could be perceived as bad form in quilt competition; may not feel as nice and snuggly to the touch as a flat quilt; could be harder to launder.<\/p>\n
Please help me to decide what to do with my design problem!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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