I've been quilting my quilt with the blocks made by the girls in the Redbird Bee. I find deciding on a quilting design for pieced blocks quite difficult. Continuous Curved Quilting is really a great technique, especially when you can quilt the whole block without stopping and starting again.
It takes some study and thinking. A bit of venturing off from the direction you might presume at first. I thought I'd share with you the path that made the quilting one continuous line for this block.
You can see here where I started, traveled to the center square and completed that...
The pink lines represent where I continued around 3 sides of the squares and 2 sides of the triangles, ending up where I started...
Following a chalk line I drew from corner to corner on each outer square, I quilted continuous curves on either side of the lines. I wanted to end up back to the corner I entered. The dashed lines represent the last 2 quilting lines in the square...
I then quilted the 4th side of the inner square which brought me to the next outer square and continued around the block in the same manner...
I think it creates a nice design that really highlights the piecing. My thread choice is Aurifil 50, a nice fine thread that doesn't make a big impact on your fabric. I switched between using gray blue and soft orange for thread colors, depending on the color of the block.
I'm on to stitching the binding down and can't wait to show you the finished quilt. Those Redbird girls are awesome! . . . Cindy
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