At the weekend I spent some time browsing through back copies of Quilting Arts magazine and various other quilting books for inspiration as to how to quilt my latest WIP. In the end the real inspiration for the design came from this book:
I first learnt about this book in a QU class (Quilting Designs by Susan Purney-Mark) and keep going back to it for inspiration. A book I can highly recommend.
The other book, which I find useful just to keep your mind open to how the quilting can really change the quilt, is this one:
I have used ideas from this book too, although I tend to use it to waken up the ol’ brain cells to the different quilting effects possible and then turn to other sources for the ideas.
Today I also went into town to buy some machine embroidery thread. I’m trying out a new brand. It’s Gütermann VICI 40 100% Rayon-Viscose. I bought it from a haberdasher’s that I recently discovered on a chat forum. It’s TOKO Kurzwaren. It’s the best one I’ve found so far in Frankfurt. They also sell online. I’ve been using Madiera thread up to now so I shall be interested to see how this compares. I hope it’s good because the shop carries a huge range of colours.
So now I really have no more excuses for not getting started on the quilting.
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