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Designing a quilt

This is decidedly not my Grandma’s quilt project.  I was looking for some fun and interesting designs to use for embroidery and stumbled across mandalas on a website and it struck me how easily these designs could be translated into a quilt.  I collected 90 odd images of mandalas to chose from and create transfers from.  Now comes the decision making process:

– What size quilt do I really want to make?

– How big will my blocks be? What color fabric for these blocks?

– What will the sashing look like? Colors?

– Will I use colored quilting threads to make the designs pop and have some fun?

– How well will the transfers hold up on fabric  when ironed on, sewn into the quilt and transferred to the quilting frame? Will I need to put tissue paper down on the quilt before rolling it onto the frame to keep the transfers from getting where I don’t want them? 

I don’t plan to use traditional quilting stitches…in part because I haven’t learned them, and in part because I simply enjoy the look and feel of quilted fabrics. 

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