Quilting for customers can be fun.  It can also be taxing.  I have some customers who have very specific ideas as to how they want a quilt quilted. Yet others have absolutely no ideas for quilting their quilt.  Over the next few posts, I will take you through my process of how I quilt some quilts.

This first couple will be quilts where the customer knew exactly how they wanted a quilt quilted.

This quilt customer pieced a very pretty quilt from the book “A Piece of Cake” by Peta Peace, published by That Patchwork Place. It was for her daughter, who was having her very first grandchild.  She wanted the quilt quilted exactly like it was in the book.  Which is great because I didn’t have to think of how to quilt it.  But on the other hand, the quilting was intense.  But I was up for the challenge.

I first ditch stitched around the letters. Then I put all the straight-line quilting, dividing the various sections, using a ruler. Some of the designs I followed exactly. Others I quilted a variation similar to the book.  The original can be found here.

Some of the original quilting designs required marking the quilt. I prefer to mark as little as possible. With this quilt being white, I shied away from marking it at all. I knew this quilt was going to be traveling in an airplane, that left out the Frixion pens. The ink from these pens will reappear when the ink gets cold. I tried using painters’ tape but did not like the results. So, I altered the designs to mimic the original, but where I would not need to mark. That meant more ruler work.

The differences are subtle. The customer loved it. Her daughter did too.