Picking the threads for seams..........

I took parts of the jacket outside this morning to get a truer photo of the colors...  As you can see I added black patches.....no lace.  It is all basted and ready for embellishing.... I will do most of the motifs off block so I can tote them with me and the seams at home where I have space to lay the sections on a table.

I have collected lots of pictures of antique quilts I like and have Penny McMorris's book and I went through a lot of the material... I didn't find any that used black thread for the seam treatments...  If there were, they didn't grab my attention...  Most used a beige/ecru thread or multi colored threads... The ones I really liked were multi-colored seams and the colors were a bit "off" from the quilt.. This quilt especially took my fancy.

 

I started laying the rings across the patches and pulling thread.  I am going with these slightly darker "smokey" colors many of which I used on Thearica's RR block..