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..
I think your thread colours will work very nicely. They are strong enough to stand out from the patches and yet pop on their own. Your are just zooming along on this. Have fun :)
ReplyDeletethe black patches have worked very well, best of luck with the embellishing
ReplyDeleteWhen I was doing CQ restoration work, black embroidery thread was rarely needed. I didn't even have any in my stash of silk threads (which belonged to the company) for the first few years. Probably only needed it on 2 or 3 quilts the whole 6 years I did that work.
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