After wrestling with my skinned quilt and having a bit of a play at doing spirals I decided it would be the perfect quilting design for the autumn tones quilt. My seams and sashings were not particularly straight...sort of my trademark
and any straight line quilting was going to emphasise it no matter if I was doing diagonals, cross hatching or running lines. I didn't want to fm this one so decided a dirty big spiral in the centre with "half" spirals on either side intersecting with the big one would look just dandy.
Now this quilt is about 60" x 70"...it's not teeny so it was going to be a struggle swivelling all that mass through the harp.....ya think? Ya'd be wrong!!!! I grabbed my trusty giant bulldog clips and simply folded the sides in on themselves a few times and then clipped them. I then had a nice tidy little "square" mass that was very manageable...wish I'd taken photos....doh..... Anyways, as I spiraled out I simply released a fold of the clips to expose the next circumference needing stitching. I haven't finished yet...this is a very slow, intensive process but I'm really enjoying it and am thrilled with how it is looking.