UFO Sunday with Leah Day - FMQ on X's and O's quilt

This week I made some progress with the FMQ design on the X's and O's quilt. My toughtest decision was what thread color to use. I tried two different thread colors: Dark gray and Dark Green. Both the thread color blended pretty well with most of the fabric. 
I planned to do the Plume Feather FMQ on the print fabric and probably just to stitich-in-the-ditch for the diamonds. I hate to change threads often and the darker thread which I choose for my print fabric won't look good on the white diamonds. 

Here are some pcitures of my Angela Walters's Plume Feather FMQ:

Closeup of the Plume Feather FMQ


Front of the Quilt - Plume Feather FMQ

Back of the Quilt - Plume Feather FMQ 



Leah I hope its not too late to ask a question. So, here I go:
1. For a busy quilt how to do choose the thread color, if you're going for a look that blends well with the fabric?
2. Also if you were to quilt this one would stop and use a different thread color for the white diamonds.

Thanks again for answering all our questions.
cheers,
Malini

Comments

  1. Love the "plume feather"! Thread color is always such a major consideration for me, also! I have gotten past the notion that it must be a fairly close match to the backing AND the top. I focus on the top only and have been happy. There are those projects that end up requiring a thread change more often than I would have wished but in the end I was thankful I did the changes. But not always. Sometimes I go the "middle of the road" route with a more neutral color. Sorry, not much help here!!!!

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    1. Thank you, Doreen. I do like the look and texture of this on the grey and green fabric. But the it does show up on the mustard and pink fabric. May be I just need to do my FMQ carefully there ;)

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  2. Hey great job!! I like what you have done. Your thread choice has worked well. Have you ever considered variegated threads for busy fabrics? Sometimes they work perfect.

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    1. Thank you! Have to try the variegated thread sometime.
      But its another experiment though.

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  3. The plume feathers look so great on your quilt. I like using variegated threads when I want some overall blending but then if you can't see the pretty design why quilt it. Lovely work.

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    1. Thank you!
      I have used variegated thread only once. But as far I remember it took a while to get my stitches perfect with it.
      So, true its always fun to see our design too.

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  4. This is really turning out beautifully! Your quilted feathers are perfection!

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    1. Thank you,Danielle. I guess a lot of doodling on the paper helped ;).

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