ACCESS / Merging Do’s And Dont’s When Adding Your Design DO Always leave at least an inch of negative space between the edges of your design and the border, or seam allowance if you choose not to use a border. DON’T Using an overly large design in a quilt block is aesthetically overpowering. Your embroidered design needs room to breathe so to speak, putting it too close to the border or seam allowance can make it claustrophobic. DO If you plan on adding an embroidered design in your block, pick backgrounds that are meant to have large embroidered designs on top of them. Backgrounds with traditional quilting, stippling or running stitched backgrounds work best for this. When using a very busy design with a lot of detail and colors, it is always best to use a plain fabric background with tonal quilting stitches. This will help keep the embroidered design as the main element in the block, and keep there from being too much going on. Like wise if you use a busy background fabric, keep the design simple with very few colors so it still pops out. DON’T We also have a lot of blocks that use intricate folded fabric techniques to create traditional paper piecing style blocks such as a rose, flying geese and more. These folded fabric patterns aren’t meant to have a large embroidered design cover them up, so instead either leave them blank, or try free motion or running stitch designs that wont cover up the folded fabric. When you put a busy design on a busy background, or plain on plain, everything tends to blend too much and it gets lost.
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