This quilt is really almost finished. It just needs to be quilted.

But for some reason, I have never run across the right quilting design for it.

When I first made it -- back in 1994, I knew I wanted to machine quilt it. I had made a series of quilts using the same technique -- sewing strips together and then cutting them into triangles and arranging the triangles into blocks for a quilt. And these were the triangles that were left over from some of the other quilts.

When the quilt top was finished, I was reasonably happy, but it just seemed like a good candidate for machine quilting, and not an investment of my time for hand quilting.

That decided, I layered it and basted it -- with poly batting. Fortunately when I basted it, I didn't know anything about basting with safety pins, so the thread basting has been holding the three layers safely for the past 13 years, and I didn't need to worry about rusty pins.

Every once in a while, I pull it out, hang it up, and hope for some inspiration for a quilting design. So far, nothing has occurred to me.

Because I am so new at machine quilting something other than stitch-in-the-ditch, I thought it might be fun for us to explore this together.

Here it is:

Thumb through the pages of your newest quilting resource, Show Me How to Plan My Quilting, use the information about my quilt, and then send in a design.

I'll post the proposals, and everyone in the group will vote. The design with the most votes wins. It's just that simple. For you, anyway. Then, I'll get to quilt it, and show you the results.

Information about the quilt is on the pages listed below.

Post your design ideas in the Image Gallery or send them to me, and I'll post them. Email us at: info@how-to-quilt.com

The deadline to submit your design idea is September 16. The ideas will all be posted by September 19, and then we'll begin voting.

Stay tuned for more details.

Happy Quilting!