Stitching the pieces together
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Long day at Mom's need to quilt to unravel, I mean unwind! The quilt in the header is one I designed when we were raising llamas. It is my one and only attempt at entering a quilt in the county fair. Honorable mention because my quilting wasn't close enough, but it was my first quilt larger than a crib size.
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Very sweet Meece! I was waiting for the story.
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Oh Meece, I've just come to the forum for my daily fix and I've checked out the old quilts that you posted. They are superb! the fabrics fantastic with the softness of color that I remember from the fifties and earlier. I think you are right about the SU in the fabric being from a sugar sack. There are some early examples I've seen here in Aus. with the same thing. The earlier generations had to be very inventive when it came to getting fabrics to use for making something that was essentially a bedding item. We on the other hand have the luxury of choosing from a massive range to make something that, although some are used everyday, most are purely decorative.
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Hi ladies,
I crochet and sew but have recently been interested in quilting. I taught myself to crochet which was major for me LOL and I enjoy it so much. I'm presently working on sewing curtains for my kitchen and when I get those done I'm going to get me a book to learn how to quit. At least the basics of it. I have a pattern for a strip quilt that sounds good for a beginner LOL. I luv the quilts shown on here. You all are quite crafty. Hugs, Mazy
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This is a quilt from the book Home Sweet Home, but I changed all the houses and used homes from a nearby 19th-century town. My guild raffled the quilt last fall and we raised quite a bit to give to the fund for the upkeep of the one-room schoolhouse (center block).
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Wow Anna, that's incredible!
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GORGEOUS!!
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Wow! It's quilts like that one that are difficult to see go, but it sounds like it was for a good cause.
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Anna - That is gorgeous - what detail.
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You are so right, Meece. My entire family bought tickets like crazy for the raffle. My husband actually went behind my back and called the woman who won the quilt to see if he could buy it from her. I was mad because he would have paid way too much and I would have felt bad, esp. vis à vis all my quilting buddies who helped and who were just as sad to see it go as I was. If I really wanted that quilt I could make another since I have the pattern and enough of the fabric left over. I've been known to make the same quilt twice. The Kaffe Fassett I posted earlier is a duplicate. My daughter will be getting it eventually. She was totally enamored of the one I made for her best friend.Right now I am making a tile quilt and it's pure appliqué. Ever noticed how appliqué tightens up your background fabric? It's giving me a little grief, but I'll figure it out. We always do, right?0
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Use a stabilizer under the quilt square to keep it from "tightening" as you call it. Works like a breeze. You can either get one that your remove after, or let stay. Even a second piece of muslin will help hold everything in place.
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I am going to try that with block #7. Thank you, Barbe!
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I finished one more Grandmother's garden block today. At this rate the flowers wil be done in about 5 months, then the background...
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I am still working on two quilts at the same time. They are put together and I am hand quilting both. I work on one for awhile and then switch to the other. Like Meece, at this rate, I will be done in a couple of months. Will post pics when I am done.
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I was so surprised, I took my project to the oncologist's. office yesterday and I can sew the little hexagon's together pretty fast, but I didn't have to wait but maybe 10 minutes including the waiting room and the exam room. I was looking forward to having more wait time. Now is that an addiction to quilting or what?
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Meece, I do the same thing, take my quilting or crocheting with me to doctor's appointments and expect to get a lot done. Then they ruin my plan by taking me back in quickly. Last year when I was crocheting the snowflakes, I had to make sure I had completed snowflakes in my work bag so I could show others who were curious about what I was doing, what they actually looked like completed.
Sheila
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That's a good idea Sheila! And then you could keep crocheting as they admired the done one. I hand appliqued some art deco "tiles" while my DH was in the hospital once. I hated people interrupting me!!
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I don't quilt but I come by to look at your creations. They are really lovely. You are such talented ladies.
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I'm am sure you must have some sort of craftiness in you, Sharon..
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I am trying to get plenty of hexagons ready as I am taking a long ride tomorrow and should have plenty of time to get some blocks done.
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Sharon - You must have other crafts you do. We would like to see some pictures - please!
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DH asked last night who I was making THIS quilt for. I told him us. Guess that surprised him. He said "Wow, we don't have and US quilt!"
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Oh my goodness. I am so not crafty in the productive sense of the word.
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You probably aren't giving yourself credit. But you are welcome here to visit anytime!
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I always have a quilt or two going. My DH quit asking me a long time ago who I am making the quilts for. Most times I don't know. I do tend to make them up and save them for gifts if I need one.
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Anna thats so beautifu
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I am finishing a queen size quilt for me. in 2008 my quilt guild had a 'mystery quilt' challenge where we were told how much of 8 different fabrics to buy and how each letter compared to each other (A - focus fabric, b- dark one color, c - med same color, D - light same color, and so on). then we got directions in stages (cut so many 2.5 inch strips out of fabrics b,c,e), sew strips together in certain patterns and cut apart into strip sets. and sew different strip sets back together. We didn't know what it was going to look like until we were about 2/3 of the way into the mystery. The quilt finished about full bed size using their directions without borders. I used fabric from my stash and my mother's stash so I had plenty of extra fabrics to use for borders and got ti to a large queen size. I finally gave up my idea to hand quilt it, I just wanted to get it done, and paid one of the other members to machine quilt it. I am almost done finishing the borders on it. This is my first quilt large enough for my bed.
Most of my quilts are smaller for baby shower quilts or wall hangings. Although I did make a Fireman quilt for a young boy at church for his Twin bed. His mother purchased a print with firemen scenes and I cut squares out of it and checkerboarded it with grey. I machine quilted it with a corner to corner straight stitching.
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Oooh, Sheila!! We're going to need pics of your queen quilt!! When I am going to use a quilt for a bed, I get it professinally quilted, too. I figure it's stronger than any hand quilting I can do!
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Ivtwoqlt, your quilt sounds great and very interesting! Would love to see a pic of it even unfinished.
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I love to make little quilts. Call them wallhangings, centerpieces, doll quilts, whatever. I leave them lying around. I just like to look at them. Here are two of my faves:
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