Stitching the pieces together
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VERY weird Meece!!! My room at that age was pink walls with a RED rug!!!!!! What WERE our mother's thinking?? Yep, my sister got yellow walls with a green rug!!! She is one year older.
There are now sergers that thread themselves. They've been out for a while, so they'd have all the glitches out. They thread with air. Seriously. AND they work!! VERY appropriate for those of us who's eyesight is getting dimmer. Have a blast at your class Ginger!
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I can only imagine stuffing it into the washing machine and dryer every week when I laundered the sheets. It would begin to fade and wear I would think.
Oh, that is weird, Barbe! My sister is nearly 5 years older. I got her handme downs. Just thin khow I looked in her mid 70s polyester hiphugger pantsuits four yras later! No wonder I got the reputation of being so uncool!
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Ok, so I got a pink bedroom as a surprise when I was 10 too...however, being the end of the 50's at the time, I didn't get any red....just pink, pink, pink and a little while here and there.....oh, and my sister and I continued to share that room for another couple of years until,she got my brothers......brown and white....
Gingerbrew, your class sounds just great. I'm sure it will get you back in the swing of things, not to mention fun. Yes, I got lighter weight Velcro although mom claims it will come undone. I don't think it will. Oh, and I did think of two zippers, but the longest I could find were 22" and this thing needs to be 69" wide....so, since my head is swimming....I'm going with Velcro.....if I can get my cat to get off long enough to sew, that is.0 -
Barbe, she took two sets of King size sheets, cut the flat sheets to make the ruffle skirt, sewed the ruffle on one fitted sheet at the top edge of where the mattress edge is, the second fitted sheet is used to cover the down comforter. Doing it this way, you couldn't tuck the flat sheet in between the mattress and box springs, although I don't tuck my top sheet in, it just comes untucked when my hubby is home.
It could be done by putting the ruffled fitted sheet on the box spring and put another fitted sheet on the mattress so the bottom one wouldn't be washed as frequently as the top fitted sheet. A traditional bed skirt is made with a flat fabric that is cut the size of the box springs and the skirt sewed on the two long sides and one short side, either ruffled or flat box pleats at the corners, this is then put between the mattress and box springs.
Sheila
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Barbe, that is exactly what we are sewing on. BabyLock Evolution. I look forward to it.
Thanks for the good wishes.
Ginger
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Ginger, I have a BabyLock Evolution and I love, love, love it. I use the wave stitch as a decorative edge on a lot of things. Sure beats trying to actually hem everything. It can take on many different looks depending on the colors and placement of the threads. I know you will enjoy the class. Have lots of fun.
On the sampler quilt that I did, I did not like the applique that they had so I made my own little bluebird. If anyone wants the pattern for that applique just let me know and I will email it to you. AJ
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Sheila, your first paragraph keeps me confused still, but I get the seond one as that is normal. I understood her sewing instructions but does that mean the ruffle is attached to the fitted sheet on the mattress? As we've been saying, wouldn't it get washed to much?
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Okay, now I have another hygiene question about that set... It indicates that you slip the fitted sheet over the duvet, so the actual duvet is against your skin, right? Looks pretty but not too functional. I do like the instruction on how to attach a ruffle to the fitted sheet and will most likely use that method when dealing with the guest bedroom.
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Oh, heck...I got so tired of wrestling the bedskirt off my King-sized Tempurpedic mattress, I just bought some of those cheap, elasticized bedskirts from Miles Kimball or one of those cheesy catalogs.
The skirts are ruffled, come in different colors, and are elasticized so that you just slide them over the bed, mattress and all. I use a few quilt basting pins to keep them in place, and when it's time for a wash (which I do frequently) all I have to do is unpin them and pull them off. Takes less than a minute.
I've thought about putting another bed (Queen sized) on risers...I have an elasticized bedskirt on there, too. In that case, I would just add a row of lace or other fabric around the bottom to make sure it came all the way to the floor.
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I agree that if you put the ruffle on the fitted sheet that is on the mattress, it would get washed too much. I would put the fitted sheet with the ruffle on the box springs or just make it like a normal bed skirt and not wash it as much as the sheets on the top. I had a bed skirt on my old bed (full size) when I up sized my bed to a Queen size, I bought some flat eyelet lace (about 25" wide) to make a ruffled bed skirt but haven't gotten to it yet, and I got the mattress about 4 years ago. My sister said she would help me (she used to work at West Point Stevens making samples of bed skirts, curtains, valences and such) but we have both been too busy to get it done.
Sheila
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I generally buy my bed-skirts and then take a seam down the middle to make it fit so the ugly edge of where the ruffle meets the part that fits between the mattress and box springs does not show. When I do make my own I use a flat sheet and lay it over the top of the box spring and mark where the top edge and the bottom corners are then trim it to just allow for the seam allowance the gather the ruffle material around the edge. That seems to be the easiest way for me to make it fit perfectly. AJ
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I LOVE those elasticized bedskirts!!! What a brilliant idea, but not my colours at all.
Sheila, two adults in a double bed have less personal space than a baby in a crib!! You and your DH must have slept on top of each other!! (but I do know he was out of town a lot, so....
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Too funny, Barbe!
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Elisimo, your quilt looks like it would be fun to cuddle under ... fluffy and warm with interesting patterns and color combinations to explore.
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Granellie - thank you for the compliment. I gave it to my a very dear friend that used to live close to us, but has move several hours away from here for her birthday. Her adult children were fighting over who was going to get to cover up with it when we were there at Thanksgiving.
Barbe - I love your sense of humor. You crack me up girl.
Thank you to everyone that had been following my fb page concerning Kendall, DGD#1. I appreciate all of you here that have given so much love, many prayers and faithful support of my family during this time.
Joy and blessings. AJ
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AJ - Not on Facebook but prayers for your DGD. Hope she has turned the corner. So scary.
I, too, love the color of your quilt. I admire all of you that are truly able to sew. I just dabble in craft stuff. You gals would be the ones I would take to the boonies to keep me warm and clothed.
I never had the pink/red bedroom. We rented mostly until I was in high school though I did have a canopy bed.
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I had a pink and white bedroom when I finally got a room of my own in the 9th grade. But at least I insisted on a cherry pink. I was so glad to not have to share with my little brother any more I didn't make much of a fuss.
Haven't posted here before, I don't sew but am fascinated by quilting since I was a kid so I come here to see your beautiful work.
I wish I still had the quilt my Grandma made for Dad when he was a boy. It would be about a hundred years old by now. Dad claimed he had helped card the wool for the batting when he was 5 yrs old. It was what she called the log cabin pattern, made with strips of fabric left over from making the families clothing. Unfortunately when I was away at college Mom let my brother use it one especially cold winter and he would never give it back.
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I have one my great grandmother made. It's about 120 yrs old. Her first child died in infancy and she made it between his death and the birth of the next child. I imagine it was drenched in tears many times.
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Wren, I imagine they were used to losing children in those days....so very, very sad....
Welcome to my world chabba!!!!
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My mother has my great grandmothers quilt, a Grnadmother's Garden. I think I posted pic a year or so ago. My GGM made it when she had cancer. Trying to keep her mind off of it.
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Meece - you are probably right about quilting to keep her mide off of her cancer. I don't ever think about my having cancer while I am quilting. I am usually thinking about who will be using the particular quilt that I am working on.
I wish I had some of my GGM's quilts, but she had so many children and they all got the quilts and now of them have made it past the next generation.
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I don't know how to approach my mother, but I'd like to have that quilt passed to me. My sister has a quitling business, and I am afraid mother willl think she should get alll the quilts.
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I'd just tell her that because of your own journey with BC, that quilt has a special place in your heart and you would love to be it's custodian.
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Ladies - has anyone done a "watercolor" quilt?
You take 2" squares in light, medium, and dark prints, and fuse them to a grid...("Quilt Fuse")
Then you stitch the grid horizontally and vertically. At that point, you could be done if you had formed the squares into a pattern, such as a heart.
OR - you could go one step further and applique on top of the squares, using them as a shaded background.
That's our next class project, and - famous as I am for never completing anything - I think I'm going to order the smallest kit I can find online so I don't have much to do!!!!
Plain watercolor quilt or wall hanging: (OBVIOUSLY not done by me!!!)
Watercolor quilt or wall hanging with applique: (Again, NOT mine!)
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Love that type of pattern, Beautiful.
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That is a neat concept.
I am getting ready to start the new "baby who's" quilt. Haven't figured out just what I want to do.
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Those are beautiful!
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I saw one in a quilt store that looked like a Monet painting. Absolutely gorgeous.
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Blessings.....you mean the whole thing is fused and not stitched? All this time I thought people were stitching tons of little squares and making it come out straight! While boring, this looks doable to me.....
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If it is all fused then is it decorative only?
I made DS2 a couple of occasional pillows for his sofa today. He doesn't know it, but he needed some color on the couch!
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