Stitching the pieces together
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This is the top of a quilt my friend is making for me.
She will probably have the borders on by now. Can't wait to see that.0 -
That's beautiful, Alyson.
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Blessings - that looks amazing! I would love to go to a class and learn how to do it.
Alyson - that is going to be a very pretty quilt.0 -
Oh, fer cryin’ out loud!!!!
I had a post on here describing the “Watercolor” technique….and now POOF!!!! It’s GONE!!!
Anyway, MostlySew and Meece - The watercolor quilts and/or wall hangings are made using a fusible backing called “Quilt Fuse”. It has a 2” grid printed on it.
Because I am purchasing a kit, my 2” fabric squares have already been selected and precut. The kit includes a diagram of exactly where to place each square.
You place all your squares on the grid according to the diagram, then fuse them in place with your iron.
Once all the squares have been fused on, you then start folding the material – right sides together – and start sewing ¼” seams down each vertical column. After that, you start folding and stitching across each horizontal row.
Here is a Youtube video of the technique using a June Tailor product. I’m getting a Whims kit, but their video isn’t as good. I’m not sure the Whims instructions call for clipping the seam allowances, either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_ouaGvIno0
Once the squares have been fused and stitched, you have the best of both worlds – corners that match up perfectly, and a sturdy quilt that can be washed and used regularly!
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Alyson – that is definitely a labor of love! How wonderful to have a friend make something so pretty for you….. please be sure to post pics of the finished quilt!!
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I returned from a three day Serger class yesterday. It was taught by Sue Green Baker and was fabulous. It was the best sewing, crafting class I have ever taken. She was exceptionally well organized, even the fabrics for the samples were in daily packets in the order they would be used. Her class guides were filled with large photos of techniques that are very useful.
Sue travels all the time and will be in Tacoma Wa tomorrow and then to Granville Texas after that. I will be going on line and buying her books as soon as I post this note.
I feel recharged and loved spending the time with my classmates. It was a lot of fun. I slept 11 hours each night after class I was so worn out!
I hope you are all having fuin sewing or deciding what to take on next.
Hugs Ginger
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Blessings, thanks so much for reposting the instructions....the process makes more sense now.
Allyson, that is going to be one beautiful quilt.....looks like the pattern lens itself to lots of interpretation. Hmmmm....I need a "non-baby" baby quilt. This,ought fit the bill...
Ginger, glad you enjoyed the class, what fun.0 -
Blessings, the hardest part is cutting the seam allowance without cutting into the stitch line and then folding it the opposite way! Also, the piece starts out WAY bigger than it finishes!!! It's VERY stiff and hard to keep flat. I was disappointed when I tried it about 10 years ago and am surprised that the special fabric is still being made!!
Gorgeous quilt Alyson!!!!!!!!
So Ginger, what are you going to use your serger for now? I dreamed last night that I was teaching again and there were no supplies for me and it was my own store again!!!! People began to leave....sigh!
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Alyson,it's a wonderful quilt even without the borders. Hope to see a photos when it's finished.
Blessings 20, can't wait to see your project when you get going on it. You'll show us pictures, won't you?
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I can see that the backing would add to the heaviness, but would it lie flat as a wall hanging?
I get it!
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Meece, it's not heavy, the backing is light. It's because it's folded so many times and the seams are kind of bulky. It's folded every 2" all the way down, then the seams are snipped and it's folded the across every 2". VERY bulky, but we'll wait to hear if it's still as bad as it was years ago.
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O.K., lots of ladies brought their "watercolor" projects to class this morning!
I was amazed at the variety of fabrics they used.
The fusible backing is SO light you can hardly tell it's on there. No bulk at all!!!
None of the ladies clipped any of their seams.
Once the seams were sewn and pressed, the projects laid completely flat and were very light. AND - they looked wonderful, as all the corners were completely matched up!
My kit should be here tomorrow...this is one project I might actually finish!!!
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I'm intrigued.
I actually finished the two pillows for DS and repaired one for myself. It's trim was reveling, so I sewed it all back on nicely. I finished two projects today! Can you believe it?
Yesterday I went to mom's to practice doing applique on her embroidery machine. I now have the concept down and look forward to making something specific with it.
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Meece, keep on that roll!!!
Blessings, I can't see how they can fold the fabric the opposite way without cutting the seams! I will be interested to hear how you do.
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Went to LA yesterday and quickly stopped by the fashion district (the fabric district in particular) and picked up a tailor's ham. My ex threw mine away and I have been without one for years. I am trying to build up my dressmaking supplies once more. I have a "dressing gown" that has been cut out for years. I mean that wouldn't be out of fashion. I think I will make it soon so as to get yet one more project finished.
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Barbe - from what they were telling me, they sewed each vertical column with a quarter inch seam, and pressed all the seams going in one direction.
Then they started on the horizontal rows, stitching them with a quarter inch seam, and making sure the seams on the columns stayed going in the same direction.
When they were done, they pressed all the horizontal rows in the same direction.
The finished piece was quite a bit smaller (all those quarter inch seams add up!) but all the intersections of vertical and horizontal seams laid perfectly flat.
They weren't clipped and pressed in opposing directions like the June Tailor video showed, but it looked just fine anyway... AND it saved a lot of time.
This is all according to my friends. Who knows what will happen when I get my kit and start it!!!!
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That makes sense Blessings!! I warned you the project goes small! That's what I said when you said you were going to get a small kit...hehehehehe Can't wait to see pics.
Meece, I'm not a garment sewer, but surely I could do a housecoat? I want to do a funky jacket of some sort as I have all these huge rolls of a crushed velvet type embroidered tone-on-tone fabric.....
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Boy everyone is busy. I managed to get my sewing machine out and work on some craft items this weekend. My church is planning a bazaar this year and I have several ideas for small gifts. I am making samples to show the chairwoman to see if she thinks I should make more. When I was on vacation I purchased a pattern for a basket that is made out of four coordinating 'layer cake' precut pieces (10" square) and a pattern for a fabric pocket tissue holder with a pocket to put the used tissues. I also get emails from allfreesewing.com that has cute ideas in some of them. Basically they put links to blogs for sewing ideas, some of them are crafts. I got ideas to make a washable duster out of polar fleece that fits on the 'swiffer' handle and a fabric holder for a small hand sanitizer bottle that hangs from your pocketbook strap.
Sheila
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Here are two of the tissue holders. I used some scrap batik fabrics for these.
Sheila
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Great ideas, Sheila.
When I was young my mother subscribed to a little magazine called "Workbasket" It seems to me there was a section in each issue of ideas for bazaars. My mother still has many of the issues. I loved the embroidery transfers.
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I am busy making things for my church bazaar that will be in Sept or Oct. I finished up about a dozen baby bibs for our nursery that has had a sudden influx of new babies this last few weeks. Also some easy table runners that use all that large print and stripped material I had built up in my stash. Finally got my sewing/craft room re-organized after the last round of having so many projects going at the same time. Trying to stick to one at a time, but not sure how long that will last.
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Went through more boxes in the garage today, I have a couple of plastic totes full of fabric scraps. I need to find some projects to use some of them on.
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Scrap quilts can use up a lot of fabric pieces.
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I need to do something to at least get my small scraps used up.
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Meece: do you have a LUMBERYARD?
I had no idea what my quilting friends were talking about when they used that term, but apparently many of them take their smaller scraps and cut them into rectangles that are 2" x 4". Two by fours, get it?
There are all sorts of easy blocks to make with pieces this size.
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Some women at a craft fair had package tags and tiny cards using even smaller scraps.
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Both good ideas.
Started my first applique for baby-who's quilt. It will take a lot of tiny pieces, but that won't even put a dent in my scraps.
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Making a log cabin quilt with light/dark strips is a good way to use up scraps as you can use one-ofs. There is no repeat necessary. I guess you would go into your lumberyard to get the wood for your log cabin?
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My sewing friends--I've been sewing up a storm with my camp quilts. Of course, I've been picking out mistakes with my seam ripper. My old, very experienced seam ripper. On some quilting blog I recently read that seam rippers get dull! Now blow me away! I change my needle freqently, clean the bobbin case at least once per project, but never thought about that handy-dandy seam ripper! So I bought 2 new ones. What a difference that has made! That's my story.
Happy sewing, cutting logs and building log cabins. Jan
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I have many seam rippers and although they get dull, I just buy a new one but never through the bad ones out. I've thought about how I could actually sharpen one. Like I should be spending time doing that.
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I cut a lot of mine into strips which I can use to make bindings, strip quilts, or cut into smaller squares or rectangles. If they are too small for that then I cut them into 2x4s or 2.5x4.5. I try to keep like colors together so I have a lot of baggies with strips or squares and make the size on the baggie.
I have the same problem with seam rippers, I bet I have close to 20! most of which are very dull. I still have the first one my mother gave me when I first started using a machine to sew with when I was about 5 on one of those little red Singer machines that has the hand crank. My #3 granddaughter has it now in her room as a "just to look at" antique! Her mother has gotten her interested in collecting antiques, mostly toys, that she just looks at and does not play with. She does not want to get them broken. My goodness, if I did not break it then it is indestructible! I loved to take things apart then put them back together again when I was her age.
Take care everyone. AJ
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