Jean there is, ME, I have yet to cut my first square or sew one either, just getting ready. But I can't wait, seems I keep getting set backs though. I have yet to go to bed, I am a diabetic and one of our chat members died and we have all been up all night worried and upset.
Jacqueline
Jacqueline
I have been reading your posts, and the responses to you--but then my pea brain forgot whether you were a total newbie or someone who used to quilt. Maybe we can be friends and share our newbie woes! :-)
Jean, I collect cookbooks, too and have over 2000 of them, Gosh, now I am collecting quilt books, I am for sure running out of room. I too am going to take over part of our living room and probably kitchen too.
Sounds like we have a lot in common.
Jacqueline
Jacqueline
Oh, too funny, and I will try to take your cautionary tale to heart. I assume there is info re thread in the FAQ--or I can google and find, er, threads on it.
Of course, I will have to restrain myself if I stick to cotton. I am already imagining some shiny fabric (not totally) to go with a theme in my bedroom....
I am lucky enough to live near Joanne's and another much larger fabric store. There also is a hobby store near here that has quite a large needlework section, some of which may be relevant....
Good ideas. Yes, I think it would be wise to start small--or I'll just totally intimidate myself. Maybe the crazy quit idea wasn't a good one. It seemed like it might be simpler, but maybe not.
Hmmm. I had not heard of applique. Wow! Your first efforts came out well. It's hard for me to see how much sewing they involved though. Maybe less is good at first?
Thanks, georg. I guess eventually the quilts would have different purposes, so I'll have to ponder what that dictates for each of them. One thing's for sure though: anything I produce should not be ultra-attractive to cats....
I am just going to start dyeing. God only knows what I'll come up with. Transferring images to cloth also looks interesting. I haven't tried some of the techniques I've seen online though--like using Citrisolve (sp?) or Bondex. Also, since I was originally thinking of shirts, which I still want to do, I haven't really looked at the fabric one can print on, so I don't know whether it's an appropriate size or composition for quilting.
Oh yes, I should add that one idea I've had in the back of my mind for a long time was to make a quilt from my old t-shirts....
Well, since I responded to virtually everyone, I thank you too!
Thanks, Leslie! BTW, your name is familiar--maybe from a cat group?
Everything I make has the cat hair already installed. :)
-georg
Howdy!
I used to hand-piece all my quilts. Here are a few pictures of beginning the piecing process, just taking those 2 squares, laying them right sides together, sewing a (mostly) straight seam along one side; I use handquilting thread as it is *strong* & doesn't need to be doubled on the needle:
I don't use templates, just cut the pattern pieces w/ the rotary cutter (most newer instructions include the seam allowance). If you can eyeball a 1/4" seam, good; if not, mark it.
You can do this, Jean B!!!
Oh, how sweet it is to get someone else involved in this addiction. LOL
Ragmop/Sandy --handquilter
Ahh, but from squares and rectangles comes a little quilt top! When I went to my first beginners class we made a 36" square quilt - Henny Penny in my Webshots album. It taught me how to choose fabric, how to cut it, how to put it together with a 1/4" seam so the seams matched, a bit of applique, and the final adding the batting, backing, simple quilting and binding.
After that I went on to do a King size sampler quilt.
Matching the seams can be a bit fiddly (so the corners of the squares line up). One of the secrets is to press the seams on the first piece to the left, and the second to the right. Then when you hold them between your finger and thumb prior to pinning, they just nestle together and magically line up (well almost always). The long quilters pins are best - you don't pin parallel to the edge, but at right angles to it, and if you are careful you can machine straight over the pins. (with the magic 1/4" seam.)
-- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)
. One thing's for sure though: anything I
Makes no difference - a Quilt Inspector is born, not made!
See my Webshots!
-- Sally at the Seaside ~~~~~~~~~~ (uk)
Jean-
Nope, you won't find me on a cat group. I have a sweet outdoor cat and I love her, but I am allergic to cats. I'm a dog-person who is owned by four of the sweetest, cuddliest and smartest canines you'll ever meet! You can see my HairyButt Gang on the link below... and my totally non-hairy Mr. Toad!
You will have to make some very hard quilts then. Most cats are attracted to nice soft quilts. Debra in VA See my quilts at
Sounds good to me. I am a total newbie. Although it is something I have planned on doing for years. Use to carry a quilting book for beginners with me eveywhere I went and had read it cover to cover but that was so long ago I have forgotten most of what I read. Then one day I was at the doctor's office and in the process of leaving the parking lot I apparently layed it on top of the car to unlock and it went bye-bye and that was the end of my quilting days then. But really shortly there after my mother became sick and I just didn't have the time to learn, losing that book didn't keep me from it.
Jacqueline
Leslie, Your gonna hafta change your siggy to: The Four Furbabies and One Unhairy One in MO
Butterfly
Oh, Jean, *now* you've re-opened a can of worms! ;) There are as many opinions on that as there are quilters. LOL! Personally, I prewash, but there are many who do not. Test religiously for bleeding? Nope, but I cross my fingers a lot.
I have a pretty new sewing machine that I love, but doing things by hand is also lots of fun in a totally different way. You have to choose which way you want to do each project; you can do some by hand, some by machine, and some in a combination of ways, if you choose. My DT began quilting a year or two ago, and she's doing it all by hand, since she doesn't have a SM where she's temporarily living in Beijing. It's all up to you! :)
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