Has anyone here made a "puff" quilt? I saw a picture of one while surfing and thought it was adorable (and a great way to practice some hand stitching on a trip I'm taking). I'm gong to make a little QI bed - shouldn't take too long and it will be a fairly small quilt (QIs being 2 rather plump cats).
Looking around I've found 2 different suggestions for square sizes. A book I have says to make the bottom square 3.5 inches and the top 4 inches. Other instructions I've seen say the top square should be 1.5 times the size of the bottom. That's quite a difference.
I'll make both to see how they look but was wondering if anyone has experience with this - I'm thinking that different "puffs" may be more or less difficult to piece together later on... Any advice would be welcome!
Cutting the bottom piece ½" smaller should be just fine. Forget about the
1.5 times instruction. Making biscuit or puff quilts is fun. You'll enjoy it since you're only doing a plump QI bed. It is a little clumsy to get all of the biscuits stitched together but the kitties won't care if your matching is less than purrfect. Polly (sorry about that but I like to keep SpellCheck on its toes.)
"Steph" Has anyone here made a "puff" quilt? I saw a picture of one while
"Steph" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@s37g2000prg.googlegroups.com...
Are you sure it didn't say 1.5 *INCHES* larger than the base square? I made one of these for my niece's 'big girl bed', the size a crib mattress fits. She's now 38 so you can imagine how long ago that was. The top square was about 1.5 inches larger than the base. I also cut all the batting 'puff stuffers' out at one time, marking with a grid on the roll of batting so they were the same size. I do remember that you were supposed to cut a circle, gather the edges with a running stitch and put the batting in that to make a little ball to stuff the puff. I do know I just skipped that step altogether. I'd place the batting square on the base and pin the 4 corners of the top square to the base square. After all the puffs were pinned with four pins I started sewing the puff sandwich. I remember the directions said to gather the sides of each square. I just put two pleats in each side, tucking the batting to the center and hand basted the sides. I then sewed them up on the machine. I honestly don't remember ironing the seams so whether I did or not or how I couldn't tell. I used a flannel sheet for the back, stitched on top of the seam with a decorative daisy stitch (because there were little daisies in print, between the puffs, then trimmed the four sides and bound the little quilt. It really was darling, she loved it. It was a Raggedy Ann & Andy print material and I had centered the little doll print on each puff. That quilt had quite a life span. When she went to a twin bed it became a cushion to make a reading bench out of her toy chest...and had it's last days in a basket for her dog's bed.
I saw one (biscuit quilt) at the Southern Sewing Center last week and it was beautiful. All squares with nice colors and "puffy." I never made one. It reminded me of the old time quilts from my childhood in NY.
You don't want the "puffs" looking like a cook's hat. :^)
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