Hi
Welcome from Bucketty, NSW
...Fran...
Hi
Welcome from Bucketty, NSW
...Fran...
G'morning Lynn ... and welcome to RCTQ! :^)
I'm almost ready to throw some fresh blueberry muffins into the oven. Grab a seat .... ummmm .... maybe leave the rotary cutter at the door.
I dunno what to make of pressing your mat. Here ... let me pour you some java. It'll help wake us both up.
Quilting-as-you-go is actually pretty simple, although I'm not the bestest one at trying to explain how it's done. I do remember one of our RCTQ'ers has posted pix of this particular process, and I'm sure you'll be pointed in that direction soon. I'm kind'a assuming you're mentally envisioning each seam of a quilt to be quilted as you go. Actually, you stitch the quilt top together in sections, and these sections are then Q-A-Y-G. You could have two, three, four, or even five or more sections with this method.
One little trick I like, that helps to reduce the bulk, is the way I place my batting. I start by overlapping the edges, about 1-1/2 inches. Then I'll pull each edge apart, in half. The edge that's "on top", I'll cut away the bottom portion of the half I pulled apart. The edge that's on "bottom", I'll cut away the top portion. This edge will now have the same thickness as the rest of the batting, because I've just done away with half the bulk.
Now I've gotta' go get those muffins in! :^)
DeB Shaw Queen of the *Northern*Lights*
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Do join the fun! I joined the group long before I made my first real quilt: I wanted to get it right as it was for my son, so I came here and got the best advice in the world.
I'll swap some of our heat for your cold!
Welcome, Lynn! Of course you may join, that's what we're here for. To help each other FINISH. Finished is good. Right guys?
Karen, Queen of Squishies
hi Lynn, just tagging on pollys post, lol. i'll bet wellingtons library system is online, you can see what books are in the system and order them to your nearest branch. yep its cold the last couple days up here too, wet, windy and wild, heck we thought it was wellington weather you lot sent up our way. :D just kidding. another idea might be to join the nearest quilting guild. they will have a good size library of quilting books you can borrow from meeting to meeting each month. i've found they have the best selection of books on every aspect of quilting and all those quilters at the meetings too. ya just cant go wrong. someone there will surely be able to explain things in person if we cant do it for ya here. as i recall qayg is when you sandwich and quilt a block at a time or a small unit of blocks at a time. a size thats easy to manage on your lap and join the top seams, gently zigzag big stitches by hand over the butted (or overlapped 50/50) batting, then join the back seams by hand, then just bind the whole lot and voila!! welcome aboard the bestest cyberquiltingframe in the whole wide world!!! i'm off to bed now i think as i'm knackered will see if i can find some pix online for ya tomorrow morning. night night. jeanne* bhb, auckland, nz :)
If lack of completed quilts makes you ineligible, half of us would be booted off! I haven't tried the quilt as you go method, so I can't help you there, sorry. As for the iron, have you tried heating it up, then running it over plain brown paper, like grocery bags? (Are grocery bags made of brown paper in NZ?)
Welcome to the group! We're getting almost as many NZers as we have Central NC USAers!
hehe, there are some long time members here who haven't yet completed a quilt, either, so welcome to the group.
now ...the important stuff....favourite colours, type of chocolate??
Welcome to you from Plano Texas. I have only been in this group for 4 or 5 months. There is a wealth of information and good feelings here. I look forward to reading the posts everyday.
-- Sugar & Spice Quilts by Linda E
Hi Lynn! Of course you are 'eligible to participate' ... as soon as you have your choice of chocolate vetted. Just send a couple pounds to my Palace here in Virginia, USA. I'll let you know. Tough job, but I sacrifice for the NG.
Half Demented? Good, you'll fit in very well. Cut off tassels? SAVE them ... eventually someone (Krysia?) will pop up with her own unique comments on tassels. LOL
PAT >
Welcome to the best quilting group in the world. Im biased, but that doesnt make it any the less true! Diana
Hi Lynn, and welcome to the group. It is not exactly "quilt as you go", but you might want to pick up a copy of "Divide and Conquer: Quilt it Your Way". This is a great book. They show you four methods of quilting the top in pieces then assembling. The book also has instructions for several spectacular quilts.
Mardi
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Hi Lynn! And Welcome to the group. If every newbie was ineligible to hang around here, we'd never get any new quilters! Of *course* you can participate!
I started quilting with the QAYG method, which is explained quite nicely in Georgia Bonesteel's books on lap quilting. If you can get one or more of those (especially the earlier ones), you'll see exactly what to do. However, if you can't, here's a very basic explanation:
It all sounds terribly complicated, but it's really not; I did lots of quilts this way before I began quilting an entire top at once. You also have the option of putting blocks together into sections before quilting them and then treating each section as I outlined above. HTH!
Hullo Lynn and welcome I believe the kind lady who put up the pictures to illustrate the quilt as you go is Julia from MN. (Hope I've got the state right) I have to say, I am never going to do a large quilt in one piece ever again. I did a very small wallhanging with this method, just to see how to do it, and it is terrific. The seams are not bulky, and I was lucky with my choice of fabrics - it even looks lovely on the back!! . In article , Lynn Tocker writes
G'day! And I'm just tagging on nzl*'s post - my computer had a burping fest last night so I lost your original post. Welcome to the wonderful world of RCTQ - may you spend many happy years here with us!
Hi Fran,
Thanks for the welcome, it's really lovely to have found the group :-) Lynn
Hi DeB
Thanks for the tip on reducing bulk with batting, which I've just printed out. Those muffins were delicious :-) Lynn
Hi Janner in cloudy Cornwall!!
At the risk of sounding a complete dork, what does QI stand for please? My favourite chocolate is a Terry's Dark Chocolate Orange, which you have to tap to get it apart, then ration out by the hour. But then, I do like Marzipan Logs, which are either German or Swiss and rare as hens teeth. Really, all chocolate has a good chance of my adoring it, none is ever turned away. :-) Lynn
Hello Polly, Thanks for the info on the book, which I will pursue through the Library on-line site. I've decided to have a good look around the bookshops tomorrow, just in case there's a copy lurking somewhere. Feel very cheered by the humour and warm atmosphere generated by all you lovely people, -a big Thank You. :-) Lynn
Hi nzl,
So, this group has jaffas eh? :-) Thanks for your suggestions. The only quilting group around here meets up on a Thursday morning, when I am working :-(. There are lessons available, but the people I've talked with about them, have said they learnt more from books!! Will have to see how I go. A lady in Spotlight today, told me I should have more confidence.....I told her, 'I have the confidence, - just woefully lacking in the practical skills AT THE MOMENT' This will change, hopefully, fast, now, immediately...Whew! Lynn
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