ta da - oriental quilt top finished

it's actually for the class I'm attending at the moment, I decided I needed to do a class, being entirely self taught, so as I live opposite a JoAnns, their course made the most sense, the project this time is "Quilt Interupted" from Phenomenal Fat Quarter Quilts by M'Liss Rae Hawley. I actually think this quilt is too hard for a beginner class and too non traditional, it looks like you've done quarter square triangle blocks and set them diagonally with sashing, but it's actually a block composed of 2 triangles with a strip down the middle, stitching bias to grain. It's not massively difficult either, but doesn't really teach some desireable skills such as strip piecing, or quick/accurate triangle methods, I'm pretty bright and can follow instructions from a book pretty easily, so the class has given me a lot of confidence, and I have made another quilt along side the class quilt in the last couple of weeks, and feel I can move on to almost anything. I think a better class quilt would have been a sampler with some of the common blocks in it, so you could start with the basics then learn some shortcuts and so on.

Being slightly insane, I've decided to quilt this with gold thread! (It's logical, the fabrics are oriental red/green/blue, with gold detail).

I haven't taken a picture of it as I have no where to put a picture, any suggestions for good online photo albums, my parents are nagging me to put up some photos of the children!

Anne

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Anne Rogers
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Joanna

Hi Anne,

I use

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and don't have any problems with that. There are others, google photo websites and see what else comes up. Looking forward to seeing your quilt.

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Maloney Empire

The one I use is Yahoo Photos. Please be a dear and fiind one to post that beautiful oriental quilt! I am enamoured of that lovely fabric and would love to see it.

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Boca Jan

Anne Rogers wrote:

I quilted two quilts for friends and used silver metallic thread to do a portion of the quilting. I have three different metallics -- Sulky, Madeira and Coats and the Coats is the one that ended up working the best! If you try out different metallics, remember to buy just one spool of each at first. I bought several spools of the Sulky -- I had been using their rayon for embroidery and it worked fine -- when I first started the quilting and it didn't work so I had to return the unused stuff which is P.I.T.A. -- LOL. When I returned that stuff, I bought one spool of Madeira to try. When *that* didn't work, I dug through my stash and found the spools of Coats metallic silver I had and it worked! I think this is worth repeating -- when using specialty threads, you often get the best machine quilting results by having your specialty thread set up AWAY from your machine -- not on the regular spool spindle. Metallic and specialty threads like metallics and rayon need to unwind and relax a bit before going through your machine. To do this, you can use a large coffee cup sitting up high next to the machine. Put some sort of "stick" (a wooden skewer works and many of us already have a package of them) through the hole in the thread spool and then rest it across the top of the cup so the thread spool is suspended over the inside of the cup. It helps if you set the cup up at a height even with your machine's spool spindle. I'm lucky -- I got myself a multi spool holder for my Janome sewing & embroidery machine. The holder is attached to the back of the machine and will hold eight or ten spools of thread with thread guides that are just above the top of the machine! AS for photos, I have used Webshots for several years and haven't had any problems. As someone else said, there are loads of places available. Let us know when you get photos of the quilt up, OK? I would LOVE to see it :-). CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

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Tia Mary

And remember the metallica (or other named needle for metallics) needle. This helps a lot, too. . In message , Tia Mary writes

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Patti

Great advice, Patti!!! Unfortunately for me, for some reason I have never been able to figure out, my machine will not sew at all if I try using the special needle for metallic thread! Same goes for the machine embroidery needles! My machine came with specialty needles -- ones made by Janome for Janome sewing machines. The silly machine will not work with them -- go figure! And by "not work" I mean just that -- the threaded needle will not pick up the bobbin thread. My older machines all use the specialty needles just fine but not the Janome -- LOL! Of course, it's worth the money to buy the specialty needle and try it out if you are stitching with specialty threads. CiaoMeow >^;;^< PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

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Tia Mary

Anne, I made an Oriental wallhanging for my mom and thought about using metalic thread. After a couple frustrating beginnings, I ended up using a gorgeous gold rayon thread. It was soft and supple and very easy to use and looked every bit as good as a metalic. Better, I think. Since then, I have eliminated metalics from consideration for anything other than small, splashy stuff. I just use the rayon threads in the various colors. I've used Sulkey and Coats-Clark both and both have worked well. Anyhow, just my two pennies worth.

Sunny, dying to see the quilt you finished!

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Sunny

I have a Janome, I don't think I've ever used a Janome needle in it, other than the original one! Though today I have been having the problem you describe, but only in free motion quilting, it's fine for piecing and quilting in the ditch! I guess if I countinue to have problems, buying Janome needles may well be the next step!

The metallic thread is none of the brands you mention, I think it's something like "Robinson and Anton", but the spool is downstairs and I'm not going to check right now! I've been told it sews like regular thread and is the best mettalic about, I had to order it specially! I've just bought a pack of quilting needles to see if that helps my free motion problems.

ooh, hubbie just walking into the room with the sewing machine bag, so I can check the thread name! Almost right, Robison & Anton, I need to practice with normal thread, so then when I switch to the gold, if it goes different, I'll know it's the thread, then I'll try the tricks you mentioned.

Anne

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Anne Rogers

I want to see!!! Get a Webshots account, as I'm sure others have suggested. Free, and lots of us use it.

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TerriLee in WA (state)

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