Using leftover fabric.

You are more ambitious than I

Yes, she shall be known as "Off Shore Flo", the sailors delight.

John

I'll bring construction paper and paste.......the Elmer's School stuff, of course, it's OK to eat.

;) Val

We will visit you at the asylum, John, and bring you some crayons. Do you think you would prefer primaries or fluorescents? Never mind. We'll ask your wife; that is, of course, if her cell phone works okay on the cruise lines. Polly

At the Houston IQF, some quilters from Japan displayed quilts made with 1/4" hexagons that measured as much as 150" by 150" square. They were quite spectacular. No way I'd ever have the patience to do that; it wore me out just thinking about it. :)

I am currently piecing a top which will contain a total of 5832 pieces, and doing it 100% by hand. (The only 'modern' thing I do with quilting is using a rotary cutter.) I will also do all the quilting and binding by hand. If you're a crazy person, I suppose that I am, too. However, there are probably quite a few of us out there, so don't worry about it!

And wasn't there a guy in the 1930's who made a quilt with about 150,000 pieces in it? It was in QNM a few years back...

John, I have one block, a diamond, finished size 4" point to point short ways, and 7" point to point long ways that has 45 pieces in it. My "Dear Jane" quilt has way more than 5,000 pieces in it, and will finish about 80"+ x80"+. (50 some odd of those pieces are the solid fabric triangles in the borders, and 4 are the border strips......... the smallest pieces are half square triangles that finish at about 1/4" on the short sides.)

There are many, many quilts made with thousands of tiny pieces. If you search for "Grace McCance Snyder" you can see pictures of a quilt that she made. The name of the quilt is "Petit Point Baskets" and it has

Have fun and think about a lot of the history behind quilts made with tiny scraps and such.

Pati, in Phx

John wrote:

I have a hard time holding onto those tiny pieces, much less piecing them together. How do you get your sewing machine to accept and sew a seam on a half-square triangle that finishes at 1/4"? Insane assylum sounds pretty good to me as an alternative to even trying something like that.

But you have my utmost admiration and respect, and .... could I please have the quilt cuz they won't let you keep it in the "home".

Sunny

I have just finished sewing up 350 blocks of one, two color batch of fabric pieces. I agree with you about the difficulty of piecing small stuff together. In the past I had used the chain stitching method for joining colored patches into strips and then cutting out the different pieces into various multiple square sets that were joined into a block such as nine patch or four patch or whatever combo I was working with. This is a piece by piece joining process that is much more tedious and therefore challenges my patience. I spent 1/2 of a day yesterday doing the piecing of these two colors endlessly with no variation. Today, I will do another days piecing of a similar but different set of colors, and so on day after day for most of the next three weeks. This is now my life and with the advent of better weather here in Central Ohio I will be even more challenged to keep at it. It is not surprising that I can stay focused here in the land of the foul winters when you don't dare venture outside without good purpose. As to the use of the quilt in question in the asylum, I think I will donate it to the Inmates Relief Fund for Wayward Quilters. I figure it will bring a pretty penny as a cautionary tale of being careful what you wish for.

John

ROFL! I've made quite a few scrappy quilts. Lots with teensy pieces. Gave DD2 a queen-size bowtie for Christmas, each 12" block made of 36 bowties (5 bits for each bowtie), and there were 42 blocks. You can do the math. I don't do that sort of math at all. This particular quilt started as a hand-piecing project to take along, and it took probably 3 years to do all the piecing. (Sewed the little squares into blocks on the machine.) If I worried about how many pieces it took, I'd never start it. I cut scraps as they became available from other projects. Lots of kind friends sent me their scraps. The quilt contains every imaginable color. And there was no deadline, because its purpose was to use up little scraps and provide me with a hand project! Many other quilts got finished while this one was under way. So I'm interested to see if you really do finish it any time soon :-) Enjoy the process as much as the product. Roberta in D, Queen of the Scrap Heap (Currently working on another 1000 Pyramids with no deadline)

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Uh oh, does this mean I shouldn't save those 1.5 inch strips anymore?... ;-)

I used the calculator that is so helpfully provided on my computer and got a grand total... do you really want to know what it is? *VBEG*