Never qilted before HELP
#31
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: other side of the black stump, Perth Western Australia
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I just watched simply quilts every morning (and still do!) read anything i could get my hands on from buying magazines and borrowing from the library. Learnt so much from the talented people on this forum :D .
I did simple blocks first to get cutting accurate and piecing accurate..do a simple nine patch first or a quilt as you go.. these are things i did first to build up my skills so I wouldnt get discouraged when i found things too hard. I made small wallhangings first and then baby blankets to practice things like binding etc so i wouldnt waste heaps of fabric making mistakes.
At the moment i am making a baby quilt with disappearing 9 patch pattern and in between i am also making a drunkards path. i take my time and dont rush. These are all things that worked for me. Hope you work out all your issues and above all enjoy quilting.
I did simple blocks first to get cutting accurate and piecing accurate..do a simple nine patch first or a quilt as you go.. these are things i did first to build up my skills so I wouldnt get discouraged when i found things too hard. I made small wallhangings first and then baby blankets to practice things like binding etc so i wouldnt waste heaps of fabric making mistakes.
At the moment i am making a baby quilt with disappearing 9 patch pattern and in between i am also making a drunkards path. i take my time and dont rush. These are all things that worked for me. Hope you work out all your issues and above all enjoy quilting.
#33
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Zimbabwe at present UK
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Hi thanks so much for you message ,I have got the machine, I went for a 5 hour lesson on friday the 31st on paper piecing, but the truth is I am struggling and also I am really David my wife is Paula and she bought me the husqvarna,as I was a motor mechanic all my life but last year january I broke both my rotator cuffs and tore some muscles and they are beyond repair,so no heavy stuff for me.My Mom was a great dress maker and as a kid I would help her un pick or some times put up hems fort her ,so in honour of her memory I am trying,though I must say she never quilted,I know she would have loved it,I do not remember hearing of quilting in Rhodesia those days.
Sorry if I got carried away
David Hattingh
Sorry if I got carried away
David Hattingh
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