Have oneyou ever "farmed out" your quilt piecing?
07-01-2011, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted by KyKat
My Mother-in-law was a quilter, and when she passed away, my sister-in-law gathered up all her quilting stuff and gave it to me because she knows I am a quilter. She loved applique, and in her projects, she had one where she had cut out 8 - 18" white squares, 8 flowers, and 32 leaves. There was one sample block in another color that I'm sure someone had done that she was using as a sample. Anyway, I couldn't let them go to waste, so I went ahead and appliqued them. Then I bought the pink flowered fabric and the green fabric in the pictures (they are not sewed together, they are just lying side-by-side) to set up the quilt with white. But there are 8 blocks. I have tried to put it together, and it makes a really awkward size for a quilt. I'm a really, really bad piecer, and since I have spent a long time with the applique, and I love to hand quilt and want to do a lot of intricate hand-quilting, so I want the quilt top to be done well. I wonder if any of you have ever had someone else do the piecing for you. I'm thinking about going to a quilt shop and finding someone to piece the top for me. That would be copping out, but I'd rather do that and have a nice piece at the end. What do you guys think?
07-01-2011, 09:01 AM
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I have no doubt that there are many who would be delighted to do the piecing on this great quilt. I think it's more important to have the finished product be what you want it to be, so if you get a little help, that's just wonderful!
07-01-2011, 10:17 AM
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No idea where you are in KY - but if you are near Mount Vernon check out the little quilt shop in the Renfro Valley Shops. I think you would be very pleased with her piecing, from what I have seen she does absolutely beautiful work.
07-01-2011, 12:16 PM
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Originally Posted by KyKat
Originally Posted by bearisgray
I like your choices of fabrics - and the applique work is lovely.
Have you done some "practice piecing"?
If you can guide your machine that nicely on the applique work, I would think you could learn to guide your machine on seam lines.
However, if you would rather NOT do that, it makes as much sense to have someone else piece it as to have someone else quilt it.
If I understood the narrative in one of Kaffe Fasset's books - he did the designing and someone else did all the piecing.
Have you done some "practice piecing"?
If you can guide your machine that nicely on the applique work, I would think you could learn to guide your machine on seam lines.
However, if you would rather NOT do that, it makes as much sense to have someone else piece it as to have someone else quilt it.
If I understood the narrative in one of Kaffe Fasset's books - he did the designing and someone else did all the piecing.
The applique is hand applique, not machine. I would much rather do hand work than machine. I love to hand quilt and my favorite thing to do is whole-cloth quilts, or quilts with large expanses of plain fabric that I can decorate with quilting.
I totally understand. I also love handquilting and wholecloth designs. I can do piecing but whenever I see applique quilt designs I just pass it over I know I'd never finish it, it would be stuffed in a closet corner waiting to decay since moths wouldn't eat cotton...LOL
Go for having someone who loves appliqueing and it makes them happy to do it finish the appliques and you can complete the heirloom for the family to enjoy seeing. Hugs and happy hand wholcloth quilting. :thumbup:
07-01-2011, 02:11 PM
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Originally Posted by Cherylsea
"I love to hand quilt and want to do a lot of intricate hand-quilting" Have you thought of adding plain white squares to the 8 applique - this would give you a canvas for your "intricate hand-quilting" and help balance out the size of your quilt. At least a quarter of the people on this Board send their quilts out to be quilted so I don't think you should worry about sending out the piecing!
Your MIL's blocks are lovely & so are your stitches!!!
07-01-2011, 03:41 PM
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Originally Posted by desertrose
Originally Posted by KyKat
Originally Posted by bearisgray
I like your choices of fabrics - and the applique work is lovely.
Have you done some "practice piecing"?
If you can guide your machine that nicely on the applique work, I would think you could learn to guide your machine on seam lines.
However, if you would rather NOT do that, it makes as much sense to have someone else piece it as to have someone else quilt it.
If I understood the narrative in one of Kaffe Fasset's books - he did the designing and someone else did all the piecing.
Have you done some "practice piecing"?
If you can guide your machine that nicely on the applique work, I would think you could learn to guide your machine on seam lines.
However, if you would rather NOT do that, it makes as much sense to have someone else piece it as to have someone else quilt it.
If I understood the narrative in one of Kaffe Fasset's books - he did the designing and someone else did all the piecing.
The applique is hand applique, not machine. I would much rather do hand work than machine. I love to hand quilt and my favorite thing to do is whole-cloth quilts, or quilts with large expanses of plain fabric that I can decorate with quilting.
I totally understand. I also love handquilting and wholecloth designs. I can do piecing but whenever I see applique quilt designs I just pass it over I know I'd never finish it, it would be stuffed in a closet corner waiting to decay since moths wouldn't eat cotton...LOL
Go for having someone who loves appliqueing and it makes them happy to do it finish the appliques and you can complete the heirloom for the family to enjoy seeing. Hugs and happy hand wholcloth quilting. :thumbup:
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