How did you learn how to quilt?
05-15-2011, 08:46 PM
#141
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My mom taught me. She made quilts for both my sisters but i had to make my own. So now i get to inherit her stash. I just have to make sure when the time comes i get to it before my sisters throw it out.
05-16-2011, 02:39 AM
#147
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Originally Posted by oldbalt99
Each year my mom sewed two sets of clothes for her eight children. Five sets play clothes, school clothes for winter and summer. She had enough material to make a new set on demand. One day At Thirteen I decided to do something with the smaller strips that would never make a set of clothes. And my very first scrap quilt was started. Seeing I was serious about finishing something, my mom taught me how to start and finish a stitch without a knot. She taught me how to use a sewing machine when I was five, and which included color matching, material care and the evils of a tracing wheel. Still when I started putting those scraps together she to straight of grain and scraps. When the top was finished, she gave me a history lessons on quilts and added that when her mother put her quilts together she used ties, or knots, as she names them. I loved my grandmother so I specialize in tied quilts.
I hope I did this right here are two pictures of quilts and they are both tied.
I hope I did this right here are two pictures of quilts and they are both tied.
05-16-2011, 08:54 AM
#149
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when i was three, aunt betty, my neighbor had a can of antique buttons ( iwish i had them now), and i wanted them, she said if i sewed them onto fabric, i could keep them, hen i started sewing her scraps tog, she showed me how to pillowcase a quilt. i didn't know i was quilting, i guess i was self taught, at 7 was sewing my own cloths anbd putting blocks tog.
05-16-2011, 09:05 AM
#150
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Completely self taught. Bought all the books and videos (VHS) I could find. Then did trial and error type quilting as most of the books showed how to put the top together but not how to quilt the sandwich. I am still learning after 35 years. Did find out I have a lot of bad habits.
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