I was just given this and need all your help.
09-02-2010, 06:06 PM
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Georgia Bonesteel has been doing this on TV a long time and calls it "lap quilting." Here's her web site: http://www.georgiabonesteel.com/
09-02-2010, 09:40 PM
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Originally Posted by rosemaynes
Hello everyone,
Here is my story and I hope someone out there can help me. A very nice man called me today and asked if I could finish his wife's quilt. She died 3 years ago and when he was going through a closet he found this quilt that his wife had started. Their daughter is getting married in a month or so and he would love to give it to her as a wedding gift. Here's the problem, the blocks are 12 inch blocks that she had already hand quilted around them and so there is batting and backing to each block. Now what??? How do I put these together? Can I add sashing? The quilting and piecing is very nice and she has done a great job... but I don't know how to put it together with the back already attached. Please help me make this dream come true. Rose
I have added a picture and you can see on the left her hand stitching in red and you can see the batting and backing to each block.
Here is my story and I hope someone out there can help me. A very nice man called me today and asked if I could finish his wife's quilt. She died 3 years ago and when he was going through a closet he found this quilt that his wife had started. Their daughter is getting married in a month or so and he would love to give it to her as a wedding gift. Here's the problem, the blocks are 12 inch blocks that she had already hand quilted around them and so there is batting and backing to each block. Now what??? How do I put these together? Can I add sashing? The quilting and piecing is very nice and she has done a great job... but I don't know how to put it together with the back already attached. Please help me make this dream come true. Rose
I have added a picture and you can see on the left her hand stitching in red and you can see the batting and backing to each block.
09-03-2010, 04:04 AM
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If you set them together on point with the same size plain blocks inbetween it should be big enough for a quilt. I would machine quilt the plain blocks and then do all of them QAYG. By machine quilting the plain blocks it will really set off the hand quilting that her mother did. Don't get too fancy with your machine quilting, keep it plain and simple.
attatch then together the same way Ditter showed in her string quilt tutorial.
attatch then together the same way Ditter showed in her string quilt tutorial.
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