My daughter gave me a terrific birthday gift!
08-05-2012, 07:15 AM
#11
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Location: Chaska MN
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Don't ya just love it when your family really know who you are? I got two fat quarters and some needles from my 12 and 15 year old grandsons for Christmas last year. They sucked it up and went into my local quilt shop picked the items out themselves. Your daughter was so thoughtful. What fun for you.
08-05-2012, 01:13 PM
#14
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: IL
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It's a perfect! gift. It's a little intimidating at first, but fun! By making a couple of tops to learn on you'll have good use of your lessons. On one of my practices I just took two pieces of fabric and used that. (I'd attach a pic if it wouldn't take me so long to figure it out.) It's amazing how all the twists and turns can make plain fabric look good. Have fun!!
08-05-2012, 03:28 PM
#16
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Join Date: May 2008
Location: Colorado
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I do not like to "practice" on my quilts. Charity quillts are a great "practice piece" and then you can quit your own quilt after you feel comfortable with your practices. By working on the charity quilts, you are learning to control the machine and you are helping a worthwhile charity by finishing the quilting process. A lot of ladies like to piece the top, but don't like to do the acutal quilting. If you do not already belong to a guild, consider joining or at least volunteering to quilt for them. You'll find it is a lot of fun and you get a lot of satisfation out of knowing you have helped finish quilts for their charity(s). One other thing I do for one of my "good" quilts is to practice on a piece of muslin. I quilt it like I want to quilt the "real" quilt. I get the "practice quilt" and the "real quilt" in the end. The practice quilt also makes a great dog bed.
Ellen
Ellen
The family celebrated my birthday tonight. My youngest daughter gave me a gift certificate for long arm quilt lessons at the Sew and Vac store near me!!!!I am thrilled. She knows I am so interested in this, at least trying it to see if it is for me or not. I can not believe she thought of this and did this for me. I have the best daughters ever! now I have to get busy and make a couple for small quilts really soon so that I can have something to practice on once lessons are over if I like it.
08-05-2012, 05:06 PM
#18
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: California
Posts: 702
Great gift!!! Thoughtful daughter. You might want to check with the LA quilt teacher ... when I took a class I was asked to bring a small quilt top for a pantograph, a stripped quilt with several pastel colors 6" wide to practice different stitches and a couple of yards of fabric to design a whole cloth. It was great and I learned a lot. Most of all ... greatful for LA quilters!!
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