Pansy KAleidoscope Quilt Top
05-08-2009, 12:35 AM
#51
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somerset, England
Posts: 10,686
Dunster - I've seen that fabric online SOMEWHERE! Now to find it again!
Rhonda - wow, great fabrics! I like K4 but Hans thinks K1. I love the chickens as well but am concerned that the plain background would give the same subtle result as the pansies did. Now if there was a chicken one with grass or straw in the background... thanks so much for taking the time, glad I've led you into temptation AGAIN!
K x
Rhonda - wow, great fabrics! I like K4 but Hans thinks K1. I love the chickens as well but am concerned that the plain background would give the same subtle result as the pansies did. Now if there was a chicken one with grass or straw in the background... thanks so much for taking the time, glad I've led you into temptation AGAIN!
K x
05-08-2009, 12:47 AM
#52
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somerset, England
Posts: 10,686
Originally Posted by Quilt Mama
Geta---I cut mine in strips as well. The busier the better. Be more concerned about color than design. I don't know of any other but Kick Ass Country Store carries fabrics that she chooses for Kaledoscope quilts and then cuts in half the long way so you are purchasing length by approx 22". /www.canadianquiltshop.com/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4_6_205&zenid=4c1117b781613b1819e03e0f85ee8fbb
It is listed under Stack and Whack and she states her policy on the page. Now sure about getting the link to work.
It is listed under Stack and Whack and she states her policy on the page. Now sure about getting the link to work.
K x
05-08-2009, 01:25 AM
#53
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somerset, England
Posts: 10,686
I've just ordered some of this http://www.jandofabrics.com/proddeta...?prod=dog30129
The repeat is the same as yours, dunster, just different doggies! I'm going to make a quilt for a good friend in England. Thank you all for your help, I'm so pleased to have finally found some doggie fabric! Not lurchers but hey, who cares?! :D
K x
PS Rhonda - I'm still interested in more - K quilts could be my new obsession! :D
The repeat is the same as yours, dunster, just different doggies! I'm going to make a quilt for a good friend in England. Thank you all for your help, I'm so pleased to have finally found some doggie fabric! Not lurchers but hey, who cares?! :D
K x
PS Rhonda - I'm still interested in more - K quilts could be my new obsession! :D
05-08-2009, 03:57 AM
#54
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somerset, England
Posts: 10,686
I just found this free video for the hollow blocks - is it the right kind? http://www.5min.com/Video/Hollow-Cub...Block-91186943
Her rotary cutting technique made me cringe though!
K x
Her rotary cutting technique made me cringe though!
K x
05-08-2009, 05:12 AM
#56
Member
Join Date: Apr 2009
Posts: 48
K x---Yes, you are reading it right. It is a Canadian shop. For whatever reason, Canadian prices are considerably more than USA prices. Quilt shop fabric at $12 a yard is cheap for us. We expect to pay $15 and upwards so if it is too rich for our blood we avoid the quilt shops.
The shop owners, a husband and wife team, are very accomodating. They started as an internet shop from their home and it took over their living quarters. They now have a brick and mortar store as well.
The shop owners, a husband and wife team, are very accomodating. They started as an internet shop from their home and it took over their living quarters. They now have a brick and mortar store as well.
05-08-2009, 05:42 AM
#57
Power Poster
Join Date: May 2008
Location: MN
Posts: 24,522
Originally Posted by k3n
I've just done piecing this top. I used the stack n whack technique in the Maxine Rosenthal book, One Block Wonders. It was really fun to do, but I'm not sure I really like it - I think I should have had a fabric with a larger motif in it and a longer pattern repeat - hence my moaning and whining on the lurcher fabric thread! I buy my fabric online and most sites don't tell you size of print and length of pattern repeat - when you have to order 4 or 5 yards, you don't want to make a mistake!
Anyway, maybe it will look better with a border, but what kind? Opinions please! Plus, I've no idea how to quilt it!
K x
Anyway, maybe it will look better with a border, but what kind? Opinions please! Plus, I've no idea how to quilt it!
K x
It is hard to know - exactly - what kind of fabric one is getting just from a picture
Was it hard to do?
05-08-2009, 07:19 AM
#58
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somerset, England
Posts: 10,686
Originally Posted by sandpat
Thanks for this thread K...great quilt! I love your new fabric choice. When I grow up...I wanna make one of these.
BTW...another June baby here...27th. Also 25th anniversary on my Mom's birthday..June 2. :lol:
BTW...another June baby here...27th. Also 25th anniversary on my Mom's birthday..June 2. :lol:
K x
05-08-2009, 07:22 AM
#59
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somerset, England
Posts: 10,686
Originally Posted by bearisgray
I think it's a quilt that is more interesting the longer that one looks at it.
It is hard to know - exactly - what kind of fabric one is getting just from a picture
Was it hard to do?
K x
05-08-2009, 07:22 AM
#60
Power Poster
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Somerset, England
Posts: 10,686
Originally Posted by Quilt Mama
K x---Yes, you are reading it right. It is a Canadian shop. For whatever reason, Canadian prices are considerably more than USA prices. Quilt shop fabric at $12 a yard is cheap for us. We expect to pay $15 and upwards so if it is too rich for our blood we avoid the quilt shops.
The shop owners, a husband and wife team, are very accomodating. They started as an internet shop from their home and it took over their living quarters. They now have a brick and mortar store as well.
The shop owners, a husband and wife team, are very accomodating. They started as an internet shop from their home and it took over their living quarters. They now have a brick and mortar store as well.
K x
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
