A plea for help with a little bit of background story
03-06-2010, 07:19 PM
#11
Super Member
Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: MI
Posts: 2,526
Hi John, I'm sorry for you loss. What a loving tribute you're doing, in finishing his quilt idea!
I don't understand why you're needing it so thick either. Oh - are you talking about 'width'?
But to sew it onto the quilt, just iron the edges of your circle under about 1/4 of an inch or so, and pin it onto your quilt top, making sure it's lying good and flat, and sew it on. Make sure you have it pinned very good, due to it's large size.
If this doesn't help at all, keep asking, I'm sure someone on here will be able to explain better!
:) :)
I don't understand why you're needing it so thick either. Oh - are you talking about 'width'?
But to sew it onto the quilt, just iron the edges of your circle under about 1/4 of an inch or so, and pin it onto your quilt top, making sure it's lying good and flat, and sew it on. Make sure you have it pinned very good, due to it's large size.
If this doesn't help at all, keep asking, I'm sure someone on here will be able to explain better!
:) :)
03-06-2010, 07:24 PM
#12
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,981
Ok, I have heard of this method for drawing a really large circle, I am attaching the link. I would practice on a large piece of paper first. you can take two pencils attach a string to each pencil. Someone will have to hold it down in the middle of the circle and then go out as far as you want the size of the circle to be and pivot around the person holding the other end of the string. Here is the link, may make more sense.http://www.ehow.com/how_2239326_draw-circle-string.html
03-06-2010, 07:25 PM
#13
Super Member
Join Date: May 2009
Location: Central PA
Posts: 5,573
To make the circle, get a large paper table cloth and spread it out on the floor. Get a pencil and attach it to a long string (1/2 the desired diameter of the circle - the radius, I guess). then anchor it to a spot in the center of the paper, stretch out and keeping the center in place, draw with the pencil. Kind of like the compasses we used in school to draw circles for geometry. It is like when a dog is on a rope anchored in the grounds and can only go in circles. lol
Once you have the paper circle, you can cut sections...you would have to add 1/4 inch to each side of the piece of circle (arc) for the seam allowance to stitch the different colors together. Hope this all makes sense.
Sorry for your loss, I am sure you have a lot of wonderful memories for the time you spent together before his illness, rejoice in them!
Once you have the paper circle, you can cut sections...you would have to add 1/4 inch to each side of the piece of circle (arc) for the seam allowance to stitch the different colors together. Hope this all makes sense.
Sorry for your loss, I am sure you have a lot of wonderful memories for the time you spent together before his illness, rejoice in them!
03-06-2010, 07:26 PM
#14
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,981
Hey nursie76, we are on the same wave length.http://www.ehow.com/how_2239326_draw-circle-string.html
:lol:
Originally Posted by nursie76
To make the circle, get a large paper table cloth and spread it out on the floor. Get a pencil and attach it to a long string (1/2 the desired diameter of the circle - the radius, I guess). then anchor it to a spot in the center of the paper, stretch out and keeping the center in place, draw with the pencil. Kind of like the compasses we used in school to draw circles for geometry. It is like when a dog is on a rope anchored in the grounds and can only go in circles. lol
Once you have the paper circle, you can cut sections...you would have to add 1/4 inch to each side of the piece of circle (arc) for the seam allowance to stitch the different colors together. Hope this all makes sense.
Sorry for your loss, I am sure you have a lot of wonderful memories for the time you spent together before his illness, rejoice in them!
Once you have the paper circle, you can cut sections...you would have to add 1/4 inch to each side of the piece of circle (arc) for the seam allowance to stitch the different colors together. Hope this all makes sense.
Sorry for your loss, I am sure you have a lot of wonderful memories for the time you spent together before his illness, rejoice in them!
03-06-2010, 07:46 PM
#16
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: Mar 2010
Posts: 4
perfect. thank you. i was starting to do all this crazy math stuff with scaling shapes up and down....it was very complicated. this makes infinitely more sense. I'll let you know how it turns out.
in mid-april, several of our closest friends are coming to spend a few days with me. we're going to have a little bee and do the actual quilting. we'll be using it as a backdrop for all of numbers his friends will be singing/performing at his memorial in may.
thank you
john
in mid-april, several of our closest friends are coming to spend a few days with me. we're going to have a little bee and do the actual quilting. we'll be using it as a backdrop for all of numbers his friends will be singing/performing at his memorial in may.
thank you
john
03-06-2010, 07:51 PM
#17
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: North Carolina
Posts: 1,981
John, please do let us know how it turns out.
And if you have trouble using a string to draw the circle, try using a yard stick, figure out someway to attach one end to the center of the circle and attach the pencil out on the yardstick as far are you want to go out. Might be more stable than a string. Just another idea.
And if you have trouble using a string to draw the circle, try using a yard stick, figure out someway to attach one end to the center of the circle and attach the pencil out on the yardstick as far are you want to go out. Might be more stable than a string. Just another idea.
Originally Posted by PicklesPimento
perfect. thank you. i was starting to do all this crazy math stuff with scaling shapes up and down....it was very complicated. this makes infinitely more sense. I'll let you know how it turns out.
in mid-april, several of our closest friends are coming to spend a few days with me. we're going to have a little bee and do the actual quilting. we'll be using it as a backdrop for all of numbers his friends will be singing/performing at his memorial in may.
thank you
john
in mid-april, several of our closest friends are coming to spend a few days with me. we're going to have a little bee and do the actual quilting. we'll be using it as a backdrop for all of numbers his friends will be singing/performing at his memorial in may.
thank you
john
03-06-2010, 08:30 PM
#19
Power Poster
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Northern Indiana
Posts: 20,306
So Sorry for your loss, and glad that others were able to help
{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Please keep us posted on your progress and post pics when you are done with the quilt ! Would love to see it :wink:
{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{HUGS}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Please keep us posted on your progress and post pics when you are done with the quilt ! Would love to see it :wink:
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
misseva
For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
5
06-02-2019 11:03 AM
Plumtree
Main
12
06-06-2011 11:03 AM
grann of 6
Pictures
24
08-23-2010 03:26 AM
