Quilters if you live someplace besides USA please post. Enjoy!
06-30-2010, 01:09 AM
#11
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Sydney, Australia
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Hi, I live in Sydney Australia. I have been quilting on and off for about 25 years. Have made all my quilts fully by hand (had a sewing machine phobia) until about 6 months ago. I have just bought a new Singer machine and have loved combining hand and machine. I have done paper piecing and applique mainly. I have made some baby quilts, wall hangings and single bed quilts. I have not been very prolific due to hand piecing and work (doesn't it just get in the way of quilting?)
06-30-2010, 03:41 AM
#14
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Ayr, Ontario
Posts: 1,059
Hi everyone. I live in a suburb of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. I have been quilting for 21 years, my first quilt was for my then baby son. It was a sampler crib quilt, all hand pieced and quilted. The ladies in a local church ran a quilting class for new quilters, so I learned there. I now have moved up a little and quilt on my Tin Lizzie 18LS, but still do some smaller pieces on my Bernina 440QE. I enjoy handwork as well and always have hand quilting or applique, and cross stitch to work on. Lately, those Bow Tucks bags have been calling me, 3 completed so far and more to go.
My DH and I have 2 boys, 21 & 16 and 3 Golden Retrievers, Jonah, Sam and Anna.
My DH and I have 2 boys, 21 & 16 and 3 Golden Retrievers, Jonah, Sam and Anna.
06-30-2010, 06:47 AM
#17
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Austria
Posts: 37
great thread
I live in germany, 1 1/2 hour from munic away in bavaria
I started quilting a few month ago and have only finished my first log cabin quilt, who isnt really square lol *g*
and 2 miniquilts for swaps (both are handquilted)
and there is a yellow and purple sandwich for my daughter that is started with handquilting
and also a nearly finished machinepieced top with friendshipstars
I live in germany, 1 1/2 hour from munic away in bavaria
I started quilting a few month ago and have only finished my first log cabin quilt, who isnt really square lol *g*
and 2 miniquilts for swaps (both are handquilted)
and there is a yellow and purple sandwich for my daughter that is started with handquilting
and also a nearly finished machinepieced top with friendshipstars
06-30-2010, 06:50 AM
#18
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Longwood, Florida
Posts: 2,910
Originally Posted by Borntohandquilt
I'm from North Germany and live in a small village about 50 km northeast from Hamburg. The name of our federal state is Schleswig-Holstein and we have to drive about 60 minutes to reach the Baltic sea. I'm a hand quilter and do wholecloth quilts. I've started quilting in 1989.
Good to know you. I was born in Frankfurt and left Germany after the war. I was eight then.
06-30-2010, 06:53 AM
#19
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Longwood, Florida
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Originally Posted by Cornelia
great thread
I live in germany, 1 1/2 hour from munic away in bavaria
I started quilting a few month ago and have only finished my first log cabin quilt, who isnt really square lol *g*
and 2 miniquilts for swaps (both are handquilted)
and there is a yellow and purple sandwich for my daughter that is started with handquilting
and also a nearly finished machinepieced top with friendshipstars
I live in germany, 1 1/2 hour from munic away in bavaria
I started quilting a few month ago and have only finished my first log cabin quilt, who isnt really square lol *g*
and 2 miniquilts for swaps (both are handquilted)
and there is a yellow and purple sandwich for my daughter that is started with handquilting
and also a nearly finished machinepieced top with friendshipstars
It' great to meet everyone. On the log cabin, try cutting your strips on the straight of grain. You will be surprised how square your block will be then. Cuting on the cross grain will warp the block.
06-30-2010, 07:01 AM
#20
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Austria
Posts: 37
Originally Posted by Rosyhf
Originally Posted by Cornelia
great thread
I live in germany, 1 1/2 hour from munic away in bavaria
I started quilting a few month ago and have only finished my first log cabin quilt, who isnt really square lol *g*
and 2 miniquilts for swaps (both are handquilted)
and there is a yellow and purple sandwich for my daughter that is started with handquilting
and also a nearly finished machinepieced top with friendshipstars
I live in germany, 1 1/2 hour from munic away in bavaria
I started quilting a few month ago and have only finished my first log cabin quilt, who isnt really square lol *g*
and 2 miniquilts for swaps (both are handquilted)
and there is a yellow and purple sandwich for my daughter that is started with handquilting
and also a nearly finished machinepieced top with friendshipstars
It' great to meet everyone. On the log cabin, try cutting your strips on the straight of grain. You will be surprised how square your block will be then. Cuting on the cross grain will warp the block.
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