Wholecloth Quilters
06-21-2010, 05:28 AM
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Janet(Hinterland) and MNQuilter,
thank you for this information! I know Sandie Lush (not personally, but her homepage) and I've seen picutres of Hazel Canny's quilts and I will look in the internet for the other names you've mentioned.
thank you for this information! I know Sandie Lush (not personally, but her homepage) and I've seen picutres of Hazel Canny's quilts and I will look in the internet for the other names you've mentioned.
06-21-2010, 05:45 AM
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:lol: :lol: Your work should be up there with the others named in this thread. It's beyond words. I'm a handquilter( a novice), but I do enjoy it. I'd love to do a wholecloth more now after seeing your quilts, but it'd probably take me 5 yrs. to get it finished,lol!!
06-21-2010, 05:47 AM
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Originally Posted by gollytwo
Originally Posted by Borntohandquilt
This is a question that interests me personally a lot: have you ever heard about about a quilter who only does wholecloth quilts? No patchwork, no appliqué... only wholecloth?
It seems to be a lost species....
It seems to be a lost species....
It's somewhere in my basement along with other things I've never gotten to. And now never will, since I no longer handquilt.
I know they're still sold, as I saw some at a show within the last couple of years. Don't know, however, if anyone's buying them.
I'd be interested in it sometime in the future if you want to sell it. Just not within the nest few weeks. TIA!!!
06-21-2010, 05:58 AM
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I have made a whole cloth baby quilt that was pre-marked. Not stamped, but drawn on by an Amish woman. I bought three other marked whole cloths, two throw size, one queen size. I also bought a finished queen sized whole cloth quilt at an Amish Auction. I got an incredible buy at $115. It's going on my guest room bed.
06-21-2010, 09:28 AM
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Originally Posted by sewjoyce
I love to do the mini whole cloth quilts.
Could I ask why you mark your own instead of buying the preprinted ones??
Could I ask why you mark your own instead of buying the preprinted ones??
06-21-2010, 09:41 AM
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I would do all wholecloth if I could get away with it. I love printed fabric almost as much as I do handquilting. I do hate to piece. I have an extensive collection of stencils and objects like cookie cutters that I use for marking quilt patterns. I am known as the "Queen of Cheater's Cloth". I can take a preprinted panel and make it look as though it were pieced and appliqued just by handquilting it aound every little design on it. When I break down and piece I try to include lots of solid color or other type plain blocks to give me lots of places to elaborately quilt. It is much more plesant not to have to quilt through numerous seams.
06-21-2010, 12:20 PM
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I occasionally will hand quilt a whole cloth quilt. Mainly they are smaller quilts. One I made an Amish square in a square in orange and yellow and hand quilted it. It is beautiful. I did another one in the same color family but in the round as a challenge in my guild. I also mark my own...I use stencils. I will usually do a whole cloth quilt as a summer vacation....take with me to the beach project. It's a wonderful way to wile away the time.
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