"Shift" happens - my GFG nightmare
10-16-2011, 09:15 AM
#71
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Beautiful and well done, I hope you enjoy it for many years to come.
I forgot to add that I am very jealous, my grandmother use to quilt for quilting bees so I am told but had never seen anything she had done.
I forgot to add that I am very jealous, my grandmother use to quilt for quilting bees so I am told but had never seen anything she had done.
10-16-2011, 09:28 AM
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It's all a learning experience. The quilt is wonderful. You were very brave to take the task on.
This site helps a lot of new quilters not make the mistakes the rest of us have made. It great that there is a person to ask those questions. I know I started quilting when there weren't many people around me that quilted and I didn't have the internet to look at tutorials and such.
This site helps a lot of new quilters not make the mistakes the rest of us have made. It great that there is a person to ask those questions. I know I started quilting when there weren't many people around me that quilted and I didn't have the internet to look at tutorials and such.
10-16-2011, 09:31 AM
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When I was a kid, my mother and I cut out these hexagons(for my grandmother) from a cardboard template and lots of old worn out cloths and there was my old dress, my aunts blouse, uncle's shirt. They didn't know about things as straight of the grain back then, so any way we could fit the pattern on the material was ok with us. I remember seeing old quilts in museums and they were not perfect but all hand made from scratch. Beautiful scrappy quilt.
Thank you for those lovely memories.
IdahoSandy
Thank you for those lovely memories.
IdahoSandy
10-16-2011, 09:44 AM
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Originally Posted by Sewhappytoquilt
Then, I did the UNTHINKABLE. I cut a backing and bound the edges of the entire quilt, before I actually quilted it.
Whenever a quilt design permits, I stitch in the ditch to where the layers are well secured & then I bind it before I do little fancy stuff within each block. I've never had problems doing it that way & find it easier to work with once the binding is on (and I need every advantage I can get).
BTW, love your GFG quilt.
10-16-2011, 10:21 AM
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Originally Posted by JCL in FL
It's all a learning experience. The quilt is wonderful. You were very brave to take the task on.
This site helps a lot of new quilters not make the mistakes the rest of us have made. It great that there is a person to ask those questions. I know I started quilting when there weren't many people around me that quilted and I didn't have the internet to look at tutorials and such.
This site helps a lot of new quilters not make the mistakes the rest of us have made. It great that there is a person to ask those questions. I know I started quilting when there weren't many people around me that quilted and I didn't have the internet to look at tutorials and such.
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