3420 Pieces - what was I thinking?
02-09-2009, 01:04 AM
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Well Shelley, it's the first time I've ever heard of "freezing fog." Down here, we have fog as thick as pea soup. :shock: Your quilt it gorgeous. I love the colors. When you say you purchased "a kit." Does that mean that all the fabrics were cut ready to begin, or did you do the cutting? I would have been so overwhelmed looking at all of those little pieces.
You did a fantastic job.
You did a fantastic job.
02-09-2009, 08:07 AM
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Gail, freezing fog is thick fog in freezing temperatures. Check my blog for some pictures!
I bought this in ebay as a kit. The pattern and fabrics were all picked out. When I first started quilting, I was totally intimidated by choosing the fabrics. I'm over that now, but I still have some kits in my stash to finish up.
I'm glad they weren't pre-cut. I strip pieced as much as I could. I would have gone totally looney if I'd have had to work with all little pieces!
I bought this in ebay as a kit. The pattern and fabrics were all picked out. When I first started quilting, I was totally intimidated by choosing the fabrics. I'm over that now, but I still have some kits in my stash to finish up.
I'm glad they weren't pre-cut. I strip pieced as much as I could. I would have gone totally looney if I'd have had to work with all little pieces!
02-10-2009, 03:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Shelley
Gail, freezing fog is thick fog in freezing temperatures. Check my blog for some pictures!
I bought this in ebay as a kit. The pattern and fabrics were all picked out. When I first started quilting, I was totally intimidated by choosing the fabrics. I'm over that now, but I still have some kits in my stash to finish up.
I'm glad they weren't pre-cut. I strip pieced as much as I could. I would have gone totally looney if I'd have had to work with all little pieces!
I bought this in ebay as a kit. The pattern and fabrics were all picked out. When I first started quilting, I was totally intimidated by choosing the fabrics. I'm over that now, but I still have some kits in my stash to finish up.
I'm glad they weren't pre-cut. I strip pieced as much as I could. I would have gone totally looney if I'd have had to work with all little pieces!
02-10-2009, 07:34 AM
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02-10-2009, 09:31 AM
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OMG Shelley, that is a beautiful scene -- a lot prettier than our "pea soup." :lol: I learn something new everytime I click into this forum. Love it.
About the interfacing on the t-shirt quilt -- how about the iron-on interlock interfacing? I've done a couple of t-shirt quilts without interfacing and they came out really nice, but I didn't do any machine quilting over the t-shirt sections. I did stitch in the ditch over the sashings, etc. Did hand quilting over the t-shirts. Just wondering.
About the interfacing on the t-shirt quilt -- how about the iron-on interlock interfacing? I've done a couple of t-shirt quilts without interfacing and they came out really nice, but I didn't do any machine quilting over the t-shirt sections. I did stitch in the ditch over the sashings, etc. Did hand quilting over the t-shirts. Just wondering.
02-10-2009, 03:10 PM
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I suppose it would work. The whole idea is 1) to stabilize the t-shirt so that it quilts like straight cotton would quilt and 2) not spend a bunch of $ doing it. You don't want it to have much give, or you'll possibly end up with t-shirt stretched out between the cotton sashings, or puckers.
That 'pretty' frost was a pain in the @#$%%@#! It sure caused a lot of trouble around here. Our neighbor had to cut down an 89 year old fir tree in her front yard. The top branches gave out, and as they fell, they broke branches all the way down. There are old trees all over town that have been cut down. We were lucky. The tree shown is an Austree, and I think there was only 1 major branch that broke. That tree will recover. At the farm, we big branches fall, one hitting the house. It's an obstacle course to go into in the house. The tree in the yard was old when Don's grandparents built the house in the 1930's. Grandma spent $1000's 15 years ago to have the tree trimmed so that the branches wouldn't hang over the house. We would have lost the whole has if she hadn't. Some of the branches cut out were 30" across.
That 'pretty' frost was a pain in the @#$%%@#! It sure caused a lot of trouble around here. Our neighbor had to cut down an 89 year old fir tree in her front yard. The top branches gave out, and as they fell, they broke branches all the way down. There are old trees all over town that have been cut down. We were lucky. The tree shown is an Austree, and I think there was only 1 major branch that broke. That tree will recover. At the farm, we big branches fall, one hitting the house. It's an obstacle course to go into in the house. The tree in the yard was old when Don's grandparents built the house in the 1930's. Grandma spent $1000's 15 years ago to have the tree trimmed so that the branches wouldn't hang over the house. We would have lost the whole has if she hadn't. Some of the branches cut out were 30" across.
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