cant believe Im done: 24 Miniquilts
10-01-2010, 04:23 PM
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Absolutely impressive! Being that they are such small blocks any distortions can really show up. Your blocks are all perfect.
Here's a few questions:
Do you use a lot of starch on your fabric? They all look so crisp.
Are any of these paper-pieced? I didn't quite understand the part where you said you cut the pieces bigger.
Where did you get the patterns for the blocks and the bears?
Any other secrets you can give us?
Thank you for sharing your wonderful work.
mac
P.S. Congratulations on being a grandma!
Here's a few questions:
Do you use a lot of starch on your fabric? They all look so crisp.
Are any of these paper-pieced? I didn't quite understand the part where you said you cut the pieces bigger.
Where did you get the patterns for the blocks and the bears?
Any other secrets you can give us?
Thank you for sharing your wonderful work.
mac
P.S. Congratulations on being a grandma!
10-01-2010, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by mac
Absolutely impressive! Being that they are such small blocks any distortions can really show up. Your blocks are all perfect.
Here's a few questions:
Do you use a lot of starch on your fabric? They all look so crisp.
Are any of these paper-pieced? I didn't quite understand the part where you said you cut the pieces bigger.
Where did you get the patterns for the blocks and the bears?
Any other secrets you can give us?
Thank you for sharing your wonderful work.
mac
P.S. Congratulations on being a grandma!
Here's a few questions:
Do you use a lot of starch on your fabric? They all look so crisp.
Are any of these paper-pieced? I didn't quite understand the part where you said you cut the pieces bigger.
Where did you get the patterns for the blocks and the bears?
Any other secrets you can give us?
Thank you for sharing your wonderful work.
mac
P.S. Congratulations on being a grandma!
What helped me alot was to keep scissors to me right thumb all the time. It drives you crazy to have to pick it up and lay it down every few seconds otherwise.
There is more advantage to that since you have to stop pp after an hour to get the blood circulation back to your thumb.........just be carefull if you put your glasses up your nose with the same hand!?
I started quite a few patterns I had to give up at this scale. I think littler than 1" square is not managable as you have to piece them together somehow. As I mentioned before it took sometimes up to 10 attempts until it was perfect,per seam.
12 seams with 9 patches and 24 with 16 patches is much more workmanship than art.
Most of the patterns I got from this board or quilterscache and the embroidery files for the bears are from allstitches.com
10-01-2010, 04:59 PM
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I'm blown away by the intricacies of your work! How you can be so detailed in such a small area and be so accurate...it's amazing to behold. Were most of your blocks done using the paper piecing technique?
10-01-2010, 05:04 PM
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one more important thing is a good lamp to see through the paper where to place the next piece of fabric. If that doesnt work put pins through the beginning and ending of the acording line to see where to attach the next piece of fabric. If it gets even trickier sew the line without fabric on the back, put the fabric in place and sew the exact same line.
If you are afraid of paper piecing just try it out. It is so simple. To sew the pp blocks together is a bit more difficult but I am not even a year into quilting so you can do it too!
If you are afraid of paper piecing just try it out. It is so simple. To sew the pp blocks together is a bit more difficult but I am not even a year into quilting so you can do it too!
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