k3n, my OBW'S
01-15-2011, 01:37 PM
#74
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Northern California mountains
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I told my DH that I wanted a quilter's mirror. He cut a couple of peaces of mirror from one we no longer wanted, fastened them together with 2 pieces of duct tape and 'bound' them with narrow strips of the tape. It works like a charm.
01-25-2011, 07:05 PM
#78
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Central Washington State
Posts: 5,997
GRAND!
Sometime this year, I will actually get to work on an OBW.
My friend stopped by the Post today from her quilt guild meeting. She is a great one for picking up things no one wants to mess with - - scraps, bits, pieces, blocks that no one will put together.
Today, she picked up an OBW kit that has been kicking around the state for - - it has gone through at least FOUR quilters! (or maybe it has just been going around the county)
ANYWAY! The fabric is flowers, of course - - with a repeat at almost twenty two inches apart. The kit comes with a sage green set of triangles to go on two sides of the hexagon, and a gold from the seventies (though no one will admit to a thing!)
Long story short - - the triangles are five inches tall (bummer!) ... on the other hand, my friend and I will be working on the OBW because (even though I have never done one before <g>) at this point I know more about what is supposed to happen than she does ... I am REALLY excited! Don't mean to steal this thread, and I won't probably say anything more, but I was so excited/am so excited over my upcoming adventure I had to tell someone, and I knew if k3n was anywhere around, she would appreciate my being all atwitter <g> <wave>
Sometime this year, I will actually get to work on an OBW.
My friend stopped by the Post today from her quilt guild meeting. She is a great one for picking up things no one wants to mess with - - scraps, bits, pieces, blocks that no one will put together.
Today, she picked up an OBW kit that has been kicking around the state for - - it has gone through at least FOUR quilters! (or maybe it has just been going around the county)
ANYWAY! The fabric is flowers, of course - - with a repeat at almost twenty two inches apart. The kit comes with a sage green set of triangles to go on two sides of the hexagon, and a gold from the seventies (though no one will admit to a thing!)
Long story short - - the triangles are five inches tall (bummer!) ... on the other hand, my friend and I will be working on the OBW because (even though I have never done one before <g>) at this point I know more about what is supposed to happen than she does ... I am REALLY excited! Don't mean to steal this thread, and I won't probably say anything more, but I was so excited/am so excited over my upcoming adventure I had to tell someone, and I knew if k3n was anywhere around, she would appreciate my being all atwitter <g> <wave>
01-25-2011, 08:05 PM
#79
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Hermitage, Tn
Posts: 252
i am going to a friends house and she is going to show me how to cut them out I have enough fabric to do 3 quilts. I have been working on a snowman applique' quilt and doing 40x50 tie blankets for the Vanderbuilt Childrens Hospital. I have 7 tied needing binding and have 4 more sewed toghther and have 6 more to sew .
01-25-2011, 08:51 PM
#80
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Seattle
Posts: 689
Originally Posted by omak
GRAND!
Sometime this year, I will actually get to work on an OBW.
My friend stopped by the Post today from her quilt guild meeting. She is a great one for picking up things no one wants to mess with - - scraps, bits, pieces, blocks that no one will put together.
Today, she picked up an OBW kit that has been kicking around the state for - - it has gone through at least FOUR quilters! (or maybe it has just been going around the county)
ANYWAY! The fabric is flowers, of course - - with a repeat at almost twenty two inches apart. The kit comes with a sage green set of triangles to go on two sides of the hexagon, and a gold from the seventies (though no one will admit to a thing!)
Long story short - - the triangles are five inches tall (bummer!) ... on the other hand, my friend and I will be working on the OBW because (even though I have never done one before <g>) at this point I know more about what is supposed to happen than she does ... I am REALLY excited! Don't mean to steal this thread, and I won't probably say anything more, but I was so excited/am so excited over my upcoming adventure I had to tell someone, and I knew if k3n was anywhere around, she would appreciate my being all atwitter <g> <wave>
Sometime this year, I will actually get to work on an OBW.
My friend stopped by the Post today from her quilt guild meeting. She is a great one for picking up things no one wants to mess with - - scraps, bits, pieces, blocks that no one will put together.
Today, she picked up an OBW kit that has been kicking around the state for - - it has gone through at least FOUR quilters! (or maybe it has just been going around the county)
ANYWAY! The fabric is flowers, of course - - with a repeat at almost twenty two inches apart. The kit comes with a sage green set of triangles to go on two sides of the hexagon, and a gold from the seventies (though no one will admit to a thing!)
Long story short - - the triangles are five inches tall (bummer!) ... on the other hand, my friend and I will be working on the OBW because (even though I have never done one before <g>) at this point I know more about what is supposed to happen than she does ... I am REALLY excited! Don't mean to steal this thread, and I won't probably say anything more, but I was so excited/am so excited over my upcoming adventure I had to tell someone, and I knew if k3n was anywhere around, she would appreciate my being all atwitter <g> <wave>
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