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01-17-2011, 04:09 AM

#31

BMP

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Originally Posted by PWinston

Beautiful. Love your fabrics and looking forward to seeing your quilt progress. How large are your tumbler blocks? The reason I ask, I saw a tutorial on Missouri Quilt Co. today where they had made a tumbler template to use with the 5" charms. There was very little waste of the 5" square. Would a tumbler that size be fairly large?

I just ordered the one from Missouri Quilt it should get here tomorrow.... I love the tumbler quilts

Mine is going to be 61.5x75. 154 Tumblers needed
1st boarder is 2" ,
2nd boarder will be 4"
I ordered 4 charm pack, there will some left and I am planning to make a matching throw pillow with.
Hope this gives you a general idea.

01-17-2011, 04:18 AM

#32

Lady-T

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Originally Posted by PghPat

Thank you - I really wanted to start with a lap quilt - I'm afraid I'd be too overwhelmed starting a queen size quilt. Besides that, I've done no quilting other than SITD and I'm getting kind of tired of that. Maybe this will be something I can learn on.
I've already given my sweety a picture of the tumbler template I need. He cuts them from plexiglass for me.
Oh, another question. Do you lay out the whole quilt with your charms for a pattern before you start or do you just pick them randomly?
Again, thanks! Pat

I usually try to lay them out.
There have been a few times that I didn't and the last 3-4 pieces were the same print

01-17-2011, 05:50 AM

#33

Homespun

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I love the colors and patterns. Makes it look so modern yet old fashioned too.

01-17-2011, 05:58 AM

#34

katsewnsew

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Tumbler quilts are great, your fabric choice is adorable. Anxious to see the finished top.

01-17-2011, 06:00 AM

#35

sewing4kix

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Very nice work! I used the tumblers as a boarder on one of my wall hangings so didn't need to worry about matching seams. Keep going and keep us posted :)

01-17-2011, 06:00 AM

#36

Jennifer22206

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Oh that's so neat! I'm working on a queen size bed quit using a 2.5 inch tumbler. :) It's a lot of fun, I've got over 200 blocks all of different fabrics cut and sewn together. I need a ton more, but I'm working on it! I don't plan on adding a border to it, but after quilting just bind with the angles - that looks awesome (IMHO).

Yours is so pretty, so light and airy!