National Quilting Month...what will you do?
#22
Can we make the wheels on the parade float look like rotary cutters?
Apparently I must have known it was going to be Quilt Month, I prepared by ordering materials -first in a while! I saw some colors I never see together in that just kept nagging my brain until I bought it!
https://www.freespiritfabrics.com/fa...ltz-abandoned/
No idea where that is going...good thing I have a month to figure it out!
Apparently I must have known it was going to be Quilt Month, I prepared by ordering materials -first in a while! I saw some colors I never see together in that just kept nagging my brain until I bought it!
https://www.freespiritfabrics.com/fa...ltz-abandoned/
No idea where that is going...good thing I have a month to figure it out!
#23
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Location: kansas
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think I will be working on 4 quilts--oldest grandson's 3D quilt (Q) on the long arm(have been waiting for gray minky too long for the back); keep piecing on the next grandson's 3D quilt (T); hopefully get the t-shirts for nephew's graduation quilt which was suppose to be here yesterday---still not here. And possibly be cutting our youngest g-boy's 3D quilt.
#24
I'm going to have to fit in a spring wardrobe and get some more bags made, but for now, I'm obsessed with quilts.
Keeps me outta the bars...
#25
Ohmigosh, where do you start, with that???
I've been thinking of sorting by type (1800s, 1930s, etc) and then cutting them into 8˝x10" blocks, 10" blocks, 5" blocks, 2˝" and 1˝" strips. Some method that will suit the patterns I want to make.
The idea is daunting, but I'm so tired of digging through bins to find that one piece of cheddar that I know is around here somewhere.
I've been thinking of sorting by type (1800s, 1930s, etc) and then cutting them into 8˝x10" blocks, 10" blocks, 5" blocks, 2˝" and 1˝" strips. Some method that will suit the patterns I want to make.
The idea is daunting, but I'm so tired of digging through bins to find that one piece of cheddar that I know is around here somewhere.
#26
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Join Date: Aug 2011
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I have spread my wings, as far as my sewing goes. I have approached two more businesses and will now have product in three places.😎 I am currently making outdoor pillows along with the jelly roll rugs that will all be in the shops for sale. So my plan this national quilting month will include working on those.
I would very happily put on my mask to go and watch a quilt parade, and social distance of course..😁 Who would the grand marshal be? I would nominate Jenny from M*, or Marianne Fons, of course Nancy Zieman would have made a great grand marshal. Any other nominees?
I would very happily put on my mask to go and watch a quilt parade, and social distance of course..😁 Who would the grand marshal be? I would nominate Jenny from M*, or Marianne Fons, of course Nancy Zieman would have made a great grand marshal. Any other nominees?
#29
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Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Alturas, CA
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I'm still working on ufo's. I belong to our local Art Center, where they have all kinds of classes, and on the 19th, the quilters are starting an 8 week class, we're calling it a "scrapalooza" class, and I'm bringing 3 or 4 33 gal. bags of scraps, since there's NO way I'll ever be able to get them all cut and used.
#30
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Join Date: Oct 2015
Location: Va.
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Ohmigosh, where do you start, with that???
I've been thinking of sorting by type (1800s, 1930s, etc) and then cutting them into 8˝x10" blocks, 10" blocks, 5" blocks, 2˝" and 1˝" strips. Some method that will suit the patterns I want to make.
The idea is daunting, but I'm so tired of digging through bins to find that one piece of cheddar that I know is around here somewhere.
I've been thinking of sorting by type (1800s, 1930s, etc) and then cutting them into 8˝x10" blocks, 10" blocks, 5" blocks, 2˝" and 1˝" strips. Some method that will suit the patterns I want to make.
The idea is daunting, but I'm so tired of digging through bins to find that one piece of cheddar that I know is around here somewhere.
Long story short- I have now gone back to cutting anything smaller than a fatquarter into sizes I like to use. I have several stacking drawer units from Target. The drawers are meant for scrapbooking paper so they measure 12” square on the inside and are fairly shallow. I have 6 drawers set aside for my cut scraps : 2” squares, 2.5” squares, 3.5” & 4”, 5” & 6”, triangles of various sizes and leftover binding strips. The 4 and 6 inch pieces were from way back when some of the companies were selling charm squares that weren’t a uniform 5”. But the rest are regular sizes that play well together when making blocks. In each drawer, the cut scraps are arranged in stacks by color and roughly by value within each stack. By cutting them and storing them this way, I can actually fit all the scraps into six drawers instead of the overstuffed eight they had taken. Fat quarter size pieces get folded and stored with fat quarters and bigger pieces get wrapped around comic book boards and stored near my yardage. I can open my “precuts” drawers and know at a glance if I’ve got enough scraps to do the size quilt I was planning, or if I need to hit up the larger scraps or my yardage.
I found years ago that this system worked best for me as I like to make scrappy quilts and I’m not sure why I decided to try the other way.
Rob