tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-75187544016598563222024-03-13T13:24:01.795-07:00Nana-B's Quilting FunNana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-19410423246837996562011-07-23T15:42:00.001-07:002011-07-23T15:43:36.071-07:00I do NOT get credit for this masterpiece!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I just wanted to document it for posterity and really felt I must share it with the world--it is so beautiful. Done by our "real quilter" friend for my granddaughter...</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">detail of the pattern and the "flaps"</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6122/5965837545_8e0c87d936.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A big larger portion</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6147/5966395096_48229ec37d.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">back</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6129/5966395736_f56e085698_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I am not sharing the "signature" area; too much personal information for a public blog. It's beautifully done.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Stunning!</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6009/5965836657_7b4796d019.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-91208661453765054052011-04-30T15:43:00.000-07:002011-07-23T15:44:06.301-07:00Another one; I only "helped" with this one<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Some eight or so years ago, my daughter started this baby quilt for her sister. Her sister has finished creating her family, but it was not complete. This year she decided to send it to our friends in Sweden.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">She designed, pieced, and backed it with flannel. Many friends helped with hand-quilting. In the end I finished the hand-quilting and turned the backing over to form the binding.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is the back of very soft flannel</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5149/5608633374_e7729dc076.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">And the front of lovely little pastels squares</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5101/5608631478_cb28028123.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Very sweet, and much appreciated by the new baby.</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-30912688877667405612011-02-17T21:56:00.001-08:002011-02-17T21:56:25.491-08:00Big Blocks<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One of my daughters designed these. My other daughter chose the fabrics. The effect is very bold, especially as we used such large squares. (I would not make another one with such large squares, but it is quite spectacular.)</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was originally one quilt, and it was massive, so I split it into two identical ones. </div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was relatively easy to get the quilting stitches where I wanted them with the corners to "eyeball".</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4140/5044643141_495daaa831.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5045263798_bc83e8b46b.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Front</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/5045260006_d277c32750.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-8331449703142816832011-02-17T21:47:00.000-08:002011-02-17T21:47:17.500-08:00Kids Around the World - new color scheme<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I like this design so much, I got it in a natural background.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Detail</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5044634851_6672387c05.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5044636859_e8d2eb10e2.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Front</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5044633435_0edbb257b5.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-54265734894491613642011-02-17T20:55:00.000-08:002011-02-17T20:55:05.796-08:00First Village<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This fabric is called "First Village", and I suppose it is as good a title for the quilt as anything, although I don't think the first village looked anything like this adorable fabric.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Detail</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4088/5045223694_bd9c2e7bda.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Again, I needed to quilt "around" the scenes. It shows up best on the back side.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5045226390_cb64c9916d.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I love the combination</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5044600601_9c727522e4.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5045221094_9655326d43_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished back</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/5044605507_875b551855.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Front (it's strange how the stripes beside the center panel completely distorts in the photo)</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4133/5045220302_7d5aaca8c4.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-45644875168215653302011-02-17T20:47:00.000-08:002011-02-17T20:47:05.962-08:00Dancing Horses - (and free style gets REALLY crazy!)<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I simply cannot chop these horses heads off. I tried to tell myself I could, but it just couldn't happen. </div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So, 7 hours of quilting later (that is only on the center panel, which is not a full-width panel like many I've done)...</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5044590995_263509975c.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is what it looks like on the back side</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4104/5045218260_05a6857251.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back of the whole quilt</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5044594273_b3e292f033.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I said these crazy bugs and horses just might be my "Sistine Chapel"</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5045209858_a04b2bac73.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Complete</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4151/5044586789_857096fa10.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-47455690329299890542011-02-17T20:38:00.000-08:002011-09-23T19:36:23.073-07:00Dutch Flowers<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My daughter calls this one "Wooden Shoes".</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's another large quilted center panel with border. I merely followed the lines of the print for the quilting.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Detail</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4083/5044581481_5d3b9829f6.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I love the crisp clean look - finished quilt</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/5044580079_e48becc83a.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Backside</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5045234346_72bec17822.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /><br />
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You will see a variant on this one if I ever get back to my quilting.<br />
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</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-67602372389932761462011-02-17T20:29:00.000-08:002011-02-17T20:29:08.684-08:00More Nursery Scenes and Free Style<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It was mandatory to find a way around these little scenes.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Detail</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/5044572647_053dcfc734.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5045194750_eae16f9109.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished quilt</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5044571093_c56d4a48f0.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-30724734114276281452011-02-17T20:21:00.000-08:002011-02-17T20:21:03.549-08:00Nursery Rhymes - Pages of a Book<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I just couldn't resist this one. It's like the pages of a book.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Detail</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4108/5045187502_c0b91b1474.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One of the "pages"</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4146/5045189526_2df8c890a9.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">On this one I used an actual print on the back</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/5045190546_60067e84e8.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Print detail</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/5045191212_3d7d60c8d9.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4092/5044564559_13aa4bf1a1.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-39770116497825514002011-02-17T20:10:00.000-08:002011-02-17T20:21:23.506-08:00Jemima Puddleduck - (and I begin to play with free hand quilting)<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This is a youth size quilt. I looked at the pattern and I just could NOT sew through Jemima Puddleduck! So I decided to see what happened.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Detail</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5044576739_26b40ac784.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back side</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4085/5045198800_bbd4a9840a.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished front</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4152/5044575763_68dcb20307.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(I'm getting pretty proud of my bindings sometimes these days!)</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-75033331541623191532011-02-17T20:02:00.000-08:002011-02-17T20:02:22.518-08:00Regular size and Youth size Matching Quilts<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I got a nice print to make easy quilts for kids...</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Close-up--I stitched around the squares of the pattern in the fabric</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4148/5045179578_4f46a4d009.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back side</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4125/5044559079_5ac6255844.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished quilt</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4087/5044556309_87c77e4520.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b>Youth Size</b></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Just for fun, I made the second one slightly smaller, as many are needed in Korea of varying sizes.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back side of this one is a different print, instead of "quilt liner" fabric. You'll see the print in the next post. </div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished front</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4153/5044560657_6b19df82c5.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div><br />
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</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-10813968180949357212011-02-17T19:51:00.001-08:002011-02-17T19:51:36.989-08:00New Clothesline Helps<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">My husband installed a retractable line so I could line up some quilts and do regular laundry as well.</span><br />
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</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-156381757681807462011-02-17T19:14:00.000-08:002011-02-17T19:52:01.039-08:00Time to leave...<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">As our guests prepared to leave, I realized I had not made their little cutie a dolly quilt, so I had to scurry through my stuff trying to find some bright, suitable, pinks. I would not have chosen this exact combination if I'd had a better choice, but she loved it.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Fabric close-up</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4128/5043146283_b74f9b073f.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div>Back side</div><div><b><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5043143137_e705d17fce.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></b></div><div><b><br />
</b></div><div>And the front</div></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5043768840_ffd9b345f7.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-39472677436975960112011-02-17T19:06:00.000-08:002011-02-17T19:52:22.576-08:00Sewing on the Deck!<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">During September we had friends from Sweden as house guests, so I moved my sewing out to the deck (having emptied my sewing room to put a bed in it).</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Serger/sewing station<br />
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</div><div>Iron/steam station (with my awesome new pressure steamer iron)</div></div></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5042539816_8b5a8bff85.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You'll see the back side of this quilt in more detail later.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5041919181_9eb6a6a0be.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">the all-in-one technique (open to press, after serging)</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4089/5042546884_083a08c3df.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Then press it all down firmly from both sides before stitching the next panel</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5042545288_e69b1a56f8.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4086/5042548836_294b337ca9.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Meantime a small cutie romps on another new quilt on the couch!</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4110/5041782693_1761aed59e.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div><br />
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</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-54940450073363546032011-02-17T18:17:00.001-08:002011-02-17T18:18:40.698-08:00Koi and Bubbles<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">Another really fun one. Again, I wish I had a better photography situation--just doesn't do it justice. (from September 2010)</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This was the biggest piece I could get from my daughter's dress fabric from the '90s.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/4969740795_958648581c.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back side, finished quilt</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4105/4969741647_76181df381.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished quilt</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/4969739033_f662d547d1.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-68830926685156979902011-02-17T18:10:00.000-08:002011-02-17T18:18:26.521-08:00Aunt Lindy's Paperdolls<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif;">This is such a fun piece of fabric--so very old fashioned. My daughter had a tiny print for years which matched perfectly! (finished in September 2010)</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Close-up of the dollies (the fabric really is called, "Aunt Lindy's Paperdolls")</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4084/4970349146_3a6f6017e5.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back side of finished quilt</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4107/4970350006_e3a2130411.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished quilt</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4130/4970347978_8b80e065ef.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I don't have a close-up of the contrast fabric, nor the binding, which matched really well.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-12062919561652826622011-01-10T17:10:00.000-08:002011-03-28T08:49:43.430-07:00e-mail from a Princess to her Princess Grandma<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Dear Grandma,</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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<div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Today I went to "Quilt Camp" at Nana's. I did a LOT of the work, but I am quick to say I did not do "all" of the sewing. Nana did some, too. We made a dolly quilt.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I held the fabric as it went into the serger. I pulled pins out of the fabric and put them on Nana's big magnet pin holder. I chose the squares for the quilt from Nana's "stash" of squares. Of course I wanted to choose pink. Later she let me choose the backing material; I liked the green better than the pink for that part. I chose VERY pink thread for the quilting stitches.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A couple of times Nana let me push the pins through the fabric with a little bit of her help. I helped her smooth the top and the "stuffing" and the backing fabric before we quilted it. She pinned the big safety pins in it, but I helped steer it through her big sewing machine to put "squares" in it that I could see on the back.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nana had to put LOTS of pins in to make the edge of my quilt. Then I helped steer it through the big sewing machine, and now I have a dolly quilt! I said, "Nana, it's a LOT of work making a quilt".</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Today when I took it home, I decided it was a kitty bed. I was the kitty, and I curled up in a ball and snuggled on it. (I think I want my Nana to make ME a quilt pretty soon!)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I wanted to show you a picture of my quilt, because I am very proud. It's very tricky sewing in a straight line when I keep slipping off Nana's lap! It was fun pushing the "scissors" button so it would cut the thread. Then I pushed the button with a picture of a presser foot on it. That made the foot lift up so I could get my quilt off the machine. It's kind of noisy when it moves.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4769808879_a59b42b235.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nana's big machine did a pretty cool trick and put my name on my quilt so I could "sign it". (She told me her teacher said "real quilters" sign their quilts these days.) I told her I wanted my name RIGHT in the MIDDLE! Then it put the year on there, too, so I won't ever forget when I made it.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I liked the "squares" on the back, but Nana's picture is pretty fuzzy.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4770449742_c09deb65e6_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Nana has been practicing making quilts for little girls in South Korea. She is getting better at making them now, so we did a pretty good job on this one.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I hope you like my quilt Grandma!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[Someone asked: It's 16" x 22"]</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">[And, yes, Nana see the mistake she made when laying out the squares.... oops]</span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br />
</span></span></div></div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-36553004322783756202011-01-10T17:08:00.001-08:002011-01-10T17:08:36.515-08:00Crazy Panes<div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I have just realized that I never posted my third quilt for Korea!</span></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">And here it is (with my usual crunchy-on-the-left photo taken in the breeze and rotated to the right)</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1244/4729207325_24b6872a05.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">The backing/binding are a very soft yellow fabric with a sweet little pattern which does not show up in the photos</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1013/4729856024_7914e33bf6.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
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</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">While I was waiting for my daughter to cut the squares for the fourth quilt (long story on that one coming soon), I went to my box of 6-1/2-inch squares I am accumulating and started playing around making 9-patch squares. I had a bunch of fairly coordinated squares from projects I had worked on recently, so I just started putting them together to see what happened. (In the end I bought two additional fabrics to finish my last two 9-patches.) </div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">After a while I had several squares and it started to become a serious quilt project. In order to achieve the final size I wanted, I had to tie them all together with some strips. In the end it looks rather like window panes--hence the name--crazy squares and window panes.</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">If I were setting out from scratch to make this quilt, I would have used more of the same squares to achieve a very unified look, but this was scraps so it became "crazy" 9-patches.</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I laid it all out and believed I was sewing it together the way it was on my floor. Then I layered it on the floor and pinned it in place for quilting. Fortunately I did NOT begin the quilting stitching immediately. Nor apparently, had I really LOOKED at my squares placement.</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Later in the day I just happened to glance at it on the floor and a mistake in positioning two of the 9-patch squares fairly leaped out at me! I couldn't believe I had missed it earlier! (As my mom said when I told her, "It happens." She has made 40-45 quilts--properly quilted by hand.)</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">So I had to un-pin the whole thing, remove the top, and disassemble a chunk from the middle. (Remember it is all serged together--lots of fun when ripping stitches...) Here is the hole it left</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4058/4719674483_34df58833f.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I took the two squares apart and reversed their positions. I couldn't just reverse this section, because the one uniform thing I had done throughout was to make the diagonal from bottom left to top right in each 9-patch of the same fabric, as you see here. So I had to take it apart to maintain the correct direction of my pattern.</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4719672973_f7d135873b.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">Here it is--reassembled, re-smoothed, and re-pinned! (Oh my aching knees!) NOW I'm ready to run the quilting stitches. If I had not discovered my error before the stitching was in place I would have felt really ill. I would have left it that way and been very upset about it.</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4031/4720326582_5a26ed4bc3.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I had some difficulty in running the stitches. I think part of it was the extremely soft backing, but later they discovered my needle position was not absolutely at the right place. But finally it was all stitched and ready to do the binding. I am again wrapping the backing over the front to form the binding. </div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4066/4719678017_b2ba419447.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;">I rather like the end result of this spur-of-the-moment project. And my half-Japanese/American cousin said, "It's Asian looking!" I'm happy.</div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><br />
</div></div><div></div></div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-90977302113380354312011-01-10T17:07:00.000-08:002011-02-17T21:36:03.488-08:00Crazy Panes Update<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">My early quilts were far too large for the sleeping mats they use at the orphanage in S. Korea, so I had to separate the big ones.</span><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Apparently I only took a photograph of one of them.</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Except on the line</div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4103/5045239466_49f95f83ea.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px;" /></div><div style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-35701359020049790322011-01-10T17:06:00.000-08:002011-01-10T17:14:05.938-08:00Look What a Few Scraps Will Make!<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Before I took my first quilting class, I would have thrown these narrow strips left over from her "big-girl" quilt into the trash. Just look what they made for her dolly!</span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"></span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
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<div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4102/4737905802_8b3160bb45.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And every dolly needs her very own cosy quilt--made with batting, quilted like the big one, and backed and self-bound with the scraps.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4078/4737921086_513df2be87.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Back</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4121/4737931732_94298bf880.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-67141898987608557642011-01-10T17:04:00.001-08:002011-01-10T17:04:33.693-08:00Kids Around the World - Finished<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished Quilt</span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1312/4729213861_c90edc5d6c.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">There's that wind blowing the bottom (on the left side of photo) again...</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You can see the effect of the variegated quilting thread in the detail post for this quilt (below).</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I used a coordinating stripey fabric for the backing and self-binding.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1128/4729862866_1ee535fb0d.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;">Destination: Il San, for a precious little girl</span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><br />
</span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="line-height: normal;">Please see "detail" post for this quilt (below) for close-ups and other information.</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 19px;"><span style="line-height: normal;"><br />
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</span></span></span></div><div></div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-45640116723286360192011-01-10T17:02:00.001-08:002011-01-10T17:02:29.520-08:00Kids Around the World - Details<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Before I did the actual quilting stitch on my "test quilt" top (previous post - "Pink and Sweet"), I wasn't too enamored of it's appearance, so I decided to select new pieces for the little girl in Korea. I went to the store for some other stuff, and I was completely unprepared for buying what I needed. I remembered some of the numbers from the pink one, so I selected my four prints and a solid, plus fabric for the backing.</span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The kind lady at the store drew it out and tried to help me calculate my yardage requirements. She did really well on the prints, but my solid was over 50% short and the backing was also 50% short. <i>The moral is: </i><b>Be prepared!</b></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I am a "spreadsheet kind of girl", so in frustration I made a spreadsheet so I would only have to make ONE more trip to the store. (Often I just say, 'oh give me xxx' and I add in a lot of extra, but I was trying to be good because this stuff is NOT cheap, so I tried to purchase just what I needed plus a little for shrinkage and straightening.)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i>[Caveat emptor: Should you decide to follow these numbers, there are no guarantees as to their accuracy.]</i></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><br />
</i></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><i><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4737447570_d256296648.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></i></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: red;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">With my spreadsheet, I hope I can make fewer trips to the store.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The spreadsheet is very useful in assembling the quilt top as well. I stacked my squares, Solid, then A-B-C-D in order on the table by my serger, with a Post-It note label for each stack. Then I worked my way through each row. As each row was finished, I used a Sharpie marker to put a line through that row--eliminating confusion.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">At first I hung the rows up with blue tape on my desk so I could see them, but with the spreadsheet I just laid them over the ironing board in order.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The old adage, measure twice and cut once is SO true, and in this case, check your squares AS you assemble.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i><br />
</i></b></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><b><i>Tips:</i></b></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. Count the number of squares in each row--then you won't have to pull out your stitches because you got carried away and added an extra one on the end!</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">2. READ the spreadsheet!</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">3. Don't forget to draw a line through the rows as you complete them.</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The whole top was serged together. I know, I know!!! purists won't like this, but I'm really happy with it right now--especially since my serger can "take up" a little excess fabric and help me join my squares together better if a fabric is soft and stretches a little. The awkward part is that it all goes under the big serger foot and one can no longer see, nor control, what happens very well.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As I pinned the rows and seams together I ran the pin through the stitching on BOTH sides of the quilt top. I found that if I left the pin in until the last minute, then removed it, and held my left hand firmly on the seam, it worked pretty well--just DON'T run over a pin!</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Once while attaching two rows I actually used a basting stitch to hold it in place, but it wasn't any better than I was doing without that step, so I didn't bother after that. I was just very careful as I approached each seam.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As I pressed my rows before stitching together I made sure each row's seams were going the opposite direction from the previous ones. Then I got the least seam effect on the top. When putting them through the serger, one must be careful to keep them going opposite directions. (Advice I have read says make them all go the SAME way.)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So, the top is together--nice and cheerful. more like I envisioned</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4026/4688012369_99a809e69e.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Part of the quilt top</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4688014043_0305b7a17d.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Close-ups of the pattern squares</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4032/4688652644_111e823872.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4688021507_2ff9d27e80.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4023/4688656584_fe3c7eea7e.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1278/4688025295_a1fe0207e8.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Maybe some time I will remember to take photos of the elaborate process of placing the backing on the cleaned floor, then layering the batting--straightening it, then adding the top. Each step requires a great deal of crawling around on knees. B<b><i>egin in the middle</i></b>, <u>s</u><i><u>traightening, smoothing, and flattening to the outside edges</u></i>. My younger daughter helped me with those steps, which made it a great deal easier. In fact after a while she ran me OFF so she could flatten it by herself after we added each layer! (She's not bossy on anything like that <img goomoji="330" src="https://mail.google.com/mail/e/330" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0.2ex; margin-right: 0.2ex; margin-top: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" />!)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">After it is as good as you can get it, <b>use quilt safety pins</b> starting in the center and pin every few squares.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">When it is all layered and pinned, I placed it on my "sewing table" (which is my nice dining table, with four deepish plastic boxes to raise it and help my back, then a piece of 40 x 60 plywood, and lastly a thick plastic gridded mat--expensive, but SO worth it!). It doesn't look too swift, but it works!</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">In this case I wanted to use the backing as the binding on the front, with 1/2-in. of the batting sticking out past the top so as to create an edge around the whole of the top.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Here you see the raw assemblage before cutting</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4015/4688027009_bc614d86f1.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">First I cut the batting to about 3/4-in. larger than the top. Then I cut the backing at least 1-1/2-in. larger than the batting, as above. The batting is a little larger than I actually want on purpose--I will trim it again after I do the quilting.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I chose a varigated thread with all of my colors in it. It is 100% polyester, which caused difficulties, but the colors are very rich.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I put diagonal lines through all the solid squares, like this</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4041/4688178355_9b6d20ec77.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Than I ran a row across the square in the opposite direction. Close-up shows the quilting stitch I chose.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4028/4688187939_6104346e87.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My machine said I should use foot "J" for this stitch--WRONG!!! My Warm and Natural batting is thicker and after removing TOO many stitches I called for advice. They said try the <b>"walking foot"</b>--problem mostly solved. (Perhaps with cotton thread "J" would have been ok; I don't know.)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My machine's thread-cutter also couldn't handle my thread--it kept getting stuck and between that and gunking up miles of loops on the underside of the quilt I was pretty frustrated. I finally started doing the "old way"--no automatic thread cutting--just lift the needle and the presser foot and drag out several inches of thread each time you stop. Cut with scissors. This eliminated the need for disassembling the entire thing every few minutes, removing threads, vacuuming, reassembling, then pulling stitches out and removing all the threads! (Gave myself a rotten headache the first night doing this for too long.)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Also, I made a bigger effort to NOT pull on the quilt from behind the presser foot as I stitched. I have a larger "table" that came with my machine--creating a much larger sewing area--it's AWESOME. I finally learned to just hold both sides of the sewing, line it up with the needle from corner to corner, and push lightly to raise it off the surface and let the walking foot do it's job. My rows were MUCH straighter than the pink quilt when I did this!</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I'm pretty pleased with the straightness of the quilting stitch rows.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4688185991_e981362f90.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So all the quilting stitches are in place, and it's back on the table ready for the final trimming of the batting. I trimmed it down to 1/2" from the top.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4010/4690012748_a51e6156f1.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now it's time to fold the backing over the batting. Pin horizontally very near the edge of the batting so you can do the second fold more easily.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4689379555_8e478ab238.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Pin the corners carefully</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4049/4689381133_f85c2ff53f.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I wanted a 2-cm strip of the backing showing all around the quilt, so I folded the remainder under.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4689382759_3ea2ac372f.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">To eliminate bulk, I trimmed the corner horizontally</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4689384193_ed93982e47.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Then I pinned a neat corner</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4019/4689385667_1512c82667.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">On the long ends and sides I first pinned it vertically</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1270/4689389803_56963955c9.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Then I pinned it horizontally and removed the vertical pins, which allows for adjusting it over the length. Make sure to pin the horizontal ones in the proper direction for removing them as you sew around the perimeter of the quilt!</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4057/4689387775_7166af1509.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">After pinning across one end, about 2-feet of each side, and the corners, roll it carefully over so you can shift the quilt to do the next session.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4065/4689391265_5cf7864748_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /> <img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4068/4690027332_006d366fe0_m.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">As you go down each long side, continue to roll until you reach the other end.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4045/4690028632_5d1b114a3c.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">After it is completely pinned, steam all around the edges (with pins in place). It will sew more tidily if you steam it down.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4007/4689396549_c3a01a7f5c.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Make certain your bobbin won't run out (especially if you are using polyester thread) while stitching all the way around--leaving the beginning and ending threads long enough to capture and tuck.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Then make a knot with the two threads on the front side (or pull through to back). Insert into a needle and stitch down the row an inch or sew, then hide the needle, pull out and clip.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4046/4690032750_c6cf4196d4.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Repeat the process for any threads hanging onthe back side.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And here it is!</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4001/4690034478_caae5aab5e.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It is heavy and it will be very warm on a cold Korean winter night. (And I like it!)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I did the proper test run of my "signature" for the quilt on the exact batting and fabrics and it worked perfectly. Then I did it on the quilt and it messed up so badly I had to take every tiny stitch out and start over. I did a second "test run"--perfect. Then I started it on the quilt again and AGAIN--it screwed up!</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I had not used any stabilizer for the tests, nor the finals--maybe that's my problem! I'm going to take it in and get some advice (and I'm going to feel really silly if it's all about the stabilizer--but then why didn't it screw up on my test strips????).</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">===</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Later: the guy at the store suspects I may either have been too close to the binding edge and the pressure foot was distorted by this OR it may be the weight of the whole quilt causing my problem. Like me, he ran a perfect "test strip" of my signature and it was beautiful.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I think next time I will put it into a different part of the square as I did on the pink one, which would at least get rid of a possible binding/pressure foot problem.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I will add to this post when I've tried one more time to apply my signature to this quilt!</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div></div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-49831581170166948052011-01-10T17:00:00.001-08:002011-01-10T17:06:30.208-08:00Pink and Sweet - Finished<div style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;">Finished quilt</span></span></div></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"></span></span></span><br />
<div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1030/4729866172_bc08ae34f6.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;">I used a satin-finish, soft, plain, really wide white fabric for the backing. The binding is from one of the fabrics in the quilt.</span></span></span></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1348/4729868578_efd4df1a4b.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;">Destination: Holt Korea's Il San location, the Linda House. There are mostly "special needs" people there.</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;">Please see "detail" post for this quilt (below) for close-ups and other information.</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">(And yes, they look all "wavy" on one side. That's because my husband resolved my difficulties in taking pictures of completed quilts by suggesting that I hang them from the eave. It works really well--only the wind was blowing and that's the bottom of the quilts! I rotated the photos to fit them in here.)</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'times new roman';">[Someone asked: finished size of dolly quilt is 19-1/2" x 25-1/2". This is very generous. The one I made with my granddaughter (later post) is 16" x 22", which is fine. It just happened that the squares determined the smaller one, and the scraps determined this one.]</span></span></span></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #550055; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></span></span></div></div><div></div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-9742183410994578762011-01-10T16:59:00.001-08:002011-01-10T17:06:18.799-08:00Pink and Sweet - Details<div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Other than the class project all-in-one-step serged baby quilt [see Archive: Reversible Baby Quilt - Details] I have not made a quilt of any sort in many years. Back then, I helped with some quilts, made a baby comforter for my girls (not pieced) and pieced squares for a dolly quilt or two, so I'm really starting from scratch.</span></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I decided to use as a solid the remains of an old pink sheet which have been haunting me for years. Then make alternate squares of stuff from my stash and new fabrics. I am not going to give the details, because following this I made another one of the same design. I am going to provide details in that posting so as not to be repetitious.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A couple close-ups of the fabrics I used</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4008/4687700014_9214c06be7.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4042/4687700760_06e4a252a6.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Most squares came together really well</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4054/4687068941_85fd3dcbeb.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">A few didn't</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1266/4687703276_94ae4dcd4a.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Finished back of quilt top</span></div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1266/4687704190_666794a10c.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Quilt top, ready for assembling with batting and backing (OH, my aching knees!)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4027/4687699220_91d05fd466.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Close-up of quilting stitch. I learned a lot about how to keep it straight that I applied to the next quilt, which came out really well. I also learned not to use the "default" setting--the stitches should have been much "longer". (impossible to tear out, and TRUST ME, I DID tear a bunch out! I did mention this was a 'learning process", right?)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4060/4688815726_8269c963bf.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Top, batting, and backing all quilted together. What a difference the stitching made! Previously the solid pink was pretty blah. It really made it all "come alive"!</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><img src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4053/4688180199_8b243022a4.jpg" style="border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; cursor: move;" /></span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Now all it's ready for the binding around the edges. (see post above)</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I got the directions I misunderstood on the baby quilt now and it works quite well! I don't know if it works as well for wider bindings, but 2 cm seems to work pretty well.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">My problem was that I did NOT stop sewing 1/4-inch BEFORE the seam allowance for the next size. When you do that, it works quite well.</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div></div><div><div style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Also, next time I will use the normal method of sewing together the strips by placing two at a 90 degree angle and sewing diagonally across to form a continuous strip. I don't like the thickness and/or lumpiness of using the method described in the baby quilt posting. One may have to use that for the last connection (where the strip joins itself), but I'm going to see if I can avoid even that one.</span></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div></div>Nana-Bhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16539413963058893657noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7518754401659856322.post-45093284408417733692011-01-10T16:58:00.000-08:002011-02-17T21:42:40.510-08:00Pink and Sweet Update<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><tbody>
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