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Marianne, Those blocks look so different , Because of the fabrics you have used. As for the waviness, I am sure that you can 'quilt that out'
  as for cutting your sashing from different directions, because that was all the fabric you had, who cares especially since it is not a directional fabric design. I was originally taught that in appplique you had to have all the grainlines matching - but that doesn't seem to be the rule for all the great applique quilts you see winning big prizes  So I guess the rules are really just guidelines for help, not hinderance  . |
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It's always great fun to hear where and how people have got into patchwork and quilting. I guess coming from a family of dressmakers on my mum's side and embroiderers on my dad's side I've always thought growing up it was a natural thing to do but it was a huge eye opener coming to school and being branded as terrible in home ec even having my knitting held up in front of class and told this was How NOT to KNIT!
 My dad threw a fit - not an easy thing to induce!  If I'd only ever learnt through school I would never have been sewing/knitting/embroidering today that's for sure.I've been busy tackling my WTDL and the “top” of the embroidery machine cover is finished. Once again I committed 2 cardinal sins – first one not to cut the sashing and borders all in the same thread direction and secondly I didn’t measure the borders and sashing accurately enough so I have wavy sashing and borders. Seeing I only had limited fabric and wasn’t sure I really liked my second fabric choice (the first was a darker green that looked great but wouldn’t go with the other machine cover I made and the machines sit next to each other) I don’t care.  I will WFQ it with a plain calico backing (I think although the jury is out on that one) – I can always turn it inside out if I really don’t like it when it’s finished! Marianne PS some people may recognise the blocks - they are some of the over 100 blocks I pieced during Laura Nownes class way back in 2012. I've used others for some big bags for my sewing area and covers for the sewing machines. |
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Interesting quilting stories. Some of my first quilts were inspired by Georgia Bonesteel's Lap Quilting, except I did the lap quilting on the sewing machine. And my applique was fused and machine stitched through all layers one block at a time as early as 1975 so there was no quilting needed. I believe they call that appliquilting now.
This month I'm working on my DBIL's quilt. In fact I will be making 2 quilts, 1 for him and 1 for their king size bed as his wife didn't want a forest/wildlife quilt for a bedspread. She chose a block called Crystals from a McCalls website. I'm searching everywhere for teal fabrics. I found a lot of choices on line and had my DD help me choose the ones she liked the best. I'm hoping to add some brown to the quilt, maybe if I can find a fabric I like that has both colors. Now for some time to go shopping to see if any of the local stores I haven't been to yet have at least some of the fabrics. My 6 yr. old DGD wanted to sort the fabric swatches that weren't chosen. We weren't too surprised by the way she sorted them as she has done something like that before. There was 1 with a heart, there was a stack with a ruler at the bottom of the fabric, there was a smallest one, there was a stack with a Sale sign, there was a stack with a Shabby Fabrics circle, and there was 1 that said fabric.com. I would have sorted them by color or value!  |
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