Fabric too pretty to cut!
10-27-2014, 06:19 AM
#23
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Pretty fabric is like teenage true love. You are heartbroken over the split up of the love of your life until the next love of your life comes along. I find fabric that I think is the most beautiful ever and have to have every time I go to a quilt shop.
10-27-2014, 06:27 AM
#24
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Originally Posted by Farm Quilter
Well, if you don't use that beautiful fabric sometime, someone else will get it for a steal and will happily use it! I know that I am digging into my "too pretty to cut" fabrics because I want to use them before I die and my family sells it for $1 a pound!!!
Today when I visited my mother, we went on a charity shop crawl....cool fun and got Mum some lovely clothes and accessories. I picked up two sets of pillowcases, good quality cotton, Australian made, still in the cellophane wrapper....must be about 30-40 years old and completely untouched. When I got to the counter I said "seems like someone saved them for best", "Yeah and obviously never used them - what are you going to do with them, they look good quality". Unwrap them, wash them and use them said I.....now to apply that to 'stash'
10-27-2014, 06:56 AM
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What I would like to know is if you find a great picture and then use it to draw out your own pattern, are you breaking any kind of copywright? I loved that quilt too and it did not take me very long to figure out some measurements that would work. I don't know if I came up with the same measurements as the pattern designer used or not. I don't plan on making a pattern for sale or churning out dozens of these quilts but will use my measurements to make a quilt for my grandson. If I show it at my guild quilt show, can I just say it was inspired by ....... and give the name of the designer?
10-27-2014, 08:20 AM
#26
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I used to have the hardest time cutting into those oh so beautiful fabrics... and finding just the perfect pattern to honor such a wonderful textile. Now that I have had several of those too beautiful to cut fabrics accumulate and now don't seem quite as awesome, or have found to hard way finding complementary fabrics nearly impossible, I use them. As one thing is for sure, there will always be another too beautiful to cut fabric I just have to have.
10-27-2014, 11:56 AM
#28
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Originally Posted by Leslie333
I have a print I got to make a quilt "eventually" for DH and had just a yard and wasn't sure what to do. I came across this pattern this weekend to keep the main print in one piece. Plus, it's a quick quilt which is important since I've decided to do it for our anniversary in a month. Since I'm doing it as a surprise it had to be pretty quick to piece, then I'll have to find ways to get him out of the house to quilt it.
http://www.quiltwoman.com/The-Crafts...t-Pattern.aspx
http://www.quiltwoman.com/The-Crafts...t-Pattern.aspx
10-27-2014, 12:56 PM
#29
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I organized my fabric when I retired in the spring. I have so many panels that I will never use. I going to use them for backing. I plan on taking one and using bigger pieces of fabric that I bought because I liked it with no plan in mind and bordering the panel with it for backs.
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