okie dokie smarties i need advice!
10-17-2010, 10:47 AM
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I want to make a quilt for my lovely boss for christmas...I have all the fabrics and a lovely matching fleece for the back. I'd like to do a quilt as you go so I can definitely get it done in time. I don't want to have strips on the fleece backing so I figured I'd attach the back pieces together after each piece is quilted and leave the strips for the front. My problem is I do not want a lot of sashing to "match" ( cuz i know it all won't) on the front. So then my thought was to quilt-as-i-go with either a) a muslin backing and then baste to the fleece as a top and and hand quilt--it would be a lot less handquilting than usual. OR b) i can nix the muslin and use a warm and natural batting or thin fleece and then baste as a quilt with a little handquilting.
My main problem is deciding on a pattern that will allow me to split the lap quilt into 3 main pieces and not have weird sashing throwing it off. Anyone of you smarties have an idea as to a pattern I could use that wouldn't accentuate the sashing in the front??
My main problem is deciding on a pattern that will allow me to split the lap quilt into 3 main pieces and not have weird sashing throwing it off. Anyone of you smarties have an idea as to a pattern I could use that wouldn't accentuate the sashing in the front??
10-17-2010, 11:11 AM
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hmmm, i made one with backing fabric for each square larger, then sewed two sqs together with the backing as the seam, then folded one blks backing over and over again onto one block. pinned. then folded the other backing over and over onto the other block. blanket stitched them down and continued adding blks this way until i had a row. then sewed rows together this way.
back with two backing fabrics
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front
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close up
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10-17-2010, 11:27 AM
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Originally Posted by nativetexan
hmmm, i made one with backing fabric for each square larger, then sewed two sqs together with the backing as the seam, then folded one blks backing over and over again onto one block. pinned. then folded the other backing over and over onto the other block. blanket stitched them down and continued adding blks this way until i had a row. then sewed rows together this way.
Are we talking here about a process more or less like the lovely
Cathedral Window? Otherwise I'm kinda confused, but the end result is sure pretty. And it looks sturdy and should last many years.
10-17-2010, 11:29 AM
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Originally Posted by adyldrop
I want to make a quilt for my lovely boss for christmas...I have all the fabrics and a lovely matching fleece for the back. I'd like to do a quilt as you go so I can definitely get it done in time. I don't want to have strips on the fleece backing so I figured I'd attach the back pieces together after each piece is quilted and leave the strips for the front. My problem is I do not want a lot of sashing to "match" ( cuz i know it all won't) on the front. So then my thought was to quilt-as-i-go with either a) a muslin backing and then baste to the fleece as a top and and hand quilt--it would be a lot less handquilting than usual. OR b) i can nix the muslin and use a warm and natural batting or thin fleece and then baste as a quilt with a little handquilting.
My main problem is deciding on a pattern that will allow me to split the lap quilt into 3 main pieces and not have weird sashing throwing it off. Anyone of you smarties have an idea as to a pattern I could use that wouldn't accentuate the sashing in the front??
My main problem is deciding on a pattern that will allow me to split the lap quilt into 3 main pieces and not have weird sashing throwing it off. Anyone of you smarties have an idea as to a pattern I could use that wouldn't accentuate the sashing in the front??
10-17-2010, 11:53 AM
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Kaye Wood has a quilt as you go pattern and it has no sashing.
http://www.kayewood.com/item/6_Hour_...E_Book/406/c54
You can make it as big as you want. I have made several.
http://www.kayewood.com/item/6_Hour_...E_Book/406/c54
You can make it as big as you want. I have made several.
10-17-2010, 12:05 PM
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Originally Posted by adyldrop
i want to use batting. I just don't want to have seams all along the fleece batting. Or seams running along the front that don't match up...
Quilt as you go is done block by block as a rule. You might be able to do a quilt as you go if you make each block and then do a sort of quilt as you go in just the block seams and sew them to the fleece whole. But that still leaves out batting.
10-17-2010, 12:08 PM
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that's why i was thinking to do a block by block quilt as i go and then once i have a top done then baste that and hand quilt a bit to the fleece backing. That way i don't have to hand quilt every seam and it's more managable when I do quilt it to have it half-quilted so to speak.
10-17-2010, 12:10 PM
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Originally Posted by adyldrop
that's why i was thinking to do a block by block quilt as i go and then once i have a top done then baste that and hand quilt a bit to the fleece backing. That way i don't have to hand quilt every seam and it's more managable when I do quilt it to have it half-quilted so to speak.
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