Has anyone here made a whole cloth quilt? How large was it? Even though I'm only on my 2nd quilt, I'm dreaming of the day when I'll attempt my first whole cloth. I'll likely start small though - around 20 inches square.

I finished a whole cloth quilt several months back. It was a full sized quilt and the hardest part was picking and marking the design. I used freezer paper and butcher paper, marked 1/4 of the quilt at a time working from the paper that I taped to my husbands pool table, laying the quilt top over it, and tracing. After that it was quite easy.
There are lots of books and patterns out there. I used a book from Fons and Porter and they made it a lot easier. It was lots of feathrs and the methods to make your own patterns was easy to follow. If I can dig it out I will send you the name.
You will enjoy the process and the result I feel sure.
Good luck, Pam

Best you make a small item first. I made a queen size and took me 3 years (winters) and I won blue ribbons at quilt shows. It wasn't something I could rush and I made regular quilts in between to keep me sane. Love it but now my arthritis has gotten worse and it is out of the question. Now I am completely limited to what I do as my fingers don't co-operate and do some machine quilting. :P

I bought a whole cloth quilt kit -- it's about 40" wide. The pineapple pattern is already marked. It will be my next "project".... :D

my first quilt was a queen whole cloth quilt. Took almost 4 years, but it is amazing. it was a kit from. quiltingstencils.com This is the one I did.

http://quiltingstencils.com/pennsylv...een-white.aspx

Would love to see a picture of the finished quilt -- that's just gorgeous! Did you do the white quilt with white thread thing? My kit is white and I was thinking about quilting with an off white thread. Would that look dumb??

I did that one with cream on muslin, so it matched. then I did a preprint with contrasting thread and it looked ok but I wasn't as much of a fan. I am gald that one was a small sampler.

WOW k -- all 3 are gorgeous!! Thanks for posting these for me! Think I'll stick to the white on white :roll: :D

Yeah I like that best too. I called my wholecloth "White on White by White" when I entered it into a show.

Now that's cool!! Did you get a blue ribbon??????? If not, you should have! :D

Thanks. It was a kit so they would not consider it for a ribbon. I didn't know that when I entered or I would not have entered it at all. I got an Honorable Mention. I was pretty upset about it. I haven't entered anything since.

Now that's just not right and a mean thing to do to you!! :evil:

Very Clever!!! I love it!! 8)
Those are some purty quilts K!!! :D :D :D

I have done a small wall hanging that I marked from a stencil that I bought years ago. It is white on white. I am thinking about doing a larger one. It does look nice. Will try to find it to take a photo.

Please don't get discouraged. It happens from time to time if it goes into the wrong class, wrong size and so on. Make sure you know what the rules are. Quilting is always a learning experience and although I am 76 I learn something new all the time or am forced to remember something that I forgot long ago. Now you have to make sure if it goes into a machine quilted or hand quilted class also.

This company has lots of smaller projects you can work on, too.
quiltingstencils.com/
I think they're really good practice for hand quilting because you don't have to deal with seams!

Here's the very first one I did, and I was thrilled with how will it came out!

Wow Harmony -- Just gorgeous!!

Yes it is.

Kwhite--I just love your little dancer! Every time I see it, it makes me smile! :D

Your whole cloths are just amazing!!! I love them, and I think you should have been given a blue ribbon. What beautiful work, and this is onmy long list of quilts to do.

Very beautiful, Harmony!!

I did a whole cloth quilt in the 2nd class I took (3rd quilt). It was lap sized, pattern was "French Bedroom" by Favorite Things (I think).
It was not too hard. I marked the quilt on top of a glass kitchen table, with a lamp on the floor. Much easier than doing it on a small light box or window!

The center of the pattern is a double line cross hatch, so easy to do once it was marked. Just took a long time. The reason I took the class is the border is marked vine and leaves, and it was free motion quilting (still working on that ability!)