Tip for beginner quilters
#22
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Massachusetts
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I have "Quilt Journal" by Fairfield that I've had for years. There are pages for photos and comments. I include who it's for, when it was made, size, pattern, any info I want to include. I recently got "Quilt Album" for my computer and it allows me to document much more information and add as many pictures as I want. www.quiltalbum.com I can also make greeting cards and many other things. It's a very versatile program. I'm still learning to use it to its full capacity.
Thanks gramajo.
#23
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 1,857
I take a picture, load it onto the computer, write a short note about it - date, size, occasion or person, approx. cost, anything weird in making it. I have one flash drive dedicated to quilts. Easier to retrieve and much smaller to save than a journal. I am SLOWLY working on getting all my to do list quilts onto the computer and out of the drawers, files, notebooks, stacks....around my workroom. And really deciding if they are really a to do item or just a passing thought!
#24
I have been quilting for a long time, and today I am starting a baby quilt for nephew and wife's second child. I made one for the first born and I was thinking I really wish I knew what size quilt I made for him. I have a picture of it, but can't tell how big it is. Anyway, I know that I have seen where some of you have made journals or notebooks of quilts you have made and I really, really wish I had started it from the first quilt I ever made. So, that is my tip for beginning quilters. Get a notebook with protective sheets and put a picture and any information in it that you think you might use later on down the road, ie: pattern, fabrics, pictures, and size, etc., etc., etc.
#25
I have kept a journal of all my quilts since I started quilting 10 years ago. Each has a photo along with a photo of the label. Some have special stories or pics of the recipients included. The journal itself has a strip-pieced cover made of left over Thimbleberries fabrics over a 1 inch binder with clear sleeves. I have also made a couple of these journals for friends.
One was given several years to a dear quilting friend who
passed away earlier this year just 2 weeks before her 100th birthday! After I gave her the journal (which she loved) several members of our quilt group helped make and attach labels, then photographed each of her quilts and placed the pics in the journal. Her son, who is a very good friend, recently told me how much the family appreciated the journal when they were dividing her quilts among the heirs.
If you know someone who quilts, it's never too late to encourage and help them label, photograph, and journal their treasures.
One was given several years to a dear quilting friend who
passed away earlier this year just 2 weeks before her 100th birthday! After I gave her the journal (which she loved) several members of our quilt group helped make and attach labels, then photographed each of her quilts and placed the pics in the journal. Her son, who is a very good friend, recently told me how much the family appreciated the journal when they were dividing her quilts among the heirs.
If you know someone who quilts, it's never too late to encourage and help them label, photograph, and journal their treasures.
#26
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Join Date: Jul 2014
Location: Illinois
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I never used to even photograph my quilts. My sister got me to start doing so after a quilt I made for her youngest. But it was my 4 year old niece (who LOVES quilting! I gave her a design wall for her birthday that she loves playing with) who inspired me to start keeping more information. I made her a little book that tells the story of her quilt being made -- fabrics, layout, tracing the applique shapes, construction, marking, quilting -- through Shutterfly; I still need to have it printed (I want to get one pic with her and the quilt together first) but documenting the process has been so wonderful. I'm thinking of doing that for all my quilts so that when people ask either "hey! Can I get one of those?" or "why are your quilts so expensive?", I can show them all the work that goes into it.
I also keep a couple spreadsheets that track my thread inventory & what fabrics I used in which quilt. I find this is especially helpful to do at the beginning so if I run out of something mid-project, it is fairly easy to source more of whatever I need.
I also keep a couple spreadsheets that track my thread inventory & what fabrics I used in which quilt. I find this is especially helpful to do at the beginning so if I run out of something mid-project, it is fairly easy to source more of whatever I need.
#27
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Texas
Posts: 983
I finally started a serious journal (serious as in the present quilt) instead of just who it's for without the picture downloaded and the total time it took me to make (including sewing, ironing, ripping out stitches etc.) The final quilt. I have an electric clock plugged into safe power strip that I now turn on every time I work on a certain quilt. These are all excellent ideas for a quilt journal! Thank you again QB people and friends.
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