Commissioned for a College-Bound Graduate
06-05-2015, 05:19 PM
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Commissioned for a College-Bound Graduate
Just finished this quilt for a grad, in the school colors of the college he is going to. He was his class valedictorian. His mom ordered this quilt as a graduation gift.
It's a twin XL for the dorm bed... a bit too big for me to handle on my Juki, so a friend offered her long arm machine. This is the first quilt I have ever done on a long arm. I just did a simple big meander because I thought that was about as far as I could reach on my first try!
It's a twin XL for the dorm bed... a bit too big for me to handle on my Juki, so a friend offered her long arm machine. This is the first quilt I have ever done on a long arm. I just did a simple big meander because I thought that was about as far as I could reach on my first try!
06-05-2015, 07:19 PM
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I should advise that disappearing hourglass is NOT easy to quilt, because the pieces end up mostly on the bias. I tried to straight line quilt it on my machine first and it just was not happening so I took it to the longarm, thinking that stretching it out on the frame would help. But nooooo... it was still a pain to keep the wrinkles from forming. I wonder if you can start out with bias cut squares for the DH and then you end up with on-grain blocks? Might experiment and try that, because it is such a cool block.
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