20K quilt
02-07-2016, 08:11 AM
#44
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Join Date: Dec 2015
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Thanks everyone for the nice words and the welcome!
I guess I should clarify.... I finished this quilt this year however I started it last spring. I got the 1/2 square triangle blocks made and the log cabin blocks made then got a wild hair to make the two neighbor kids and 12 grand kids a twin size or bigger quilt. That Kind of ate up my summer into fall. I finally got back on this in December and got it all pieced. I am not sure how many hours it took, as I just worked on it an hour here and there. I started long arming in January and it took 50 hours to do stitch by the ditch and all the other things! This is my second quilt that I did ruler work on (well one other but it wasn't much ruler work) That one took me 90 hours, so I kept the micro stitching at bay on this quilt! This quilt is why I bought my long arm. I come from a family of quilters and I could not get anyone to make me a quilt - even if I paid them, so I bought my own long arm to do my own quilt. This is how I came up with the name for this quilt! I used Quilters Dream Wool and Quilters Dream 70/30 for batting. The quilt is a mere 12 lbs... Too heavy to lay on top of you! Over the last year and half, I collected fat quarters in civil war reproduction print. I ended up with about 300. I did not use all of them, maybe 225 of the 300. I tried to make every block in different prints. I did have to use the light color on the blocks a few times. The size is about 109 x 107. I did both the quilting and piecing. I used a pattern called Autumn Splendor but had to add the 36 patch blocks to make it bigger.
Thanks again for the welcome and kind words.
I guess I should clarify.... I finished this quilt this year however I started it last spring. I got the 1/2 square triangle blocks made and the log cabin blocks made then got a wild hair to make the two neighbor kids and 12 grand kids a twin size or bigger quilt. That Kind of ate up my summer into fall. I finally got back on this in December and got it all pieced. I am not sure how many hours it took, as I just worked on it an hour here and there. I started long arming in January and it took 50 hours to do stitch by the ditch and all the other things! This is my second quilt that I did ruler work on (well one other but it wasn't much ruler work) That one took me 90 hours, so I kept the micro stitching at bay on this quilt! This quilt is why I bought my long arm. I come from a family of quilters and I could not get anyone to make me a quilt - even if I paid them, so I bought my own long arm to do my own quilt. This is how I came up with the name for this quilt! I used Quilters Dream Wool and Quilters Dream 70/30 for batting. The quilt is a mere 12 lbs... Too heavy to lay on top of you! Over the last year and half, I collected fat quarters in civil war reproduction print. I ended up with about 300. I did not use all of them, maybe 225 of the 300. I tried to make every block in different prints. I did have to use the light color on the blocks a few times. The size is about 109 x 107. I did both the quilting and piecing. I used a pattern called Autumn Splendor but had to add the 36 patch blocks to make it bigger.
Thanks again for the welcome and kind words.
02-07-2016, 08:41 AM
#46
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Idaho
Posts: 1,273
Incredible! So... First of the year. Does that mean you just finished it? Or did you make that entire quilt in 2016? Either way it is beautiful, I just get so impressed with the speed that you ladies get these together!!!
