Originally Posted by
sharon b
I have seen on Utube the women who do the races and get them done in an hour
so silly me thought hhhmmmmm if they can do it in an hour maybe I could get it done in about 3-4 hours , right ??? WRONG
LOL Spent an hour on it Monday and that didn't even get the strips sewn together- so Wednesday finished sewing the strip together- today want to start sewing up the end to end part.
Have you ever done one if so a few questions :
How long did it take ?
How do you stop the twisted knot before you get to the end to cut ?
Also please post pics so we can see them all
I will post after I have it all sewn together
I read your post and laughed so hard I cried! Not at you - I attended a quilt retreat last weekend and my friend and I decided to make the 1600 inch quilt. Since the youtube video had it done in under an hour, we figured we could come home with a quilt top totally finished by the end of the weekend! Doesn't work that way. We started early Sat. morning - around 9:00am and by lunchtime, we just looked at each other saying - what is wrong with us? We should be done by now! Long story short - I finished sewing mine together just before dinner at 6:00pm. Sun morning I put borders on it. My friend didn't get that far. Hers twisted a lot more than mine and she spent a lot of time untwisting it.
I found the best way to handle the twists for the first two or three rows is to gently urge it to go to the end and cut it when you are ready to sew the end and then even up where you cut. When you get to the last few rows it is easy to keep it from twisting. I think next time I would lay out the 1600 inches, double it over, and cut before I sewed the first long row.
So, it took me the better part of a day and a half to finish my hour quilt top! I will try to take a pic and post later today.