Originally Posted by
Glenn
I still get tears in my eyes everytime I look at my beautiful fishy quilt and all the nice things you have said about me in this VSMS. Did I say you guys are the greatest. Needless to say I am a little embarrassed by all the attention but I love it and so glad I can help you with these vintage machines. I will continue to work on them and as I come up with simple cleaning and restoring techniques that are simple to do and without harm to machine and the beautiful decals I will gladly pass them along to you. My only goal is to help you have a beautiful machine to use and admire. My enjoyment is seeing your before and after pics of these grand old ladies. Please let me know if you need help on the cabinets or the machine. I am here to help. Gosh I love this quilt!!!!!! I promise I will come down to earth after the fishing trip. lol BTW I still have two quilts to finish myself, the Alamo quilt using the Singer VS2 for piecing and an Americana guilt pieced with grandma's red eye that I am hand quilting(this one will take some time)
PS: Not much sewing in the summer with fishing, camping and the yard work.
Skipper
Glenn, I am so glad you really like the quilt. I "used" to do a lot of hand quilting. I always put my bindings on by hand! Then I took a class a few years ago on the "Quilt As You Go" technique. I got hooked. I have an HQ 16 long arm machine on a 10' table that I still use occasionally to quilt a top, but I prefer the Quilt As You Go technique where you work on each block individually. The first one I attempted to make a couple years ago, came out all crooked! The sashings didn't line up right. You are not suppose to be able to tell each block in individually connected - when the sashings line up right front and back - it appears to be one long piece! Anyway, I don't do hand work much at all any more. I tried on that first quilt to hand sew all the sashing's together - I thought that would look better than the technique the teacher used with MonoPoly thread and a zig zag! I ripped and hand sewed and ripped some more! I finally decided maybe the teacher knew what she was talking about and did her technique! I got hooked. That quilt has no handsewing in the construction! The sashings are connected together with MonoPoly thread and a small zig zag - it is hard to see unless you are really up close! I know a lot of you will say YUCK I hate MonoPoly, I was like that too! But, I am a converted quilter now! I use that technique for all of my bindings! I "USE" to be so anal about "having" to hand sewn some things and I would have never used MonoPoly before! Geeze the quilt police might take me away!
Nancy