New from Maine w/ a question
03-18-2010, 10:52 AM
#21
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Location: Maine
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Hi Roberta! You are really not that far away from me. I am in Bar Harbor.
Originally Posted by Roberta
Welcome from another "Mainiac". You'll love the Board. Each and every person on it is so nice and helpful.
03-19-2010, 05:09 AM
#22
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Bar Harbor, ME.
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I've only been to Bar Harbor once and had a horrible experience in a restaurant there and never went back to BH. Beautiful up there and my youngest is semi-engaged to a BH girl, Heather Noonan.
Glad to have another person on the board from Maine. There are actually a few of us in here but spaced rather far apart in the state.
Glad to have another person on the board from Maine. There are actually a few of us in here but spaced rather far apart in the state.
03-19-2010, 05:32 AM
#23
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Originally Posted by MaryStoaks
Welcome from Calif. A friend of mine once wanted a whole cloth comforter made with the same fabric as her sheets, it was a pretty pansey pattern. I layered a pair of flat sheets like hers with 2 poly battings and tied it instead of quilting. I bound it with fabric from my stash. She was thrilled, just what she wanted. It was quick and easy.
opps almost forgot to welcome you....Big Welcome from Ut.
03-19-2010, 05:54 AM
#24
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Location: Austin, TX
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I've done it both ways. I've made the wholecloth quilts with oodles and oodles of gorgeous close, fine quilting (and in-depth abundant trapunto on 2 of them). They turned out very well. This is my true quilting passion!
But my brother likes quilts made more like a comforter. So I seamed the fabric to queen size, and layered it with a highest-loft poly batting (very thick) and then just did an overall large open meander on the top. This simply held it together without a lot of quilting to tack it down and firm it up too much. He loved it. Just what he wanted.
Either way is good and pretty. Just depends upon what your mom likes. Wholecloths are a ton of work, and lovely. The comforters are easy and fast, and a different look.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
But my brother likes quilts made more like a comforter. So I seamed the fabric to queen size, and layered it with a highest-loft poly batting (very thick) and then just did an overall large open meander on the top. This simply held it together without a lot of quilting to tack it down and firm it up too much. He loved it. Just what he wanted.
Either way is good and pretty. Just depends upon what your mom likes. Wholecloths are a ton of work, and lovely. The comforters are easy and fast, and a different look.
Hope this helps. Good luck!
03-19-2010, 01:11 PM
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