Is Anyone Making the Hobo Quilt
10-30-2011, 11:03 AM
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Sometimes the blocks are not the right size?? I seen the rail cars done in a quilt show and even won a ribbon.
Originally Posted by Brenda P
I'm working on the quilt with the engine, caboose and rail cars with the railroad track as a border. I've got 7 1/2 railroad car blocks done. I'm working on the engine right now. After reading the reviews on line, I know now why I'm having so much trouble with the rail car blocks not coming out with the right dimensions. I've had to remeasure just about every piece I've cut for that.
I'm making it for my son who is an engineer for the BNSF and on the front of the engine, I put the old Santa Fe emblem on it.
I'm making it for my son who is an engineer for the BNSF and on the front of the engine, I put the old Santa Fe emblem on it.
10-30-2011, 12:54 PM
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Read a blog recently about the slave/underground quilts and there might be a fallacy there....IF you neighbor left out quilts in the dead of winter it might raise suspicions of "why".....makes for great fiction reading. I personally want to follow up with the history of these quilts. Since I'm new at quilting and not a history, nor civil war history buff, I'm curious.
NOW, I'll add HOBO quilts to my list of stuff to read/learn about. Thanks for the incentive.....
NOW, I'll add HOBO quilts to my list of stuff to read/learn about. Thanks for the incentive.....
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