Can you really make a quilt in a day?
#114
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YES, BUT it is a lot of hard work and time, you will have to do an easy pattern, like around the world or a big one block style pattern or a simple irish chain pattern and cut the strips out multi layers or with a die cutter. I have made one from scratch in a day but it was not a queen or king, but have cut one out and finished it in a day and a half... quilted and hemmed it also... you have to be focused and have no distractions and be able to go non stop for about 14 hours
#115
YES, BUT it is a lot of hard work and time, you will have to do an easy pattern, like around the world or a big one block style pattern or a simple irish chain pattern and cut the strips out multi layers or with a die cutter. I have made one from scratch in a day but it was not a queen or king, but have cut one out and finished it in a day and a half... quilted and hemmed it also... you have to be focused and have no distractions and be able to go non stop for about 14 hours
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#118
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Brady TX
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#120
My first quilt was an Eleanor Burns QIAD Log Cabin and I did finish it in a day. But I have to tell you that the insturctor practically stood over us with a whip, in fact when a group of us went to lunch, she came and found us after half an hour and told us we needed to get backd!
Fast forward several years, and although I am not very prolific quilter, I know a lot more now than I did then. A few years ago I got to take a Trip Around the World class with Eleanor Burns. I didn't finish my top in the class, about six hours and that didn't include cutting but there was a bit of down time at the start expalining stuff before we put the pedal to the metal. Some folks did finish theirs, but I don't have the attention span to stay at it the whole time. I did have most of it done before the end of the day.
Fast forward several years, and although I am not very prolific quilter, I know a lot more now than I did then. A few years ago I got to take a Trip Around the World class with Eleanor Burns. I didn't finish my top in the class, about six hours and that didn't include cutting but there was a bit of down time at the start expalining stuff before we put the pedal to the metal. Some folks did finish theirs, but I don't have the attention span to stay at it the whole time. I did have most of it done before the end of the day.
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