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09-04-2011, 02:01 PM
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Check this on a piece of paper but I think you can make doing a Rail Fence. Each half yard is 7 2 1/2" strips. Put a strong color on one edge. Sew the four colors together, measure the height, should be 8.5. Cut 8.5" blocks from the strips. This is the sticky part. If you can get five, you're golden. If you can only get four, you'll have to piece four ends together to make two more. An extra seam won't show when it's quilted if the colors and seams match. Put these 8.5" blocks together in the RF pattern - With the strong color zigzagging across the top diagonally. 5 blocks across (finish at 8" ) and 6 down gives you 40 by 48. Use the FQ for binding. You'll have enough if you don't make it double. Sounds good on paper, but check my figures before you cut. A bit from your stash could be added for a narrow border, but keep the finish under the width of the fabric.
We do our prayer quilts 45 by 54 or 60. Not overly large to me, but the recipients feel they are just right.
We do our prayer quilts 45 by 54 or 60. Not overly large to me, but the recipients feel they are just right.
09-04-2011, 02:13 PM
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Originally Posted by irishrose
Check this on a piece of paper but I think you can make doing a Rail Fence. Each half yard is 7 2 1/2" strips. Put a strong color on one edge. Sew the four colors together, measure the height, should be 8.5. Cut 8.5 blocks from the strips. This is the tricky part. If you can get five, you're golden. If you can only get four, you'll have to piece four ends together to make two more. An extra seam won't show when it's quilted if the colors and seams match. Put these 8.5 blocks together in the RF pattern - With the strong color zigzagging across the top diagonally. 5 blocks across (finish at 8") and 6 down gives you 40 by 48. Use the FQ for binding. You'll have enough if you don't make it double. Sounds good on paper, but check my figures before you cut.
09-04-2011, 02:14 PM
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Originally Posted by irishrose
Check this on a piece of paper but I think you can make doing a Rail Fence. Each half yard is 7 2 1/2" strips. Put a strong color on one edge. Sew the four colors together, measure the height, should be 8.5. Cut 8.5" blocks from the strips. This is the sticky part. If you can get five, you're golden. If you can only get four, you'll have to piece four ends together to make two more. An extra seam won't show when it's quilted if the colors and seams match. Put these 8.5" blocks together in the RF pattern - With the strong color zigzagging across the top diagonally. 5 blocks across (finish at 8" ) and 6 down gives you 40 by 48. Use the FQ for binding. You'll have enough if you don't make it double. Sounds good on paper, but check my figures before you cut. A bit from your stash could be added for a narrow border, but keep the finish under the width of the fabric.
We do our prayer quilts 45 by 54 or 60. Not overly large to me, but the recipients feel they are just right.
We do our prayer quilts 45 by 54 or 60. Not overly large to me, but the recipients feel they are just right.
09-04-2011, 02:17 PM
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Originally Posted by dunster
Originally Posted by irishrose
Check this on a piece of paper but I think you can make doing a Rail Fence. Each half yard is 7 2 1/2" strips. Put a strong color on one edge. Sew the four colors together, measure the height, should be 8.5. Cut 8.5 blocks from the strips. This is the tricky part. If you can get five, you're golden. If you can only get four, you'll have to piece four ends together to make two more. An extra seam won't show when it's quilted if the colors and seams match. Put these 8.5 blocks together in the RF pattern - With the strong color zigzagging across the top diagonally. 5 blocks across (finish at 8") and 6 down gives you 40 by 48. Use the FQ for binding. You'll have enough if you don't make it double. Sounds good on paper, but check my figures before you cut.
Is a 60" square acceptable for a lap quilt? If I get more material and do it 8 squares x 8 squares it would be 64".
09-04-2011, 02:35 PM
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I had pulled a half yard from the back for the fourth strip. I think you can start now and go pick up the extra half yard tomorrow for a border. A small border will move the quilt out of the skimpy stage. Remember your back is now 54", so you need to stay under that. You may have add a strip down the center of the back vertically. A border will cut it very close on the width.
As for as the five blocks - 1) all fabric isn't the same width and 2) you can't use the selvage. It will be very close, that's for sure.
As for as the five blocks - 1) all fabric isn't the same width and 2) you can't use the selvage. It will be very close, that's for sure.
09-04-2011, 04:25 PM
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Originally Posted by irishrose
I had pulled a half yard from the back for the fourth strip. I think you can start now and go pick up the extra half yard tomorrow for a border. A small border will move the quilt out of the skimpy stage. Remember your back is now 54", so you need to stay under that. You may have add a strip down the center of the back vertically. A border will cut it very close on the width.
As for as the five blocks - 1) all fabric isn't the same width and 2) you can't use the selvage. It will be very close, that's for sure.
As for as the five blocks - 1) all fabric isn't the same width and 2) you can't use the selvage. It will be very close, that's for sure.
09-05-2011, 06:16 AM
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Wow. Hate to be a stick in the mud, but if the person or people who wants you to make the quilt didn't provide enough fabric for the size and style she wants, why wouldn't you simply tell her that this won't work, and she either needs to provide you with an adequate amount of fabric, or agree to a design that you come up with that will work with the amount of fabric she did give you? After over 40 years in business I have determined, unequivacably, that the customer is NOT always right. I understand that this is for a charity auction, but their expectations of what you can do have to be reasonable for what you have.
09-05-2011, 06:26 AM
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Wow. Hate to be a stick in the mud, but if the person or people who wants you to make the quilt didn't provide enough fabric for the size and style she wants, why wouldn't you simply tell her that this won't work, and she either needs to provide you with an adequate amount of fabric, or agree to a design that you come up with that will work with the amount of fabric she did give you? After over 40 years in business I have determined, unequivacably, that the customer is NOT always right. I understand that this is for a charity auction, but their expectations of what you can do have to be reasonable for what you have.
09-05-2011, 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by davis2se
Wow. Hate to be a stick in the mud, but if the person or people who wants you to make the quilt didn't provide enough fabric for the size and style she wants, why wouldn't you simply tell her that this won't work, and she either needs to provide you with an adequate amount of fabric, or agree to a design that you come up with that will work with the amount of fabric she did give you? After over 40 years in business I have determined, unequivacably, that the customer is NOT always right. I understand that this is for a charity auction, but their expectations of what you can do have to be reasonable for what you have.
I did go with D9P, my FIRST. Now I don't know which layout to use. I've put up pics of the original and four ideas for block placement. the blocks will end up 14 inches. If my calculations are correct, with a 3ish inch border, it should be close to 62 x 70ish... Should I make it square? Are lap quilts square?
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