My Quilting confessions...
04-13-2011, 10:23 PM
#34
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Originally Posted by Sienna's GiGi
I pass time at work daydreaming about quilting.
I fantasize about cutting up people's clothes while they are wearing them if I like the colors and suspect the clothing is cotton.
I fantasize about cutting up people's clothes while they are wearing them if I like the colors and suspect the clothing is cotton.
04-13-2011, 10:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Lynnie25
Originally Posted by Sienna's GiGi
I pass time at work daydreaming about quilting.
I fantasize about cutting up people's clothes while they are wearing them if I like the colors and suspect the clothing is cotton.
I fantasize about cutting up people's clothes while they are wearing them if I like the colors and suspect the clothing is cotton.
04-14-2011, 04:55 AM
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I just liberally overlap and then use a walking foot on a very large both long and wide zig zag. After I am done quilting I can not find it back in which quilt had pieces and which did not. I use mostly warm and natural but other bats too. I do take care to match the batting so I do not use Hobbs 80/20 in one piece and the other warm and natural. So when I save batting I store like batting together. I hope this helps.
Oh if I have very fluffy batting like a medium pollyester one I might just hand sew it with some big stiches.
Anna, can you tell me how you piece batting? Do you overlap it or butt it? do you straight stitch or zig zag? i have thrown away alot of small batting pieces (strips of 12" x 80") many times..
Oh if I have very fluffy batting like a medium pollyester one I might just hand sew it with some big stiches.
Originally Posted by quilting.addict
Originally Posted by Annaquilts
I sew my binding on by machine.
I piece left over batting to make a a larger bat.
I stay up way too late inorder to sew.
I am a compulsive quilter.
I have stopped washing fabric if it is straight off the bolt.
I mix washed and unwashed fabric in my quilts.
I piece left over batting to make a a larger bat.
I stay up way too late inorder to sew.
I am a compulsive quilter.
I have stopped washing fabric if it is straight off the bolt.
I mix washed and unwashed fabric in my quilts.
04-14-2011, 05:10 AM
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I have never seen myself in so many postings before.
I have taught my children, (in their 20's), to put my packages in my sewing room so their Dad doesn't see them first. :oops:
I just placed a large fabric order last night with Connecting Threads, breaking my word that I would use up all my fabric before buying more, *sigh*.
My foot just reached for my sewing pedal to advance the computer :roll: .
I have taught my children, (in their 20's), to put my packages in my sewing room so their Dad doesn't see them first. :oops:
I just placed a large fabric order last night with Connecting Threads, breaking my word that I would use up all my fabric before buying more, *sigh*.
My foot just reached for my sewing pedal to advance the computer :roll: .
04-14-2011, 07:49 AM
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ok, this will be the worst confession so far:
I got a nice Viking Freesia 415 several years ago. I started making quilts....lots of quilts...and I taught myself to do FMQ, but in SEVEN years, I never took my bobbin area apart to clean out the lint!!! Didn't know you could/should!!!! My son came to my rescue when I complained about the machine not sewing right. He got tweezers and brushes and went to work! He tells everyone he got out enough lint to batt a small baby quilt!!!
I got a nice Viking Freesia 415 several years ago. I started making quilts....lots of quilts...and I taught myself to do FMQ, but in SEVEN years, I never took my bobbin area apart to clean out the lint!!! Didn't know you could/should!!!! My son came to my rescue when I complained about the machine not sewing right. He got tweezers and brushes and went to work! He tells everyone he got out enough lint to batt a small baby quilt!!!
04-15-2011, 01:29 AM
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I thought about all of the confessions on this board and decided NO MORE FABRIC until I get to the states. I honetsly don't know if I COULD do that. There are so many sales online that i don't know what to do. The prices are even good with shipping!
04-15-2011, 02:22 AM
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"I fantasize about cutting up people's clothes while they are wearing them if I like the colors and suspect the clothing is cotton."
I had to laugh out loud on this one because I have done this too, men's shirts sometimes give me that little trill like when you have found that just right fabric!
I used to wash ALL my fabric but now I use some washed and some not.
I use up half used bobbins no matter what type of thread is or color in there, mixing thread types in the same quilt.
I have a real "thing" for half square triangle quilts.
I piece battings.
I love scrappy!
I really wish I could free motion quilt but I just can't get "it"
I had to laugh out loud on this one because I have done this too, men's shirts sometimes give me that little trill like when you have found that just right fabric!
I used to wash ALL my fabric but now I use some washed and some not.
I use up half used bobbins no matter what type of thread is or color in there, mixing thread types in the same quilt.
I have a real "thing" for half square triangle quilts.
I piece battings.
I love scrappy!
I really wish I could free motion quilt but I just can't get "it"
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