i have hand cut hand pieced and handsewn and hand quilted two of these no repeat in fabrics crazy huh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have hand cut hand pieced and handsewn and hand quilted two of these no repeat in fabrics crazy huh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

i have hand cut hand pieced and handsewn and hand quilted two of these no repeat in fabrics crazy huh !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Quiltville.com is a great site for anyone who wants to do more with their scraps. Here is Bonnie's description of what a "leader and ender" is:
http://quiltville.blogspot.com/2005/...-and-hows.html

Please post a picture of your quilt when finished. Would love to see it. You are very brave, don't think I could tackle that.

I was once told by a quilter...There really aren't "rules"...do your own thing...

I am making a postage stamp and was cutting out wondering the same thing but I decided hey it is my project and if there is more then one who knows but me also I read someplace that you just cut them out throw in bag and pull out and sew and that as long as they are small about 2 or under they work together so I think that is what i will try will see how it goes

ROFL

What a great time to use the AccQuilt. You would have those little pieces cut in no time and have lots more time to sew. The cutting is the most tiring part of quilting because it has to be done standing up and my aging body can't take a lot of that at one time.

I would never be able to make a postage stamp if you can't use the same fabric twice.

What are your seam allowances on this?? -- J

..too funny!!!!! :P :P :P :P :P :P :P

This is my response also. I'm making a postage stamp quilt and have lots of duplicates and some triplicates. No guilt about having done so! :)

I've participated in a number of the swaps here for Postage stamps. (It's the easiest since I don't have to buy fabric!) I've got a large enough selection that I think I will just put them all in a large grocery sack, shake to mix them up a bit and then start sewing! I've decided to use a neutral like a white or black every X number of blocks. I think it will be fun but is going to have to be on the quilt back burner til all the others have had their turn in line! Like most people, I have far more projects than time! :) Oh and I have duplicates as well and think that it would be fun to spend time looking for them! It would keep my grandkids busy!

When my Mom passed away several years ago she had cut out only 3 different fabrics to make a postage stamp quilt and since I didn't know what other fabric she was going to use next so I am just going to use the 3 colors and how ever big the quilt will be? I have alot of fabric from my Grandmother and thought I would use her fabric for the outer boarders. I have just one piece of fabric from my Great Grand mother just enough to sew a block in each corner. This quilt will be mine to remember who taught me so much about quilting. My daughter will inherit the quilt eventually.

I dont see why you cant use the same fabric especially if it doesnt look the same and you are trying for that look!Recently finished a baby quilt with sashings and corner squares of 1 inch finished. It is really tough to keep it all lined up. Perhaps someone has a suggestion in their bag of tricks. :)

It is tough to keep things lined up but I've found the turning seams opposite direction so they puzzle fit together has helped! If you have fabrics with more play, this is where the challenge is!

I didn't know you were not suppose to duplicate. Lordy how does one keep that straight unless you separate all your fabric into two groups and never mix them. I would think it would be an ongoing project and if you were working on anything else that would be hard to do. I've been trying to do a Cathedral window and not duplicate and I've blown it already. I only work putting the color in the windows when we travel so it'll take me a long time to complete.

I tried to post here did not see when i came back going to post this just to see i fit goes

Deary, it is your quilt. Do it any way you want! Three cheers to you for you taking on the task of those postage stamps. Have fun! We'll will never tell or likely even notice if there are duplicates. :lol:

I have top a great aunt made the pieces for back in the day, 1 1/2"! Sometime before 1968 when she passed away. It's set with sashing that my grandmother and aunt did. She used a lot of the same fabrics. It's what you want, you're doing the work!

Is it supposed to be a 1" block? Would it be wrong to use a 2" or 3" square? I have been thinking of cutting up some of my scraps as I go along and then sew when I get enough. Quilt police, what do you say?

I agree with One More Quilt, a charm square is supposed to have only one square of each block; but the postage stamp quilt is supposedly 1 1/2" squares that finish to 1". Years ago, a woman in my guild made the postage stamp block quilt, BUT she strip pieced "X" number of fabrics, then cut apart into 1 1/2" wide strips x the numer of strips. It would certainly make it faster, and perhaps a little easier than handling 1 1/2" squares. It would be for me anyway, I have enough trouble seeing 1 1/2" squares, let alone sewing them. lol I'm sure your quilt will be gorgeous when it's done.

I agree with One More Quilt, charm quilts are only supposed to have one square of fabric with no duplicates, but postage stamp quilts can be any number of fabrics that you choose. I admired a postage stamp quilt at a quilt show and the quilter said that she had strip pieced several 1 1/2" strips together, then cut apart into 1 1/2" strips to speed the process. That works for me, I have enough trouble seeing 1 1/2" squares, let alone piecing them together. lol I'm sure your quilt will be gorgeous.

I'm still collecting for my postage stamp quilt (without dups). Some fabrics are so wild that I can get several squares from one piece. No one will ever know because they're all different.

My HD made a postage stamp completely by hand...king size. He cut only one two inch square from each fabric he used and only started making the quilt when he had the amount he needed for the size quilt he wanted to make. That way he felt he would be safe, because he wanted each piece to be different. After he got started though, he changed his mind and decided he wanted triangular designs spaced throughtout his postage stamps...so the triangles were made with the same fabric...they were cut from squares though, so that technically he had a quilt made up of all 1 1/2 inch squares...thus a postage stamp...his own creation.

Now you all are making me want to do a postate stamp quilt. I have so much fabric that I could probably make a king size and not use the same fabric twice. I think to vary the squares and triangles would be really neat, I would just have to pare a square with a triangle. Sounds really neat.

[quote=dublb]I have started collecting fabrics for my Postage Stamp. I know that you're not supposed to duplicate any fabrics but( :wink: ) some of my scraps have so many different looks that once they are cut into 1 1/2" squares you would never know that they were from the same fabric. Is that acceptable ???

I think this will be my "leader & ender" quilt.[/quote

I personally had never heard that the Postage Stamp was not supposed to duplicate any fabrics. I have a Postage Stamp Quilt that my GGG Grandmother made in the year 1840 .... and if you go to the Posting I made on it at .... www.quiltingboard.com/t-88451 .... you can and will see what she did, and every inch of the quilt is "handsewn and quilted", with the exception of the binding, which I put on by machine.

it is just fine I am doing the same thing with my Best friends quilt the pieces are 1.5 and 1.5 x 2.5 and 4 in

I have been trying to go through my fabric scraps...cutting 4" squares for my three DGDs...if there was enough for 1.5" squares and 2"squares, I cut those as well.

'Problem' for me is do I mix all the novelity fabrics with more grown up fabrics. What would you do?

I want to do a postage stamp quilt too. I started out making four patches from leftover squares and I'm undecided whether to incorporate them into the postage stamp quilt because they are each made of two fabrics. I think it might be nice to scatter them throughout.

In thinking about strip piecing, I was wondering if it would work to do a swap with strip piecing. For example, I take 25 (or so) different fabrics in my stash, cut a 1 1/2" strip from each and sew the strips together. I then subcut this into 25 (or so) 1 1/2" strips. Each of these strips would have one each of the twenty five fabrics. I swap 24 of them with other swappers, so everyone ends up with 25 different strips.

Would that work? Would anyone be interested?

I have been cutting 1 and 1/2 " squares for years. I know
what I am going to do with them, but they are definitely not all different,. They are small pieces that are left over from other projects. There might be l or 2 of a pattern and there may be 20...I would have trouble counting
'alikes' even if I wanted to. It is the all-over effect that makes the quilt interesting. I have a lot of different
fabrics in my stash...but I'm not sure they measure in the
thousands, ha.

Mommomjoann, I wouldn't shush them unless they're really, really loud fabrics.
8-)

Your fabric, your labor, your quilt, your rules! Gotta love the freedom of that!!

I purchased a PS quilt years ago --- a lot of duplicates in it!

ROFLMAO!!!!

Just have a great time with it! The P.S. quilts I've seen had so many tiny squares, that no one would ever know where any of them came from.......relax, enjoy!

if the charm quilt was to get a good man, I don't need anymore luck, I already have a good one. Mine has duplicates.

No quilt police...do whatever you want! (Well, within reason!)

And who cares?