the art quilt arena has moved into the small scale quilts.

i saw this book and thought of you right away.

its just been release.


http://www.americanquilter.com/books...il.php?id=8021

Very interesting idea!! I love to see what others come up with. I do 2 1/2" quilts for the store I sell to. She is in an Amish tourist area and she sells Amish dolls. She puts the little quilts on a doll's lap to look like the doll made the quilt.

Thanks so much for thinking of me! I loved it! May have to get the book and take a closer look!

Intriguing!!! I read the description of the book, one inch blocks :shock: very interesting though :D

i can't imagine working within 1 inch - i think 2.5 inches is hard enough.

Just imagine how intricate a king-size quilt would be, if made from these inchies. It would take 10,000 inchie squares to make a 100"x100" quilt. Of course, you could lessen that number by using 1/4" sashing between all the inchies. :?:

Are the "Inch" Quilts the same thing that they call "Postage Stamp" Quilt???? If so, I have started cutting the squares out of some of my scraps and putting in a baggie to start on "one of these days"!!

Mary I have an easier way(wouldn't you know!) to make the postage stamp squares. Basically you sew 4 pieces together and then cut out a 4 patch and then you can sew the 4 patches together to get the same look. You can cut strips and there is no! waste. Just a thought before you cut too many if you want to try my way. Rhonda

with the postage stamp quilt you sew all the little squares together to make 1 big quilt.

an inchie - is a quilt 1 inch in size total. some people do a series of them and hang them all together.

at the last quilt show i went to a lady did an inchie quilt and they were all hung about 1/4 inch from each other.

when you were right next to the quilt you just notice nicely decorated 1 inch miniature quilts but when you looked at the quilt from a distance the image was an orange and cream tabby cat.

it was absolutely spectacular.

I would love to see that!


Ninnie

i wish everyone could see it - it was truly amazing.

the negative hanging space was the cream color and thats what made the cream stripes in the tabby cat.

then the individual little quilts where all shade of orange and she even made 2 bright green eyes. the eyes had angelina fibers so they were very reflective and would shine in the light just like a cats eyes. it was just brilliant.

she was right by the quilt the entire time and wouldn't let people take photos.

its on my list of things to do but i want to do the Chrysler Building in NYC. i think the curves of that building would translate well into inchies.

Easieris always better in my book!!! Thanks I will try that! Some of my "scraps" are just about the right size! I am even keeping the edges that I cut off at the ends and using them for filler for my granddaughter's stuffed animals that I am going to make for her.

Some make their Inchies a little bigger as Big Inchies 2x2.5 or2x3 sometimes you get to change things how you like them!!!

There you go - adding to my TO DO list again! Might try this for the Japan doll quilt swap....I can say that here can't I? Panda won't tell! :D

Here's a tutorial on inchies . Annie


http://featheredfibers.wordpress.com...chie-tutorial/

When you add a border that needs to be an inch just cut the border wider and after you sew on the border trim it to the size you want it to be. Sew easy!!! Just watch your seam allowance so it is even all along the border.

If you want to do a 1/4" border - especially effective in a dark colour as an inner frame - you can cut a 3/4" strip, sew to the top with a 1/4" seam as usual then press this seam towards the skinny border - this seam allowance gives you a ridge to guide your foot as you sew on the next border, giving you a perfect 1/4" border. I haven't tried it yet - I saw it in a book!