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When you use leaders & enders, you can make a quilt without even trying, along with the one you're actually working on. You can use anything you want. Right now I'm using 2" batiks as 9-patch & 1 1/2" for flying geese. See what I did in 2 days of working on a quilt & what I got done with the flying geese l&e. Look up "What can you do with 1 1/2 scraps?".
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Originally Posted by QultingaddictUK
The ladies are correct but as I had a prob finding it on Bonnie's site here is the link for you: http://quiltville.com/leadersenders.shtml
BTW she is my idol for Scrap quilting :thumbup: It reminds me of my mom's comment about dress shopping, "It looks better on the hanger." This fabric looked better on the bolt. ;) |
Originally Posted by feline fanatic
Are you talking about leaders and enders like Bonnie Hunter does in Quiltville? In her system when you are chain stitching a bunch of units for a quilt, rather then pulling the last pieced unit and cutting the thread, stitch a HST or two squares together. That is your ender. Next sewing session it is your leader and helps prevent those tiny corners from getting pushed down in the bobbin area. Hope this makes sense. The point behind them is you eventually end up with enough of these HST leaders/enders to make a scrap quilt out of them.
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okay but doesn't the leader sometimes get caught up? or do you just leave an ender in and start up from there with a leader? Boy it wouldn't do to drink and quilt and talk about these! :-D
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Originally Posted by ginnie6
okay but doesn't the leader sometimes get caught up? or do you just leave an ender in and start up from there with a leader? Boy it wouldn't do to drink and quilt and talk about these! :-D
to start sewing I usually just use a small scrap, starting in middle, not the beginning. Or like you said, leave an ender ina nd start up with a leader. Either way. |
Originally Posted by DonnaB
lol - never drink & drive your machine. |
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