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Hi Kiddies,

It's ready to hit my quilter, so excited. This quilt has been in process for all these long years... I started to swap for it in 1998 and here we are in 2019 and it's almost ready for my quilter. Her machine can only quilt 96" wide and we barter so I need her to do it. My quilt is 116x127,,, so I have to either remove the siggies on left and right and put them onto the back,,, or cut it down the center and have her do them up separately. Then hope I can put it together seamlessly after the fact. That's something I've never had much luck with but the siggies are so important to the entire thing as I traded all over the world for this and it tells much of the story. Every patch is a different fabric from different people. Then quilt was lost, found and finally, top completed all these years later. Told that story in a prior post.

Speaking of the story I want to get it on the back of the quilt. I have ink jet paper to print the story out on, does a place like Kinko's do InkJet printing? My Epson home printer (440) it's not one of those right? Does anyone know how to get the story onto the back of the quilt?

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Sorry it's side ways, I edited it prior to loading but it doesn't like me.

What would ya'll do? And yes I'm removing the bottom 4 patch and flipping them so they aren't in columns.

BTW, the patterns from the Patchwork Place which seems to be gone now. Fortunately I'd printed out the pattern and put it with my quilt. This was a mystery quilt and I think they did a bang up job.

I really wanna get this boxed and outta here so I can begin my Sylvia's Bridal Quilt in black, can't wait to start something new.

Congrats - beautiful quilt!

When i want to print on fabric (quilt label, photos, story, etc) i use Printed Treasures. The sheets are 8 1/2” x 11” and will go through your printer. - the sheets are stabilized with something like a freezer paper backing which you peel off afterwards.

You will want to print from whatever software you have your text saved in (i use Microsoft Word). I use an Epson printer as well (Dura-brite ink) - prints with no problems. I would probably do a head cleaning cycle on the printer before actually printing on the fabric to get best results.

Beautiful quilt top.

I would look for someone that can handle a top that big - it seems important enough to do so.

I agree. Find someone who has a larger bed on their machine.

I love the gradient on the quilt top. I only have a 5foot long arm, so you can imagine, it doesn't hold too much! however, I still use it to quilt larger quilts. I just load half of it and let the other side bunch up. after quilting that, I reload it with lining the other side up on the longarm. It is not super professional and you risk not being squared up, but if you are flexible, maybe your longarmer will adjust like that for you.

Me three! I really hope you can find someone to give that quilt the attention it deserves.

Beautiful quilt. I just pulled my Y2K quilt out of "storage" and use it to wrap myself in. Mine is called "Murphy's Millennium" because everything that could possibly go wrong in making it, did!

How wide is the quilt without the 4patches borders? Could you remove it on two sides to bring it down to size, then add on later. If your pieces are 3'' you might need to take off the blue border as well. Just a thought.
Love the quilt, BTW.

As LAF2019 said you can do this quilt on a smaller LA, it just takes a lot of extra work and can get frustrating but it can be done. I sure wouldn't want to cut it down! I have done this so I know it is possible

I would find another quilter with a larger LA. That is a wonderful quilt.

That is a beautiful quilt. I would not cut it down the center & have it quilted as 2 separate units. You will be loosing 1/2" when you sew it back together. I like Gay's suggestion above about removing the borders & hopefully the quilt would then fit your quilter's machine. Then you could add the borders back on when it comes back from the quilter & do the border quilting on your domestic machine. If that will not work I would find a different quilter & just pay outright for it if you can afford to.
What a treasure you have in that quilt. Give it a lot of thought before you jump into something you will regret.

Because this quilt is important to you (sentiment) I would find a longarmer that has a longer frame to quilt it. I would not dismantle parts of it and hope to get it back together after it is quilted. Besides that——-look how long it took to get it together the first time.......you don’t want to take that long to reattach everything.....and who will be quilting that part???

You can continue to trade with your friend on other projects. Pay for this one. An edge-to-edge will be reasonable (especially for the size of this top).

Speaking from experience: I had some borders I did not like after I had quilted and bound a quilt. I cut them off and re-bordered, quilted and bound the edges. It was a major feat to do this but here’s why I would not do it again.....the quilt does not hang straight....did not look so good hanging in a show. Not worth the hassles.

So glad to see you back Wendy and what a lovely top. So many people did so many wonderful things and I just sat on my squares...

Don't change it. It's a huge quilt but maybe someone with a sit down machine would be willing to do it.

since you barter for the work...I'd agree with your plan to take off the excess and make it into whatever you will do for the backing. And way more interesting than just a big piece of fabric.

well done Wendy, I didn't participate but knew many people who worked this exchange on all the groups :) and I dearly love the actual Y2K fabric that still surfaces occasionally.

Find someone with a larger frame, mine is 14' long and it can be done. Try Missouri Star Company, they quilt for people.

Too late to edit!

After thinking about it, I think to take off the borders and incorporate them on the back with the story, they can frame the story even. I've been adding in stuff that didn't make it to the front of the quilt into the back and rather enjoy it.

Yes, your printer should be able to print on fabric just fine, follow the directions, since it is important if they have an optional step with retayne or other substance, do that too!

You have an established relationship with your quilter and that is important in bartering relationships.

That's quite an amazing quilt top. I love the rainbow effect.

I'm going to side with the ones who said to find a quilter who can handle this size. I think your quilter could easily understand why you wouldn't want to have the quilting done in sections. Especially if you often let her do quilts that are appropriate for her machine. I added a row in the middle of one of my quilts, but it involved a lot of hand work to get it right. Also, you'd be joining the batting, which might or might not be a problem someday. It would be a shame to have to add a random seam anywhere on the back, and it might be hard to reseam the top just the way it should be and currently is. (I assume you were being facetious when you typed "cut" the top, which made my heart skip a beat!) Also, there's probably no seam on each side of the inner border in a place that would work for separating the halves, nor seams in the pieced border that would line up with blocks in the center area. I had to add pieces to my narrow border when I opened seams to add a row. If you still want your quilter to do it, your best bet would be to take off the two wider pieced borders (If they add up to at least 31 inches) and add them later, and maybe do the quilting on the border on a sit down machine. If they are side borders, it will be an area that gets relatively little stress when the quilt is in use, and the handwork that's involved in joining the back will hold up better there.

Your Epson is an inkjet printer if doesn't use toner. Good luck, and please show us when it's done!

ya'll are a wealth of information. I'm so glad I posted, . Off to play with that. Thanks for all the input. I'm going to practice seaming quilted stuff and see how it does. I'm very fly by the seat and it will never be "shown" so I don't have to fret about all that.

I just have to say I've seen plenty of quilts in quilt shows that were no prettier than this one of yours. Don't sell yourself short! I see no reason at all why this one shouldn't be shown. You have great color sense and the design is very appealing. The workmanship looks great, too. In fact, after all you've put into this, showing it is something you should definitely consider.

This is the first post I've seen of yours, and I tried to find the rest of the story. So I found the first one, but I'm not able to find anything about when or where you found the blocks, and I'm curious to know that. In any case, I'm very happy for you that they turned up.

Lets see the blocks came from a mystery quilt from 1999 or thereafter. It was not a color wash as I've made mine. It was a site that's gone now.

It's just a center pinwheel with squares around and the other is the pinwheel with HST in the 4 corners. I'm looking for another to make now and will possibly design my own as I know what I need (two similar blocks) now I just need to figure out which I want. For a time I was enjoying snail trail with stars.
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But I might save this one for a 3 color quilt... currently I'm scraping.

So I go to thinking about irish chain through 2 different stars and that's real doable.

Here's my original thread.

That one is Shakespeare in the Park. :thumbup: Beautiful quilt.

It's really screaming at me to play. But must needs finish up some other stuff first. I have a 3D throw and a few swaps. Caught up on my mystery quilt. Feeling fresh and ready to jump off of the precipice.

oooooooooooooo I have the fabric and story ready to print for my Y2K it's in a 12" cube with some other goodies I'm sending to my LA. Can't wait to see what happens to her now. I ordered Scotch Guard from Amazon... they cancelled my order. Do ya'll "seal" your printed work onto fabric before you wash? I don't want to lose anything and so I'm going to hit my siggies and everything once the quiltings complete.

So Dear Jane (just need about 3/4th the border) Sylvia's Bridal Quilt in black comes after completion of my Jane. Unless my BF says we need to start now... in which case I dive in.

3-D quilt just needs to be pieced it was a row by row we did years ago... the rows are loose and just needs to be compiled somehow. Still not sure... ooooh what about if I put the rows around the outside, center medallion style? Gee, I never thought of that. They are all the same length so I always thought to just stack them one atop the next.

Still haven't decided about my next scrap quilt but I'm closer. Took a bunch of inspiration photos and made up two collages. One is the snail trail with a star. The other has a more traditional look and I might be settling on a 4 patch (for diagonal lines throughout) with some center applique... blocks that are pieced together just like the Y2K.

Then there's the Felted Sheep but I just got the wool fabric in and need to dye it. I have chopped it all down to 9 x 12, zig zagged it and will wait for next week to dye again as my back still needs to recover.