Six-Hour Quilts.....
03-02-2011, 01:11 PM
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a bit of trivia....
many years ago I was the guest on Kaye Woods PBS TV show and the project was for her to teach me how to do the "6 Hour Quilt". It is my recollection that one can indeed do it if there are no interruptions during the process and you know exactly what is to be done and how to do it. You can't spend time answering the phone or taking care of other personal needs when the clock starts and the serger works perfectly. One would most likely need to have all the strips cut and work space in order before starting and might be able to work up to the 6 hour time frame. It is a really neat and easy quilt to do.
It's a little like my "Quick-n-Easy, No Piecing" crib quilt I make. I had to time it one time for volunteer hours for the hospital where I donated them. . I did it completely in 3 hours which was really conservative on time. Four hours would have been better.
So......it's like anything we do - the more we do the better and faster we become. BTW. That year I was able to do 100 for the hospital.
many years ago I was the guest on Kaye Woods PBS TV show and the project was for her to teach me how to do the "6 Hour Quilt". It is my recollection that one can indeed do it if there are no interruptions during the process and you know exactly what is to be done and how to do it. You can't spend time answering the phone or taking care of other personal needs when the clock starts and the serger works perfectly. One would most likely need to have all the strips cut and work space in order before starting and might be able to work up to the 6 hour time frame. It is a really neat and easy quilt to do.
It's a little like my "Quick-n-Easy, No Piecing" crib quilt I make. I had to time it one time for volunteer hours for the hospital where I donated them. . I did it completely in 3 hours which was really conservative on time. Four hours would have been better.
So......it's like anything we do - the more we do the better and faster we become. BTW. That year I was able to do 100 for the hospital.
03-02-2011, 01:17 PM
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Good for you. I love to read stories like this. I make them mostly for Project Linus and COoke's Children's and JPS hospital gets them. Thanks for sharing. I can do it faster but youa re right about interuptions. SO true...... Next time, I love my door and see. I took her class in Missouri two years ago and we finished one in 5 hours but not the binding and the kits were already cut. Love her work. She was at a PL convention giving us classes.
03-03-2011, 02:33 AM
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I am looking at it and I think it would be doable in six hours without interruptions. When you cut up as many strips as I do" and that is all it is made up of then yes I think it would be doable . however I am a fast sewer too so it would depend on several different factors.
03-03-2011, 03:34 AM
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Did mine on a serger but it took more then 6 hours to do it. Started out with cutting the fabric and batting then I had two three and half hour classes and I still have to put the binding on. So you can see it has taken me longer then 6 hours but it was fun.
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