Sleepin' under store-bought
05-29-2010, 07:39 AM
#52
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Location: Duncan, AZ
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I'm working on a 100"x100" log cabin quilt for our queen size bed. Am hand quilting it & all most done. Then on goes the border & on to the bed. I do think this is the last time I tackle one this big. It's a bit much to handle when quilting. Unless I decide to have it quilted on a long-arm. But then it wouldn't seem the same as if I'd made the entire thing. Already have the fabric for my next large throw.
05-29-2010, 07:40 AM
#53
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Duncan, AZ
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I'm working on a 100"x100" log cabin quilt for our queen size bed. Am hand quilting it & all most done. Then on goes the border & on to the bed. I do think this is the last time I tackle one this big. It's a bit much to handle when quilting. Unless I decide to have it quilted on a long-arm. But then it wouldn't seem the same as if I'd made the entire thing. Already have the fabric for my next large throw.
05-29-2010, 12:40 PM
#54
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Frankton Indiana
Posts: 27
No way do I sleep under store bought blankets or quilts. I rotate them by the seasons. I love my quilts. I also have wallhangings in all my rooms. I donated one I had no use for to a local library who needed one for their seminar room. Since then I have been tutoring adults to read and we meet in the seminar room and I love looking at that wall hanging.
05-29-2010, 02:41 PM
#55
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Location: Illinois
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Originally Posted by MegsAnn
Are there any other quilters out there who find themselves sewing every day.... but still sleep under store-bought blankets? My hubby finally yelled out to me today "MAKE SOMETHING USEFUL!" I told him I do, I just give those big ones away. Whoops! I guess I'd better finish one for our bed now, huh?
05-29-2010, 02:50 PM
#56
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Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Southern California
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Everything I've made I've given away. I'd love to have one for our bedinstead of store bought, but right now a California King seems just too daunting. I have several designed in my head though. :-)
05-29-2010, 03:11 PM
#57
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Kamloops B.C.
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I have a store bought and what I call my ugly quilt. Its made up of a large peice of poly cotton (ugly) and another on the back. I put it on my frame when I first got it set up so I would have something to try it out on. I couldn't waste it so it went on my bed.
05-29-2010, 03:14 PM
#58
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Windham, Maine
Posts: 1,251
NO TUCKING! Wear and tear are not something that I want.
I make my quilts to fit that way. Hospital corners on the rest of the bedding ( I live in Maine) but the quilt is left in it's own glorious untucked state. Who wants to hide anything that you've worked so hard to make?
I make my quilts to fit that way. Hospital corners on the rest of the bedding ( I live in Maine) but the quilt is left in it's own glorious untucked state. Who wants to hide anything that you've worked so hard to make?
05-29-2010, 03:42 PM
#59
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Ohio
Posts: 493
Store Bought?? Ummmm kinda guilty.
Hubby & I have our own blanket. We share (when COLD out) an old double knit UGLY & I mean UGLY quilt. I made it years ago from MIL old clothes, she out grew. You know the old double knit from the 70's...LOL
Lime green solid is the most prominent color. BUT hey.... double knit is very warm. Got a flannel sheet on the back.
Have thought about making a cali king for our bed. Thinking I am going to put zippers in it, so I can unzip it to wash & I don't tear up the washing machine. :)
Still in the 'thinking' process.
Hubby & I have our own blanket. We share (when COLD out) an old double knit UGLY & I mean UGLY quilt. I made it years ago from MIL old clothes, she out grew. You know the old double knit from the 70's...LOL
Lime green solid is the most prominent color. BUT hey.... double knit is very warm. Got a flannel sheet on the back.
Have thought about making a cali king for our bed. Thinking I am going to put zippers in it, so I can unzip it to wash & I don't tear up the washing machine. :)
Still in the 'thinking' process.
05-29-2010, 03:44 PM
#60
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Windham, Maine
Posts: 1,251
Originally Posted by Happy Needler
I have a king size bed with a store bought quilt and then a smaller quilt on top that I made. I Made a king size one and my son-in-law requested it so how could I tell him it was for me. I mean really, how often does your son-in-law like your work so much that he would make a requst like that. I am planning another for my bed and hope to get it there this time to replace the smaller one. The pictures are of the smaller quilt are on a queen bed just to take the pictures. It now sits on top of my king bed. The picture of the large egg money quilt with the scalloped edged is the king quilt that I gave to my son-in-law.
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