What things are you still having problems with in quilting? Let's Chit Chat!
#61
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Poconos, PA
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Baseball- hmmmmmm. One can try a green print that looks like grass; some kinds of batik go rather well too. There is fabric that looks like sand and could be taken for dirt. I just ordered fabric for basketball themed quilt and ordered a large print and a smaller one for contrast with batik added. A good site for fabrics is called e-Quilter and the neat thing is that if you find a print, when you get the close up, there is a button that you can hit with your mouse when you scroll over the print and find a coordinating color in the print that you want to accompany it and it will call up all fabrics within that color range. Really cool! Good luck and hope this helps. You just have to be bold and go for it and it will always come out OK if you follow your instinct. Just remember - there are no rules in quilting!
#62
Originally Posted by craftybear
thanks, what is the mitchelle system?
I didn't know Eleanor Burns had a cd on bindings
I didn't know Eleanor Burns had a cd on bindings
Originally Posted by Rosyhf
I don't hand bind and I like my bindings a bit wide. I cut a 4 to 4 /2 inch strip the lengh that I need. I fold and iron it in half. I then sew on side to the quilt. When I get to the corners, I lift up and do the miter and continue (For beginners, Elinore Burns is perfect for teaching you binding or get her cd). Once that is done. I eigher use the Mitchelle system with the clips and gizmo or just fold over and pin a bit and sew in the ditch.
Sorry I mispelled....
http://www.martellicatalog.com/mm5/m...gory_Code=Bind
This system works great but you have to really read it good. I looked at the price and wow, I don't think I paid that much for it....y
I think I got it at Planet patchwork when they had a sale on years ago.
I was talking about Elinor's cd 's
http://www.quiltinaday.com/shoponline/dvds.asp
I got her, "Victory Quilts" from Amazon.com. The block in this book are all from Block Base but I like Elinore and every now and then I will get something from her. Oh that is the third quilt on my list.
#63
My challenge is figuring out which way to press seams so they nest when joined to other pieces. Most of the time, I press open and make "pinwheels" to help the joints lay flat.
Don't know how this will affect how the seams hold up after several years.
Don't know how this will affect how the seams hold up after several years.
#65
Originally Posted by Crafty critter
Originally Posted by craftybear
What things are you still having problems with in quilting?
Let's Chit Chat!
I am sure someone can help!
Let's Chit Chat!
I am sure someone can help!
#66
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Muscatine, Iowa by way of West Virginia, Washington State, and Montana
Posts: 1,130
Originally Posted by Late Bloomer
I am almost embarrassed to mention this, but if I read any kind of 1/8. 7/8 or any kind of 8 for cutting - I am out of there. I have trouble getting that on my rulers and my husband thinks it is funny and laughs at his math challenged wife trying to figure out how many lines back or forward I need. Rulers, as a rule, do not indicate any 8ths and it drives me nuts when i find a great pattern and when I look at the instructions, I will not attempt it. Does anyone else have this problem, and if so, how do you dealwith it?
#68
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Live in Littleton, CO via Rapid City, SD
Posts: 2,187
Is this who I think it is? Miss RC. Not really homesick, but miss my church and my friends. Will be in RC, Wed. b/4 Sept 10, for class reunion, will write you a note, etc, later.
Helen
Helen
#70
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Raleigh,NC
Posts: 1,962
I also just acquired some baseball material, what I thought I would do , have the one paytch and a different color, maybe put the square onto a contrasting fabric or coordinating fabric, got so many thoughts on it. and this is an American pasttime? why not red, white, blue material or squares? awwww, my mind is going a mile a minute about this!
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