Carol W

I can't wait to see your whole cloth quilt!!!

anita211

Carol,

I guess I don't understand... I am working on a beautiful purple, lilac, and green Lover's Knot. I am not working on a wholecloth. I don't even have any that I have completed as my son and daughter-in-law has one, my stepson has one, my step-daughter has one, and I believe my ex-mother-in-law has one. I can get pics from my son... my stepson and stepdaughter are no longer on speaking terms with their father and myself.

Anita in Northfield

kwhite

The preprinted quilts in question was my first choice simply because of the ease of assembly. Even so I put in approximately 500,000 stitches. Even though it was pre printed it was a challenge. I feel that I made a good choice doing it first and think it will be a good choice for you as well. There may be people who may try to make you think it is less then another quilt cause it was preprinted but don't let them lessen your achievement. I let them do that to me but came to realize my quilt is wonderful and I am very proud of it. Anyone that knows quilts will know how much work went into it. Quilt for YOU!!!

anita211

I am for the pre-stenciled ones! I have marked them and know that they are hard to do. I prefer to use those from Benartex. If you all would look back, you would see that I was the first to mention pre-stenciled ones that I got on eBay.

Anita in Northfield

k_jupiter

So Anita... What exactly am I working on? I machine piece, I now have a mid-arm machine that I do the quilting on. It's not a quilt? What is it exactly?

Oh yes, it takes many months for me to complete my what-ever-they-ares because, I have a real job too.

tim, confused, in san jose

Carol W

My comment was to Quilter 1234.

I can't wait to see the wholecloth quilt. :)

anita211

Tim,

My quilting friends and I here in MN, think a real quilt is one that is hand quilted. I am not speaking of art quilts. I have seen some of your work, Tim, and you make a whole lot of art stuff, even though you use some traditioanal patterns. I don't care how long it takes to machine quilt something. When it is done, it is not soft usually. It can't be with metallic thread or that yucky plastic fishing line-type stuff that is used.

I have a quilt on my bed that I bought on eBay because my old one was tearing and was close to totally worn out. It is lovely, and I am happy with it, except it isn't soft. The denseness of the stippling makes it hard. It doesn't drape nicely, to take a word from my former tailoring life. I believe that quilts should be soft. I have an antique hand quilted Amish quilt that is soft. Even after all these years, it is soft. And it drapes lovely over a railing. Hawaiian echo quilts are lovely and they are densely quilted, and they are still soft.

I am working on a machine sewn, tied comforter. I will put in some edge stitching on the borders. It is utilitarian and will be used on my bed that also houses a dog, cat and 200 lb. man. It isn't meant to be anything other that it is. It is a bed cover. I have seen it quilted in the ditch which is almost as utilitarian as you can get, but on a large quilt, it takes time. I am doing something 'down and dirty' to get it done.

Google Lovers Knot by Eleanor Burns to see the pattern. Or go to Amazon and do the same thing... you will find the pattern I am using. I have two rows around 42 half log cabin blocks to complete. Then a good ironing, and it will be put together and ironed again. I made the first one in a day or two, and that included cutting. This one will take a week. No biggie. I have the one that is there if I need warmth.

I am not going to discuss what my thoughts are any longer on what is or isn't a quilt. I was trying to help with wholecloths which are hand quilted.

I don't care what others think. I have been doing this for a long time, and feel that a real quilt is one that is machine sewn and is quilted by hand. Or, in the case of the Grandmother's Garden, the English paper piecing by hand is implemented.

I will continue with the craft as I see fit. I bet there are people here that knit, crochet, or cross stitch also. And I bet there are as many ways to do that as there is quilting. Get off my case. I call it an art regardless of the finished product.

Anita in Northfield

QuiltyLisa

I have a whole cloth wall hanging in the works and I have been working on hand quilting it off and on for a year. Its alot of work.
here is the link to the one I am working on. its the Welsh wall hanging.

http://www.ericas.com/quilting/wholecloth.htm

Lisa

Ninnie

I too am a hand quilter , NOT because I think that is the only right way to do it, just because that is the way I like to do it! It is only a matter of preference.


To say that all other quits are not real , is just not so! I have seen beautiful machine quilts on this board, and I have been filled with envy for them I have tried to quilt on my machine, and haven't been able to learn how yet, so I know it is hard to learn!

I also have watched longarm quilters do their craft, and I do mean craft! It is a hard thing to learn to do , and the freearm quilting is just beautiful. It takes these quilters a long time to learn the art of longarm quilting.

Any quilt that is made with love, is special! no mater how it is quilted. And machine quilts can and are soft also!


I am not a "QUILTING SNOB" and definitely not the Quilt Police, they scare me. :wink:

There is room in this quilting world of ours for all quilters and for that I am truly grateful

Now, about art quilts! Those are in a whole class of their own! People who make them are so talented and creative, that sometimes it blows my mind. The hours they spend designing and sewing these. I can only imagine how frustrating it must be when something doesn't work for them and they have to start all over. Again I have been envious of some of them.


So now I will get down off of my soap box!

I am just an old fashioned quilter that loves all kinds of quilts!


Ninnie in NC

Ninnie

Sorry 1234, It seems we have sorta of hijacked your post! Not a nice tihng to do, You just hang in there and do it your way and I truly can't wait to see pictures~! Ninnie