WendyMcD

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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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.

AprilM

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.

Jingle

Beautiful quilt top.

bearisgray

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

PineHaven

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

LAF2019

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.

Peckish

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

ILoveToQuilt

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!

Gay

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.

ka9sdn

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