8:00 PM and I need boy fabric!
05-23-2012, 03:26 AM
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Thanks so much for posting an "in progress" - although I loved your fabrics when you first posted, I had no idea what I would have done with them. Your choice is so much better than anything I would have imagined. Keep posting!
05-23-2012, 05:41 AM
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So I go into quilt shops and it sounds like I'm hearing a whole Brooklyn Tablernacle CHOIR!!! lol Now I know why. lol
and it is even worse when the whole top is telling you where it belongs 
LOL
05-23-2012, 06:16 AM
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So where do I go? Wal-mart. Where I find expanded shelves AND a clerk on duty! She said that after Sept.1 there will be a remodel - a larger department and possibly a full-time clerk.
Yes, I prefer my LQS. But ... this is for a high school grad from our church. I make a quilt for each graduate and this one fell through the cracks. Even his own uncle - who is our youth director - forgot he was graduating. So .. I tried my stash, but nothing felt right. I'm going to make a point of picking up more guy fabs when I find sales.
Side Note: I had some great guy fq's, but when I put them together they didn't feel like this young man - they felt like our dear preacher whose 10th anniversary with us will be this fall so ... they certainly couldn't go to this grad! (Anyone know what I mean there... I even started quilting it and told my husband ... this is not Garrett's quilt. It's John's.)
So ... the far right fab is the center of a block, framed with the black. The next 3 are borders and the last one is the backing. Paid from $3.94 to $5.44/yd.
Off of here and to the cutting board!
Yes, I prefer my LQS. But ... this is for a high school grad from our church. I make a quilt for each graduate and this one fell through the cracks. Even his own uncle - who is our youth director - forgot he was graduating. So .. I tried my stash, but nothing felt right. I'm going to make a point of picking up more guy fabs when I find sales.
Side Note: I had some great guy fq's, but when I put them together they didn't feel like this young man - they felt like our dear preacher whose 10th anniversary with us will be this fall so ... they certainly couldn't go to this grad! (Anyone know what I mean there... I even started quilting it and told my husband ... this is not Garrett's quilt. It's John's.)
So ... the far right fab is the center of a block, framed with the black. The next 3 are borders and the last one is the backing. Paid from $3.94 to $5.44/yd.
Off of here and to the cutting board!
05-23-2012, 07:21 AM
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Rachel - I love that idea, but this is a zippedy-doo-dah quilt -- gotta get it done FAST -- and I bought just enough for each piece. I used Robert kaufmann's Quilt Calculator - an app on my phone - to figure the borders and it was a TIGHT fit! Trimmed them even to start the cuts and then had a sliver left over.
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