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Double Irish Chain, Red White and Blue - Officially addicted to Quilting

Old 02-11-2013, 11:10 AM
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Default Double Irish Chain, Red White and Blue - Officially addicted to Quilting

I saw a picture of an antique quilt like this and it is what made me declare - I'm going to make one like that! Never pieced anything in my life - done some costumes for my daughter as she did theatre in HS and the odd sewing project - what was I thinking! Now I'm an addict!! I have now been quilting for a year - I'm not prolific - slow and lots of ripping is my motto! I can't stand it when things don't line up - think I've used up at least 2 seam rippers - or maybe they are just hiding somewhere in my sewing room in self defense-lol. Anyway - this is my first quilt top - I was actually going to do straight line quilting on it and donate for a fund raiser at my husbands office (Air Force Christmas party:-) Anyway - DH declared "We are keeping that one!" So I pieced a back (the last three pics) and put both away until I worked up the courage to sandwich and quilt it. I've now decided that it deserves more than my skill set for quilting so will be sending it to a LAer, I suspect someone from this board if they will have it. There are so many on here that do phenomenal work.
The Hopi quilt was my second pieced top and the first that I actually quilted. Two in a year - pretty darn slow since I'm not hand piecing and quilting:-) I must say thanks to all on this board - I have learned so much here and have improved because of you guys. Thank you!
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Old 02-11-2013, 11:19 AM
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Must always keep your first! You'll regret it if you don't. Be sure to take pictures of the ones you give away. Another regret. You are doing fantastic, keep up the great work!!
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You did a great job!!
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Old 02-11-2013, 11:21 AM
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Great quilt top and back! That is going to be one handsome quilt!
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Old 02-11-2013, 11:23 AM
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Double WOW for your Double Irish Chain!!!!!!!!! I would keep it too!
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Gorgeous! Enjoy them.
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your first is always a keepsake and becomes an heirloom. so glad you kept it.
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Old 02-11-2013, 11:51 AM
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Looks great! Just one comment.
Long arm quilters are often not able to line up pieced motifs on backs, especially when your motif is centered both left to right and top to bottom. You really need to have a heart to heart talk with your long armer BEFORE he or she takes the job ro see if they can handle it.
Here's one of several posts on this topic:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/persona...s-t208948.html
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Wow! Great first quilt! Congrats! Keep up the good work!
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Old 02-11-2013, 12:12 PM
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Originally Posted by PaperPrincess View Post
Looks great! Just one comment.
Long arm quilters are often not able to line up pieced motifs on backs, especially when your motif is centered both left to right and top to bottom. You really need to have a heart to heart talk with your long armer BEFORE he or she takes the job ro see if they can handle it.
Here's one of several posts on this topic:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/persona...s-t208948.html
Thank you for your response. I'm not so concerned about the back - it was fabric I was using up - bought way to much blue - a result of not really knowing what I was doing and the graph paper I drew it out on did not give me yardage - go figure!! The star fabric was some stuff I bought years ago at Hancock fabric on clearance - think I was going to make PJ bottoms for my daughter - you can see how far I got on that. I guess I was building a stash before I even knew what a stash was-lol. I'm not trying to get a reversible quilt - just wanted something on the back that wasn't boring:-)

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