Poe Nevermore Quilt
04-19-2013, 04:33 PM
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This is a gorgeous quilt. I love the entire thing. (The fabric, borders, corners, binding, quilting & yes, even the spiders.) Thanks for sharing and continue doing what you are doing.
Blessings.
Blessings.
04-21-2013, 12:57 PM
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[QUOTE=Though I must admit I cringed a little when I read "an old quilt from 1960" - that doesn't seem "old" to me - oh, well.[/QUOTE]
Me too! I felt the pang! Does that mean in the eyes of the young we are older than dirt?! lol
Me too! I felt the pang! Does that mean in the eyes of the young we are older than dirt?! lol
04-22-2013, 10:26 PM
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Originally Posted by jeanharville
I love your quilt. My stepson is a huge Poe fan and I would love to make one like yours for him. what did you use to tie it with? Would crochet yarn work? I think I also have on hand embroidery thread, that might be stronger and look better. What do you think?
i used regular DMC cotton embroidery thread, all six strands, and I tied it using a surgeon's knot, as seen in this tutorial http://youtu.be/PeaIyAyg_cs i do not know if crochet yarn would work, sorry!
after all the feedback i think i got the tying spacing right for the type of batting i used. This one was a simple thin muslin center and i tied using the embroidery floss at every corner in the sashing, so every 6.5" plus also in the polka dot layer. I think that distance would be great for a thin flannel insert, too.
after tugging at some warm and natural batting i'm not sure i'd trust just a tie method. it looks like the batting would start to shred itself after a while from the tie points.
thanks again for all the input!
and by a quilt from the 1960s being old... i just meant it's the oldest thing i actually own. i wasn't raised by my family and don't have any pictures of them or even any pictures of myself as a child so having this one quilt by my grandmother is very special. and that's my basis for calling it old. trust me, i'm from that time too. we're all getting older!
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