Scrappy Postage Stamp Quilt
08-20-2017, 02:33 PM
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I made a postage stamp quilt many,many years ago, long before strip piecing. Cut out individual pieces and sewed them together in rows of 10X10 = 10 inch blocks then put it all together. Really love your layout and all the white background.....
08-21-2017, 06:47 AM
#26
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Thank you for all of the lovely comments. If anyone wants to make this or something similar, I used this tutorial:
http://www.seamstobeyouandme.com/201...p-piecing-way/
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I stopped at the "Chain 2" part. It was at that point that I knew I was in trouble. I ended up laying everything out and trying to make it large enough and interesting enough without making more stamps. This was the layout I settled on:
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Then I just cut pieces of white at 8.5" x 4.5" to fill the centers:
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Then I added 11.5' x 8.5" white squares in the center and some 2.5" sashing between the rows:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]579283[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]579284[/ATTACH]
Finally I kept adding borders until it was the size I wanted. I refused to buy extra fabric for it, so I just pulled whatever I had that I wanted to use up. All of the white is bleached 44" muslin and the backing is a flat sheet.
The quilting part is simple serpentine stitches with almost equal spacing from top to bottom:
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]579288[/ATTACH]
http://www.seamstobeyouandme.com/201...p-piecing-way/
[ATTACH=CONFIG]579281[/ATTACH]
I stopped at the "Chain 2" part. It was at that point that I knew I was in trouble. I ended up laying everything out and trying to make it large enough and interesting enough without making more stamps. This was the layout I settled on:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]579279[/ATTACH]
Then I just cut pieces of white at 8.5" x 4.5" to fill the centers:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]579282[/ATTACH]
Then I added 11.5' x 8.5" white squares in the center and some 2.5" sashing between the rows:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]579283[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]579284[/ATTACH]
Finally I kept adding borders until it was the size I wanted. I refused to buy extra fabric for it, so I just pulled whatever I had that I wanted to use up. All of the white is bleached 44" muslin and the backing is a flat sheet.
The quilting part is simple serpentine stitches with almost equal spacing from top to bottom:
[ATTACH=CONFIG]579286[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]579288[/ATTACH]
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