Wonky golf quilt
12-13-2013, 11:40 AM
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Wonky golf quilt
Last year my oldest son bought a house on the local golf course and my youngest son is living with him. My oldest has a golf quilt that I made a couple of years ago so I decided to make one for the other as a Christmas gift.
He said he was going to get some furniture for the room where their tv is and said he hadn't decided yet, gray or brown, but had a lot of time since it would be after the first of the year.
So I decided to mix some gray and some brown into one quilt
I had a print in my stash that would work, and if you looked really really close, you can see brown and gray!
For quilting, I just stitched in every ditch and stitched a big diamond, and that was it. I knew if I added anything too curvy, it might be deemed too girly (this is a bachelor house dontcha know!)
New things I tried - all worked out well and will be used more often -
cutting the batting into 3 sections so it's easier to fmg on my home sewing machine
using Elmer's to hold the sandwich together - no pins necessary
gluing the binding the Sharon Schamber way
I used a free pattern from this page, called a walk in the woods
http://www.unitednotions.com/fp/free...-polaroid.html
The only thing I did differently was to stitch the long rectangles diagonally BEFORE cutting, that way I didn't have to deal with a bias edge. It was a very easy pattern, and there sure are a lot of them on that 'for free' page. I think I'm going to be very busy
Just remembered - another thing I did differently was to make each block just a half inch bigger so if my wonky square points didn't meet, it wouldn't matter
He said he was going to get some furniture for the room where their tv is and said he hadn't decided yet, gray or brown, but had a lot of time since it would be after the first of the year.
So I decided to mix some gray and some brown into one quilt
I had a print in my stash that would work, and if you looked really really close, you can see brown and gray!
For quilting, I just stitched in every ditch and stitched a big diamond, and that was it. I knew if I added anything too curvy, it might be deemed too girly (this is a bachelor house dontcha know!)
New things I tried - all worked out well and will be used more often -
cutting the batting into 3 sections so it's easier to fmg on my home sewing machine
using Elmer's to hold the sandwich together - no pins necessary
gluing the binding the Sharon Schamber way
I used a free pattern from this page, called a walk in the woods
http://www.unitednotions.com/fp/free...-polaroid.html
The only thing I did differently was to stitch the long rectangles diagonally BEFORE cutting, that way I didn't have to deal with a bias edge. It was a very easy pattern, and there sure are a lot of them on that 'for free' page. I think I'm going to be very busy
Just remembered - another thing I did differently was to make each block just a half inch bigger so if my wonky square points didn't meet, it wouldn't matter
Last edited by RugosaB; 12-13-2013 at 11:44 AM. Reason: forgot
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