Build a quilt around a central character you design
07-16-2012, 03:59 PM
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How long is this challenge going to last? Mine will take a while. I think I am going to make Hello Kitty visit Downeast Maine. I would like to make at least a twin, but no larger than a double size quilt. I will make a large center block and smaller ones around. I have a lot of other projects started, so I don't know long it will take me to complete. I am getting the last of my quilt completed for the state quilt show. It needs to be delivered this saturday.
07-16-2012, 04:23 PM
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Good luck with the quilt show. 
I think the challenge lasts as long as people are working on and posting so could be a very long time. I know it will almost take me a full year to make mine. As Im going to design a PP pattern for each of Mikey's friends. Then I have to find the right fabric and Im a multi-tasker so I have to work on what ever is in tune with my creative juices.
I think the challenge lasts as long as people are working on and posting so could be a very long time. I know it will almost take me a full year to make mine. As Im going to design a PP pattern for each of Mikey's friends. Then I have to find the right fabric and Im a multi-tasker so I have to work on what ever is in tune with my creative juices.
07-16-2012, 05:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Jenniky
Good luck with the quilt show. I think the challenge lasts as long as people are working on and posting so could be a very long time. I know it will almost take me a full year to make mine. As Im going to design a PP pattern for each of Mikey's friends. Then I have to find the right fabric and Im a multi-tasker so I have to work on what ever is in tune with my creative juices.
I think the challenge lasts as long as people are working on and posting so could be a very long time. I know it will almost take me a full year to make mine. As Im going to design a PP pattern for each of Mikey's friends. Then I have to find the right fabric and Im a multi-tasker so I have to work on what ever is in tune with my creative juices. I finally ordered the fabric for my Wall-E though. Now I just have to figure out the best way to print the pattern!!Rachel
07-16-2012, 07:17 PM
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And soooo ... another Canuck joins the fold!!! Yipppppeeeeeeee
Welcome HuntersGrammie!!!!
Don't let your newbie-ness intimidate you. You have the advantage of not knowing something might be hard ... just go for it!!! It's the best way to learn You've got some great ideas for your centre. What about doing it as an applique? You could do it the old fashioned way ... or the more modern way, where you stick it onto the fabric, and then machine stitch around. And to have the bandanas to work with ... and lots of fabrics out there that would work well for a southwestern theme.
We'll all be here to help encourage you, nudge you ... and help you figure out how and what to do! Good Luck!
TooManyUFOs ... ditto to what Jenniky said, this is going to be a thread that'll never end! And I'll be ensuring that as I too have lots of things on the go ... plus I want to make sure I find the fabric that I really want. And will be taking time in between to consider what other things to add to the design.
AthenaGwis ... Yea for ordering your fabrics! Did you go with solids? or?
Me? ... I too usually have more than one thing on the go ... and then depends on what I "feel like" doing as to what I work on. Sometimes I want something mindless to do, and then there's the times I'm up for detailed work, and then there's minis and and and ..............................
Welcome HuntersGrammie!!!!
Don't let your newbie-ness intimidate you. You have the advantage of not knowing something might be hard ... just go for it!!! It's the best way to learn You've got some great ideas for your centre. What about doing it as an applique? You could do it the old fashioned way ... or the more modern way, where you stick it onto the fabric, and then machine stitch around. And to have the bandanas to work with ... and lots of fabrics out there that would work well for a southwestern theme.
We'll all be here to help encourage you, nudge you ... and help you figure out how and what to do! Good Luck!
TooManyUFOs ... ditto to what Jenniky said, this is going to be a thread that'll never end! And I'll be ensuring that as I too have lots of things on the go ... plus I want to make sure I find the fabric that I really want. And will be taking time in between to consider what other things to add to the design.
AthenaGwis ... Yea for ordering your fabrics! Did you go with solids? or?
Me? ... I too usually have more than one thing on the go ... and then depends on what I "feel like" doing as to what I work on. Sometimes I want something mindless to do, and then there's the times I'm up for detailed work, and then there's minis and and and ..............................
Last edited by QuiltE; 07-16-2012 at 07:23 PM.
07-17-2012, 03:51 AM
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HuntersGrammie - I also welcome you. I lived in Arizona for many years and I love it and would go back in a heartbeat if all my children and grandchildren had not migrated to the Eastern part of the U.S. We lived in Mesa and then in Gilbert which was heaven as far as I was concerned. Im a Kokopelli fan myself and have this pattern waiting in the wings as a someday project.
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Athenagwis - When you say solids does that include tone on tones.. I always wondered if like Gray on Gray was considered a solid. I suppose not..answering my own question but I find I treat tone on tones that way. I plan on using more solids as I continue to explore FMQ. LOL right now though I find I keep looking for prints to hide uneven stitch movements. Its interesting as my learning process continues. Each project scope seems to get bigger and bigger. For example at first I just focused on what color fabric would make the pattern I was trying to attempt look pleasing. Then I started being a little more careful about what fabric prints I chose because I started to understand a bit more about the dynamics of large and small prints and of course colors. The color value of the fabric so to speak. Now when choosing fabric I also think of the quilting design that will go on the fabric as Im selecting fabrics which was something I really never considered before. I have to be honest in my life I dont think I have ever held the fascination of learning and building on ideas then since I started learning to quilt.
Have you solved the problem of how to print out your pattern yet? Im looking at purchasing a wide print printer. I ran into the same problem when I was wanting to print out the design for my Horse Block for the June Contest. I ended up redrawing pieces of my pattern on white gift wrapping tissue. Then I was able to PP the large block background that way. I then appliqued the Horse on top of the PP background. It worked out very well for me. Im very interested to know how you solve the large print PP.
Have a wonderful day Ladies
Jen
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Athenagwis - When you say solids does that include tone on tones.. I always wondered if like Gray on Gray was considered a solid. I suppose not..answering my own question but I find I treat tone on tones that way. I plan on using more solids as I continue to explore FMQ. LOL right now though I find I keep looking for prints to hide uneven stitch movements.
Its interesting as my learning process continues. Each project scope seems to get bigger and bigger. For example at first I just focused on what color fabric would make the pattern I was trying to attempt look pleasing. Then I started being a little more careful about what fabric prints I chose because I started to understand a bit more about the dynamics of large and small prints and of course colors. The color value of the fabric so to speak. Now when choosing fabric I also think of the quilting design that will go on the fabric as Im selecting fabrics which was something I really never considered before. I have to be honest in my life I dont think I have ever held the fascination of learning and building on ideas then since I started learning to quilt. Have you solved the problem of how to print out your pattern yet? Im looking at purchasing a wide print printer. I ran into the same problem when I was wanting to print out the design for my Horse Block for the June Contest. I ended up redrawing pieces of my pattern on white gift wrapping tissue. Then I was able to PP the large block background that way. I then appliqued the Horse on top of the PP background. It worked out very well for me. Im very interested to know how you solve the large print PP.
Have a wonderful day Ladies
Jen
07-17-2012, 04:25 AM
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Jenniky ... What a great pattern you have there, waiting in the wings. Would you call it a subtle bargello? You have my attention on it and I like how they have the black in between the colours, and yet it still lets those little kokopelli guys pop out at you. And then I see a vision of other colour combos, with a different silhouette overtop!
Printers ... I still only have a B+W laser. I keep saying I'm getting a colour inkjet, so that I can print labels, and print online patterns I find in more than greys! Large size printers can be costly and for most, I'm not sure it'd be worth the $ output for the ROI! ... what about just using Staples, Kinkos, etc. when you need a large page print out? Or the old fashioned way, of taping pages together?
About the fabrics ... I think what you're talking about is TOT reads like a solid!
There's also, small prints which I was always told were called "nothing prints" that have more than one colour, that read like a solid. A lot of people seem to refer to them and the TOTs as blenders.
Reads like a solid ... the idea being that you step back, and you basically see a solid, yet with the different colours or tones in it you get some depth and movement that you don't get with the flatness of true solids.
Some favourites that I've seen and used ... If you take a look at my FWS sashings/borders you can see Krystal by Michael Miller. There's umpteen different colours in that line. Another line that has several different designs are Fusions by Robert Kaufman, and within each of the designs are umpteen colours, and some with over a hundred choices! They're great possibilities, as there can be several tones/tints/shades of one colour, not just a take it or leave it, here's the one and only green! Fusions Mist are my PC borders and cornerstones.
There's several Marbles around. Stonehenge have some good blender fabrics too. And another bunch within Stonehenge that I re one and in betweens, sometime all within a colour family eg. all beige/browns, or mixed, eg. blue/greens. They can be really effective and give such a different look. And oh, don't forget batiks for TOT/blenders that can provide wow-power amidst non-batiks.
I've learned so much about these types of fabrics since I came to the QB and keep learning. Then there's "Colour" that keeps me stymied and mystified! I totally do not understand that part of sewing and how to make it all work together. I have a long long way to go.
For it all, the more I learn, the more I want to learn and then I discover how much I don't know! So I learn some more. Then Repeat!!
I know I have a long way to go. I am a true WIP!!!
Printers ... I still only have a B+W laser. I keep saying I'm getting a colour inkjet, so that I can print labels, and print online patterns I find in more than greys! Large size printers can be costly and for most, I'm not sure it'd be worth the $ output for the ROI! ... what about just using Staples, Kinkos, etc. when you need a large page print out? Or the old fashioned way, of taping pages together?
About the fabrics ... I think what you're talking about is TOT reads like a solid!
There's also, small prints which I was always told were called "nothing prints" that have more than one colour, that read like a solid. A lot of people seem to refer to them and the TOTs as blenders.
Reads like a solid ... the idea being that you step back, and you basically see a solid, yet with the different colours or tones in it you get some depth and movement that you don't get with the flatness of true solids.
Some favourites that I've seen and used ... If you take a look at my FWS sashings/borders you can see Krystal by Michael Miller. There's umpteen different colours in that line. Another line that has several different designs are Fusions by Robert Kaufman, and within each of the designs are umpteen colours, and some with over a hundred choices! They're great possibilities, as there can be several tones/tints/shades of one colour, not just a take it or leave it, here's the one and only green! Fusions Mist are my PC borders and cornerstones.
There's several Marbles around. Stonehenge have some good blender fabrics too. And another bunch within Stonehenge that I re one and in betweens, sometime all within a colour family eg. all beige/browns, or mixed, eg. blue/greens. They can be really effective and give such a different look. And oh, don't forget batiks for TOT/blenders that can provide wow-power amidst non-batiks.
I've learned so much about these types of fabrics since I came to the QB and keep learning. Then there's "Colour" that keeps me stymied and mystified! I totally do not understand that part of sewing and how to make it all work together. I have a long long way to go.
For it all, the more I learn, the more I want to learn and then I discover how much I don't know! So I learn some more. Then Repeat!!
I know I have a long way to go. I am a true WIP!!!
Last edited by QuiltE; 07-17-2012 at 04:28 AM.
07-17-2012, 04:43 AM
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QuiltE its amazing how you stimulate my thoughts and ideas. LOL Im like wow I didnt even think of putting other characters on top of this design. I was very drawn in by the black in between the bargello also. Now Im seeing silloettes of running horses or this would make a awesome background for a silloette of Jenniky and her horse. Hmm I probably could get her blown up larger at Kinko's like you suggested. Well I have a lot of learning to do before I attempt it. But this idea is definitely taking up a couple of pages in my Projects on the Back Burner list.
I drew up Mikey's girlfriend last night. Im thinking her block is going to be applique because she is so curvy. I think Im going to draw up all the blocks Im planning before I actually make anymore squares.
that way I can get the bigger picture of the block layouts, borders and sashings.
I drew up Mikey's girlfriend last night. Im thinking her block is going to be applique because she is so curvy. I think Im going to draw up all the blocks Im planning before I actually make anymore squares.
that way I can get the bigger picture of the block layouts, borders and sashings.
Last edited by Jenniky; 07-17-2012 at 04:46 AM.
07-17-2012, 05:04 AM
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Oh yes ... horses running across that design would be perfect. And yes, Jenniky on her horse, for sure!!!!! You're ready for it ... it wouldn't be all that hard! I think the real trick would be the right fabrics to blend from one to the other so easily.
So Mikey has a ghoulfriend ........ show us! And what else is in the plans?
So Mikey has a ghoulfriend ........ show us!
And what else is in the plans?
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