Newbies challenge
11-19-2010, 06:18 AM
#1281
Super Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Southern IL
Posts: 1,265
I've adopted one & we've become good friends! I've adopted dasmith! Well I've become friends with her & we even talk on the phone about 2-3 times a week. I've told her I'm willing to help in any way I can on projects she's working on if she has problems. We've learned alot about each other & I can't wait to meet in person. She lives close to my favorite quilt shop so once things slow down here I hope to meet her for lunch & a drop in the shop!
11-19-2010, 06:27 AM
#1282
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Washburn, North Dakota
Posts: 257
Originally Posted by Izaquilter
I've adopted one & we've become good friends! I've adopted dasmith! Well I've become friends with her & we even talk on the phone about 2-3 times a week. I've told her I'm willing to help in any way I can on projects she's working on if she has problems. We've learned alot about each other & I can't wait to meet in person. She lives close to my favorite quilt shop so once things slow down here I hope to meet her for lunch & a drop in the shop!
Yes, becoming "friends" is an added bonus, I am home all the time so I can 'talk' or web cam or catch emails pretty fast throughout the day.
I'm also in another group, we're small & have grown very close, know whats happening to each other, and when we travel we see if anyone lives along our route. One came up to the Dakotas and met me, she's from Arizona. I went to OR and met one. I think Quilters always have a common thread that binds us..nothing else seems to matter ;D
11-19-2010, 06:45 AM
#1283
Member
Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Antelope Valley,California
Posts: 67
Originally Posted by quazyquilter
I would like to challenge all the "veteran" quilters on this board to find a "newbie" and adopt one. I have taken one under my wing, so to speak and I am teaching her to quilt via this board, e-mail and the phone.
There are some "newbies" out there that would probably welcome our help and guidance and have lots of questions that maybe they are too shy to ask, or they may not know how to ask about certain things, for fear that they will be considered "dumb questions".
So, QUILTERS,UNITE!!!
I would love someone to adopt me!!!! 49 yr old brand new quilter, mom to 4 kids and 3 kitties!!!!!I am mostly doing handwork at this time.
p.s. don't take butterjoy, she's mine! :lol: :D :roll:
There are some "newbies" out there that would probably welcome our help and guidance and have lots of questions that maybe they are too shy to ask, or they may not know how to ask about certain things, for fear that they will be considered "dumb questions".
So, QUILTERS,UNITE!!!
I would love someone to adopt me!!!! 49 yr old brand new quilter, mom to 4 kids and 3 kitties!!!!!I am mostly doing handwork at this time.
p.s. don't take butterjoy, she's mine! :lol: :D :roll:
11-19-2010, 08:01 AM
#1285
Super Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: ILLINOIS
Posts: 2,053
Hi stevendebbie25,
Well I am with you on not liking the job of cutting out the patterns. When this is done, you are likely to have some that are cut crooked than you are with buying the lazer cut ones.
I have made several Dresden Plates in different sizes, a grandmothers flower garden, a couple of star quilts and some with diamonds (in my ufo collection)
When you get the hang of basting the fabric onto the template you can go quite quickly making them. Anyway, the lazer cut templates are reusable quite a few times. And the way you do it is to lay whatever fabric you are going to use face down and lay the template on top of it Your fabric needs to have the 1/4 inch seam allowance figured in and that 1/4" is what you turn over onto the template. What I do is put a small pin in the center to hold the 2 pieces together and then cut around the template (remember the 1/4 extra. I just hold the shape in my hand and fold over and do a basting stitch through the paper and fabric. When you get to a corner, just fold it over and keep on basting around.
Is this clear as mud to you at this point?
You leave the paper in the piece until it has been attached to another piece and the pattern is what decides this.
The Dresden Plate comes in several sizes. I have one on my table ready to baste for hand quilting.
This one has 16 paper pieced parts and they are whip stitch together to form a circle and then appliqued onto a block. After it is appliques onto the block, then you can take the paper out. This is one of my favorite patterns.
paperpieces.com is a nice site that has lots of different shaped templates and these are more exact than the ones y ou cut your self.
Well till next lesson, I hope this will answer some of your questions.
It was nice to be able to pass on some of my "knowledge" lol to someone else to use. Happy EE Paper Piecing.
Pat
homecaregiver
Well I am with you on not liking the job of cutting out the patterns. When this is done, you are likely to have some that are cut crooked than you are with buying the lazer cut ones.
I have made several Dresden Plates in different sizes, a grandmothers flower garden, a couple of star quilts and some with diamonds (in my ufo collection)
When you get the hang of basting the fabric onto the template you can go quite quickly making them. Anyway, the lazer cut templates are reusable quite a few times. And the way you do it is to lay whatever fabric you are going to use face down and lay the template on top of it Your fabric needs to have the 1/4 inch seam allowance figured in and that 1/4" is what you turn over onto the template. What I do is put a small pin in the center to hold the 2 pieces together and then cut around the template (remember the 1/4 extra. I just hold the shape in my hand and fold over and do a basting stitch through the paper and fabric. When you get to a corner, just fold it over and keep on basting around.
Is this clear as mud to you at this point?
You leave the paper in the piece until it has been attached to another piece and the pattern is what decides this.
The Dresden Plate comes in several sizes. I have one on my table ready to baste for hand quilting.
This one has 16 paper pieced parts and they are whip stitch together to form a circle and then appliqued onto a block. After it is appliques onto the block, then you can take the paper out. This is one of my favorite patterns.
paperpieces.com is a nice site that has lots of different shaped templates and these are more exact than the ones y ou cut your self.
Well till next lesson, I hope this will answer some of your questions.
It was nice to be able to pass on some of my "knowledge" lol to someone else to use. Happy EE Paper Piecing.
Pat
homecaregiver
11-19-2010, 09:32 AM
#1286
Junior Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Washburn, North Dakota
Posts: 257
Originally Posted by homecaregiver
Hi stevendebbie25,
Well I am with you on not liking the job of cutting out the patterns. When this is done, you are likely to have some that are cut crooked than you are with buying the lazer cut ones.
I have made several Dresden Plates in different sizes, a grandmothers flower garden, a couple of star quilts and some with diamonds (in my ufo collection)
When you get the hang of basting the fabric onto the template you can go quite quickly making them. Anyway, the lazer cut templates are reusable quite a few times. And the way you do it is to lay whatever fabric you are going to use face down and lay the template on top of it Your fabric needs to have the 1/4 inch seam allowance figured in and that 1/4" is what you turn over onto the template. What I do is put a small pin in the center to hold the 2 pieces together and then cut around the template (remember the 1/4 extra. I just hold the shape in my hand and fold over and do a basting stitch through the paper and fabric. When you get to a corner, just fold it over and keep on basting around.
Is this clear as mud to you at this point?
You leave the paper in the piece until it has been attached to another piece and the pattern is what decides this.
The Dresden Plate comes in several sizes. I have one on my table ready to baste for hand quilting.
This one has 16 paper pieced parts and they are whip stitch together to form a circle and then appliqued onto a block. After it is appliques onto the block, then you can take the paper out. This is one of my favorite patterns.
paperpieces.com is a nice site that has lots of different shaped templates and these are more exact than the ones y ou cut your self.
Well till next lesson, I hope this will answer some of your questions.
It was nice to be able to pass on some of my "knowledge" lol to someone else to use. Happy EE Paper Piecing.
Pat
homecaregiver
Well I am with you on not liking the job of cutting out the patterns. When this is done, you are likely to have some that are cut crooked than you are with buying the lazer cut ones.
I have made several Dresden Plates in different sizes, a grandmothers flower garden, a couple of star quilts and some with diamonds (in my ufo collection)
When you get the hang of basting the fabric onto the template you can go quite quickly making them. Anyway, the lazer cut templates are reusable quite a few times. And the way you do it is to lay whatever fabric you are going to use face down and lay the template on top of it Your fabric needs to have the 1/4 inch seam allowance figured in and that 1/4" is what you turn over onto the template. What I do is put a small pin in the center to hold the 2 pieces together and then cut around the template (remember the 1/4 extra. I just hold the shape in my hand and fold over and do a basting stitch through the paper and fabric. When you get to a corner, just fold it over and keep on basting around.
Is this clear as mud to you at this point?
You leave the paper in the piece until it has been attached to another piece and the pattern is what decides this.
The Dresden Plate comes in several sizes. I have one on my table ready to baste for hand quilting.
This one has 16 paper pieced parts and they are whip stitch together to form a circle and then appliqued onto a block. After it is appliques onto the block, then you can take the paper out. This is one of my favorite patterns.
paperpieces.com is a nice site that has lots of different shaped templates and these are more exact than the ones y ou cut your self.
Well till next lesson, I hope this will answer some of your questions.
It was nice to be able to pass on some of my "knowledge" lol to someone else to use. Happy EE Paper Piecing.
Pat
homecaregiver
Ooops, wondered why this wasn't answered... forgot to send it, got pulled away by GD(age 3).
11-19-2010, 07:18 PM
#1287
Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Missouri
Posts: 1
I would love to be adopted. I have many patterns, books, and magazines. I have made a couple small quilts, and would love to have someone that could help and guide me. I don't do the quilting part, just the sewing part, would love to be able to learn the machine quilting part. One thing at a time....lol
11-20-2010, 06:36 AM
#1288
Super Member
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Southern IL
Posts: 1,265
Nope quilting is the word! Once we open our mouths & say "quilting" to another quilter, it's like you've been friends forever! I'll never forget when I went to Paducah the first couple times & how friendly everyone was. I always went with a group of other quilters but after I'd gone a couple times I'd decided that it didn't matter if there were others there or not because everyone talks to everyone. We all have the same interests & there it doesn't matter if you're rich, in between, or poor we all talk & have something in common. Unlike here at home, some of the quilters think they are LA TE DAH if you know what I mean but I guess there's always one egg that spoils the dozen! But that's ok, you can always toss that one to the side & make use of the other 11 !!!!
11-21-2010, 03:13 AM
#1289
Super Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Lebanon Maine
Posts: 1,313
I still consider myself a newbie. I did some log cabins , rip and stitch, years ago but that was it. No quilting either...they were embroidery floss tied. I have been trying to collect cloth and saving patterns and all kinds of tips I see on here.. Great teachers are here and I am thankful for that.. You all could write a book!
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