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I have decided to start my QAYG with another BOM quilt from last year, which will be much easier and smaller. Here is the photo of the blocks. I think this will make a darling baby quilt! The photo is really faded, but oh well, you get the idea. I'm going to use a white on white, as I think the white from my display board looks pretty good with it. That is my cat Mr. on my ironing board.
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Patricia, nice job. Jeanie your blocks will make a nice quilt. Some intricate piecing in several of them. Isn't it nice when these blocks find a suitable home?
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JeanieG- Sectional QAYG is pretty much as it sounds. Instead of Block by Block quilting as we are doing in the current method. Sections ( Rows or Quadrants ) are quilted at the same time. You found some awesome blocks to work with. They are beautiful. :thumbup:
Denek - Welcome to the thread I hope you will share your quilted blocks and progress with us here. :thumbup: Boston1954 - Sounds like its definitely working for you. :thumbup: PatriciaFaye - The back side of your quilt looks great, Im glad JeanieG was able to help you with the resizing of your pictures. Have you started working on the borders. Im looking forward to seeing them. :thumbup::thumbup: |
Boston - these are really cute blocks. She will be so surprised !!
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Originally Posted by dublb
(Post 5461932)
I'll share what little I know about battin'. First cheap polyester is easiest ta hand quilt & can be quilted up ta 10" apart., but I wanted sometin' that was more natural, so I tried wool. Wow, that stuff is awesome ta hand quilt & machine but must be quilted at least 3 inches apart. It's not as puffy as polyester. It does shrink some, but I like the crinkled look. :) I havent used any cotton/poly mix battin', except for on a 6 hour quilt. It had ta be quilted at least 4 inches apart. I haven't seen DDIL use it so I don't know how it has lasted. It did look good though. I did have ta go back & add another line o' quiltin' 'cause the 6 hour quilt is 6 inches. I haven't used 100% cotton yet. (I just love the wool!)
But, I can't work with wool of any kind since I'm allergic to wool. I use Warm & Natural or Warm & White for 99% of my projects and they work well for me. But, I have noticed that Joanns now has 2 thicknesses. I never realized this until I was working on a QAYG project and grabbed for more batting to find it was thinner than what I was working with.....so off to Joanns to buy more (obviously more expensive by a few dollars). The only thing I don't like about poly batting is when you cut / trim it, it has all those fine fibers left behind or flying around in the air. Maybe someone can tell me if I'm cutting it wrong or something. |
Jenniky - Looking forward to seeing the next option. Enjoying all the beautiful quilts getting done. Now I need to get my commissioned work finished so I can do some "fun" sewing for me. My Fibro has been taking its toll on me this past week so not getting much done right now.
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Sorry, but I have never tried wool batting. I cannot touch it. Allergic. I was also allergic to chocolate when I was a kid. Thank goodness I outgrew that!!! :-)
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The wool battin' is warmer in the winter but breaths in the summer so is is cooler than the poly. It is expensive & I try ta buy it on sale, or save up for it. :)
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Jeanie that's gonna be precious!
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I had already started on a QAYG using orphaned/scrappy blocks, trying to use them up. Some are attempts at learning my embroidery machine, some are my learning to paper piece, etc.
Here they are. I have 30- 14" blocks, so I plan on using a 5x6 layout. Here are some pictures. They aren't all that compelling and nearly as interesting as you all's but hopefully when I'm done, it will be a respectable scrappy quilt-- |
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