my new sewing room
06-02-2009, 05:22 PM
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Thank you everybody for your compliments, I am quite proud of it. I must now start working on some projects and make a little mess so that it looks like it is actually used.
quiltncrazy-Thank you for that wonderful compliment. That was very nice. The picture of my house was down loaded into a program called "the big picture". The program put the picture into 6 slices, like tiles. I handed out those slices to the other participants. They traced the pieces onto a plastic report cover, made templates out of the drawings and cut out pieces of fabric and placed on a muslin base to duplicate the picture. Then sewed them down, machine appliqued, hand appliqued, used whatever technique they wanted to to accomplish the look they were looking for. The piece was made 1/2" bigger than the actual picture on each side to account for differences and to help line up each piece. Does this help to better understand the process? If not, maybe I can better explain in a separate email.
Mountainquilter-Most of my fabric I buy is usually 2 yards and more at a time. But, at the same time I do have them wrapped around these fabric sheets from Polar Notions. These are the best fabric organizers I have ever seen. Can get a little expensive, depending on how much fabric you have, but as you can see, I like to be organized and it looks so much better than the plastic bin look. I used to have 31 bins in my room and I hated that look. This is so much more attractive.
borntoquilt-Do you live in Mass? I enjoy having people over to sew and have a productive day.
Ethel-I do have room, just not sure my hubby would like that too much :)
Again thank you all for the wonderful compliments.
Sandi
quiltncrazy-Thank you for that wonderful compliment. That was very nice. The picture of my house was down loaded into a program called "the big picture". The program put the picture into 6 slices, like tiles. I handed out those slices to the other participants. They traced the pieces onto a plastic report cover, made templates out of the drawings and cut out pieces of fabric and placed on a muslin base to duplicate the picture. Then sewed them down, machine appliqued, hand appliqued, used whatever technique they wanted to to accomplish the look they were looking for. The piece was made 1/2" bigger than the actual picture on each side to account for differences and to help line up each piece. Does this help to better understand the process? If not, maybe I can better explain in a separate email.
Mountainquilter-Most of my fabric I buy is usually 2 yards and more at a time. But, at the same time I do have them wrapped around these fabric sheets from Polar Notions. These are the best fabric organizers I have ever seen. Can get a little expensive, depending on how much fabric you have, but as you can see, I like to be organized and it looks so much better than the plastic bin look. I used to have 31 bins in my room and I hated that look. This is so much more attractive.
borntoquilt-Do you live in Mass? I enjoy having people over to sew and have a productive day.
Ethel-I do have room, just not sure my hubby would like that too much :)
Again thank you all for the wonderful compliments.
Sandi
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