Strip Quilting
10-07-2011, 03:46 PM
#44
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I use any ole fabric as foundation blocks, cut strips on the straight, and trim to size after they are pieced. Used newspaper once, it took forever to get it off and there were bits of newspaper turning up in corners and under furniture for weeks.
My point, if it works for you, do it.
My point, if it works for you, do it.
10-07-2011, 03:50 PM
#45
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Originally Posted by GoBama
I am a newbie--only been quilting a year--and I wanted to make a strip quilt. I cut the strips with the grain and of course when I pieced the blocks, the strips were on the diagonal. Due to my lack of foresight, that didn't become obvious until I was well underway. It is well basted and I'm hand quilting in a meander, so I'm not worried about stretching. However, when I took a block to the store to buy backing material, a lady who quilts looked at it and seemed horrified that I had done it that way. So embarrasing! If I should ever do this again, how should I cut the strips? Help please!
GoBama
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REMEMBER, there are no Quilt Police....they might they they are deputies but the are not real !
10-07-2011, 07:27 PM
#46
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You are fine!!! Just research strip quilts on line. There's also a great Yahoo Group site you can join for free called Heartstrings. Wonderful string quilts. Generally they are pieced on a white or muslin backing fabric or phone book pages to stabilize them. There are even QAYG (quilt as you go) instructions so that each square is quilted as you strip piece, so once you join the blocks all your quilting is done! Haven't tried it yet. We all run into the self important Quilt Police sooner or later. Hang in there!
10-07-2011, 08:15 PM
#47
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maybe the lady was not passing judgement, but was more horrified due to being scared to do it that way, because maybe she tried and it did not work. (always different ways to look at things)
She should have commented, said something, anything, so you would know what the look meant.
I am new to quilting, and I don't really think there is a right way or wrong way (other than make sure right sides together LOL, made that mistake already)
I am starting to work on a crumb block, showed mother in law and she was amazed at the tiny pieces in it LOL
Looking forward to seeing your quilt
She should have commented, said something, anything, so you would know what the look meant.
I am new to quilting, and I don't really think there is a right way or wrong way (other than make sure right sides together LOL, made that mistake already)
I am starting to work on a crumb block, showed mother in law and she was amazed at the tiny pieces in it LOL
Looking forward to seeing your quilt
10-07-2011, 08:21 PM
#49
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*looks around cautiously*
I best be sure to stay on the right side of the seam, each back on the foot pedal, and not drink and sew, else the quilt police will get me.
hmm wonder what they use for a breathalyzer... thread a needle test... hehe
I best be sure to stay on the right side of the seam, each back on the foot pedal, and not drink and sew, else the quilt police will get me.
hmm wonder what they use for a breathalyzer... thread a needle test... hehe
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