Quilts made using vintage machines!
#1601
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Huntsville, AL
Posts: 2,609
Just thought I would let you guys know I do quilt besides collecting and reworking old sewing machines. This is a pattern from a civil war cot quilt that the mothers and wives made for their husbands to take to the war. I just made it smaller for my little niece. Really just utility quilts made out of what ever scraps they had on hand. In the south the ladies could not get fabric for clothes much less quilt fabric[ATTACH=CONFIG]490712[/ATTACH] for the men going to war. Pieced on a singer 66(1913) and quilted on a Davis Vf
#1603
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Huntsville, AL
Posts: 2,609
Rodney a little trick I use is to put all the cut scraps in a bag, shake them up, then reach in and grab one. What ever color comes out is used. No quilt police here. They always come out nice and I don't have to fret on color arrangments.
Thank you Rodney.
Thank you Rodney.
#1604
Banned
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Victorian Sweatshop Forum
Posts: 4,096
Nice quilt Glenn, I like it. Small quilts or table runners are my favorites to make because it's almost instant gratification. I do scrappy the same way, pick pieces from a bag. I'm quilting a large lap quilt right now with the pink Selectomatic that I did in 30s repros with a flannel back. One more border to quilt then I can bind it. I have to wash it before I can photograph it because I caught one of the cats sleeping on it.
Cari
Cari
#1606
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Huntsville, AL
Posts: 2,609
Nice quilt Glenn, I like it. Small quilts or table runners are my favorites to make because it's almost instant gratification. I do scrappy the same way, pick pieces from a bag. I'm quilting a large lap quilt right now with the pink Selectomatic that I did in 30s repros with a flannel back. One more border to quilt then I can bind it. I have to wash it before I can photograph it because I caught one of the cats sleeping on it.
Cari
Cari
Skip
#1609
Super Member
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Huntsville, AL
Posts: 2,609
Thank you Trish and guys. I had fun with this one. I like the grab bag technique. I am not much on scrappy quilts either but when I do make them I always use the grab bag thing. I don't have to think about color placement and at my age less thinking is sometimes a good thing.
Skip
Skip
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
yobrosew
For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
15
12-10-2014 10:18 PM
soman2
For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
3
12-08-2014 07:08 AM
soman2
For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
14
08-30-2014 08:02 PM
SingerSewer
Main
10
06-22-2013 06:24 AM
J Miller
For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
15
03-01-2013 06:34 PM