A very new quilter needs advice
10-21-2013, 07:44 AM
#21
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Here's a super easy, super quick pattern - Rail Fence. You can do all sorts of things with it and totally change the look, just by the color selection and arrangement of the blocks. Using two colors and altering the proportions a bit, you can create a woven look. Here's a top, I finished last week. The seams aren't yet ironed, so it looks a bit puckering because the seams are sticking up, on the underside. I generally don't iron those last seams, until I'm ready to sandwich the quilt.
I'm trying to finish off a bunch of quilts, for Christmas giving. This pattern is soooo fast and easy, yet still looks as if one put time into it.
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Other Rail Fence examples -
https://www.google.com/search?q=rail...g&ved=0CE0QsAQ
I'm trying to finish off a bunch of quilts, for Christmas giving. This pattern is soooo fast and easy, yet still looks as if one put time into it.
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Other Rail Fence examples -
https://www.google.com/search?q=rail...g&ved=0CE0QsAQ
10-21-2013, 08:03 AM
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Welcome to the board. IMHO (In My Humble Opinion) you are absolutely starting the right way with a sampler quilt where each block builds on the skills learned in the previous. By doing a sampler you will learn so many techniques essential to quilt making that no pattern will scare you in the future. Set in Y seam no problem, curve, you will laugh in the face of curves, template blocks and rotary cutting shortcut... you will have those down as well. It seems way too many people start out with easy patterns but then are too afraid to try more complex ones. I started with a sampler and I am always thrilled to hear other newbies starting the same way. I also hand quilted mine but now I am a LA quilter. Here is a link to a photo I posted of my very first quilt. http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...t-t107423.html
I think a two color sampler will work as well as black/white and red. Both would be stunning. Here is a google search I did of black white and red sampler quilts and it returned one done in just red and cream. So 2 color quilts totally work and ones that were made a century ago are prized heirlooms now.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&....0.jGSpjF18mj4
I think a two color sampler will work as well as black/white and red. Both would be stunning. Here is a google search I did of black white and red sampler quilts and it returned one done in just red and cream. So 2 color quilts totally work and ones that were made a century ago are prized heirlooms now.
https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&....0.jGSpjF18mj4
10-22-2013, 06:29 AM
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"thank you so much great tips - I have a book I will be working from for a sampler quilt - the blocks get more challenging thoughout the book building on skills learn in previous blocks - so I will make them all and use the ones I want for the quilt and make cushions out of others - I will make up to 40 blocks so plenty to choose my favourites from"
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