What was your most challenging quilting project to date...
05-27-2015, 05:32 AM
#32
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Mine was (don't laugh!) a log cabin quilt made with solid fabrics, with finished 1 1/2 inch strips. I think what happened was I didn't cut the strips on the straight grain of fabric. So as I added strips the blocks were "bowed". So I kept trimming the block edges to even them off. Anyway, it was a big fat mess after I sewed them together. I ended up giving it to charity.
I am not laughing! I hate log cabin blocks for just the experience you have had. So...I don't make them. I don't have to!
My challenge to myself was to tackle fusible applique in 2014. I find that I am enjoying it! Hand applique? Nope! I don't care for hand work.
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05-27-2015, 06:23 AM
#33
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Mine is the Glacier Star quilt that I have just completed the top. It is a Quiltworx pattern. I loved making it and must admit that it has turned out quite well. I am working on a Farmer's Wife too. Hope to have it done in the summer.
05-27-2015, 06:45 AM
#34
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I have a couple of projects that I have set aside due to difficulties with the pattern or things not going together as I thought they would have. However, there are two that I really liked that I have had difficulties with, Neither pattern has been finished but I hope to complete them in my lifetime.
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This is the center of the one I am working on
The one in my avatar is the one completed by a friend
The second one is a scrappy. I have the scrappy blocks done,
however it is the sashing I have been having trouble with. First
I ran out of the red fabric. When I located the fabric with the
help of MissingFabrics.com, I was out of the mood or drive to
complete it.
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It has a small nine patch
connecting each sashing
between blocks
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This is the center of the one I am working on
The one in my avatar is the one completed by a friend
The second one is a scrappy. I have the scrappy blocks done,
however it is the sashing I have been having trouble with. First
I ran out of the red fabric. When I located the fabric with the
help of MissingFabrics.com, I was out of the mood or drive to
complete it.
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It has a small nine patch
connecting each sashing
between blocks
05-27-2015, 09:42 AM
#35
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Location: Central Willamette Valley, Oregon, USA
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My biggest challenge quilt was the giant Dresden plate I made as medallion quilt. I am now a qualified expert in fixing "volcanoes"! Lol! It did teach me how to be sure all of my seams are 1/4", and that when the pattern says "sew in this direction" there is a very good reason! I will make others, but now if they "volcano" I can fix it quickly. The first photo shows the complete quilt, and the second photo shows the colors better. This fan has forty blades, so lots of little seams to adjust....
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05-27-2015, 11:38 AM
#36
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They were fabrics I collected. By the time I finished the quilt I swear some of them were antiques! I have one row left over and it hangs on my bulletin board in my sewing room.
05-28-2015, 03:46 AM
#39
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Location: Florida
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What a fun question! I don't even remember the name of the quilt that was my most difficult. I do remember trying to work on a quilt from a F&P magazine that was all bits and pieces and didn't come together in blocks till the very end. I was forever getting the pieces mixed up. But that was a beginner mistake. I think I donated the end quilt, I was so frustrated with it. There was frustration in every stitch.
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