Need help with charity grab bag I got...please!
05-23-2011, 06:47 AM
#41
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Here's a link to Log Cabin instructions. Use your 2" strips and follow the sewing instructions until your blocks are about 12". You really can't go wrong. Where the instructions say 1 1/2", just change to 2".
http://www.quilt.com/Blocks/LogCabin/LogCabin.html
http://www.quilt.com/Blocks/LogCabin/LogCabin.html
05-23-2011, 06:48 AM
#42
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Originally Posted by ube quilting
Why not try a strip piecied quilt. If you do a search you will find many examples and they are quite charming. Good luck, post your choice so we can watch this magic happen!
SEWNSEWR2 hsa a great example !
SEWNSEWR2 hsa a great example !
05-23-2011, 07:01 AM
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Originally Posted by Dina
Our guild is creating charity quilts (though we call them comfort quilts) from grab bags as our challenge for the next three months. I brought home two bags, and I was able to make a pretty good quilt out of the first bag of fabric I got, but this second bag has me stumped.
It has 2 inch strips and 4 inch strips...well, most of them are strips. Some are just 8 inches long. It's obvious the committee member just grabbed a handful of these and stuck them in a bag.
Does anyone have any ideas for me on how to use these to make a quilt? I am fairly new to quilting, less than 2 years, though I have been sewing all my life. We can add our own fabric if we want to. I am quite willing to do that...but first I need to figure out what to do.
The quilts will be for family members whose homes burned in the wild fires several weeks ago. We have 50 some people who will receive our quilts, adults and kids.
These strips don't match at all, so I guess a scrappy quilt of some sort is in order. I downloaded one called a Wickedly Easy Quilt, but it starts with fat quarters and uses strips of 4 1/2 and 2 1/2. I can't seem to wrap my brain around how to make it work for me.
So, does anyone has an idea for me....? I think a more experienced quilter should have got this bag. :(
It has 2 inch strips and 4 inch strips...well, most of them are strips. Some are just 8 inches long. It's obvious the committee member just grabbed a handful of these and stuck them in a bag.
Does anyone have any ideas for me on how to use these to make a quilt? I am fairly new to quilting, less than 2 years, though I have been sewing all my life. We can add our own fabric if we want to. I am quite willing to do that...but first I need to figure out what to do.
The quilts will be for family members whose homes burned in the wild fires several weeks ago. We have 50 some people who will receive our quilts, adults and kids.
These strips don't match at all, so I guess a scrappy quilt of some sort is in order. I downloaded one called a Wickedly Easy Quilt, but it starts with fat quarters and uses strips of 4 1/2 and 2 1/2. I can't seem to wrap my brain around how to make it work for me.
So, does anyone has an idea for me....? I think a more experienced quilter should have got this bag. :(
05-23-2011, 07:12 AM
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how many strips of this do you have??? i always just stitch them the long way... til' i use em' up... then cut whatever squares i want.. alternate direction,,, maybe sash,,, don't think so much,,, just do it... (i sometimes get a solid "sheet" in a color that works with all and have fun!!!!!
05-23-2011, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Dina
Our guild is creating charity quilts (though we call them comfort quilts) from grab bags as our challenge for the next three months. I brought home two bags, and I was able to make a pretty good quilt out of the first bag of fabric I got, but this second bag has me stumped.
It has 2 inch strips and 4 inch strips...well, most of them are strips. Some are just 8 inches long. It's obvious the committee member just grabbed a handful of these and stuck them in a bag.
Does anyone have any ideas for me on how to use these to make a quilt? I am fairly new to quilting, less than 2 years, though I have been sewing all my life. We can add our own fabric if we want to. I am quite willing to do that...but first I need to figure out what to do.
The quilts will be for family members whose homes burned in the wild fires several weeks ago. We have 50 some people who will receive our quilts, adults and kids.
These strips don't match at all, so I guess a scrappy quilt of some sort is in order. I downloaded one called a Wickedly Easy Quilt, but it starts with fat quarters and uses strips of 4 1/2 and 2 1/2. I can't seem to wrap my brain around how to make it work for me.
So, does anyone has an idea for me....? I think a more experienced quilter should have got this bag. :(
It has 2 inch strips and 4 inch strips...well, most of them are strips. Some are just 8 inches long. It's obvious the committee member just grabbed a handful of these and stuck them in a bag.
Does anyone have any ideas for me on how to use these to make a quilt? I am fairly new to quilting, less than 2 years, though I have been sewing all my life. We can add our own fabric if we want to. I am quite willing to do that...but first I need to figure out what to do.
The quilts will be for family members whose homes burned in the wild fires several weeks ago. We have 50 some people who will receive our quilts, adults and kids.
These strips don't match at all, so I guess a scrappy quilt of some sort is in order. I downloaded one called a Wickedly Easy Quilt, but it starts with fat quarters and uses strips of 4 1/2 and 2 1/2. I can't seem to wrap my brain around how to make it work for me.
So, does anyone has an idea for me....? I think a more experienced quilter should have got this bag. :(
that's what I did here w/ leftovers from other quilts-
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