Can't wrap my head around it!!
03-02-2010, 02:46 PM
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Please send me the pattern which is mentioned on the site. I am 73 years old and am just now getting around to trying the quilting. Have been a sewer all my life and love the look of quilts, just hope I live long enough to finish one. Thanks Loads, Joan Beedle
03-02-2010, 04:04 PM
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Oops, that last msg. sprouted wings & took off on its own. Here is the rest.
I hope your being 73 doesn't mean that you're feeling "up in yrs.". I'm 71 but feel 40 or so. LOL.
If you'll write to my address directly, I'll see that you get the pattern.
My address is "[email protected]". I hope anybody else interested will write, too. I hope you paper piece since it's all PP'd.
Pat
I hope your being 73 doesn't mean that you're feeling "up in yrs.". I'm 71 but feel 40 or so. LOL.
If you'll write to my address directly, I'll see that you get the pattern.
My address is "[email protected]". I hope anybody else interested will write, too. I hope you paper piece since it's all PP'd.
Pat
03-02-2010, 05:52 PM
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I also have always had "matching" issues but decided my scraps needed to be sorted and used, so I have just started cutting up my scraps for my first scrappy quilt.
I have decided to compromise by making 9 patch scrappy squares, (picking fabric without scrutiny other than to not use the same fabric in the block twice) alternating with a block of a single co-ordinating fabric.
This seems to make me feel a bit more in control at this stage.
Once I have done enough scrappy blocks (which will take a while between other projects) I may be relaxed enough about them to change my mind about using the co-ordinating fabric.
We shall see! In the meantime I am collecting scrappy quilt patterns for inspiration.
I have decided to compromise by making 9 patch scrappy squares, (picking fabric without scrutiny other than to not use the same fabric in the block twice) alternating with a block of a single co-ordinating fabric.
This seems to make me feel a bit more in control at this stage.
Once I have done enough scrappy blocks (which will take a while between other projects) I may be relaxed enough about them to change my mind about using the co-ordinating fabric.
We shall see! In the meantime I am collecting scrappy quilt patterns for inspiration.
03-03-2010, 03:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Pat G
I,too, have to have things either match or at least make sense when I first look at them. I find that if a quilt has too many diff. colors in it, I just pass it up without studying it to figure out the blocks.
Then I sort of broke my own rule. I started taking sm. discarded pcs. out of the waste basket. Just had a hard time tossing them out. I mean some very teeny pcs. Then I found a paper piecing pattern that was made from those "trash" pcs. of fabric. I've never posted a picture here but I will try. I call it my "Free Quilt". Even the sashing & backing were from my stash & had been there for sev. yrs. So it's all free for me. Pat
Then I sort of broke my own rule. I started taking sm. discarded pcs. out of the waste basket. Just had a hard time tossing them out. I mean some very teeny pcs. Then I found a paper piecing pattern that was made from those "trash" pcs. of fabric. I've never posted a picture here but I will try. I call it my "Free Quilt". Even the sashing & backing were from my stash & had been there for sev. yrs. So it's all free for me. Pat
03-03-2010, 07:24 AM
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Sewcrafty,
Please send me your mailing address via my email address. I'm getting things ready to mail out to others. I don't know any other way to do it since I never did figure out how to scan on here.
[email protected]
The pattern is a 4" pc. You paperpiece 4 pcs. Then sew them together forming a block. That's why I made sure to use the same fabric in the center so it would have a nice center. I'm sending you a closeup of one block so you can see the 4 sections.
Pat
Please send me your mailing address via my email address. I'm getting things ready to mail out to others. I don't know any other way to do it since I never did figure out how to scan on here.
[email protected]
The pattern is a 4" pc. You paperpiece 4 pcs. Then sew them together forming a block. That's why I made sure to use the same fabric in the center so it would have a nice center. I'm sending you a closeup of one block so you can see the 4 sections.
Pat
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