This quilt is darling. I had never thought of putting different sized blocks in a crazy-quilt type quilt. Did you lay all the pieces out on a design wall first, then sew the pieces together?
This quilt is darling. I had never thought of putting different sized blocks in a crazy-quilt type quilt. Did you lay all the pieces out on a design wall first, then sew the pieces together?
When I wanted to learn to quilt I started from totally clueless and sought no help from a live human being. After considerable pondering, I decided to pin fabrics down to a piece of muslin and then tucked stuff under and folded stuff over and sewed with matching thread so my stitches wouldn't show and embellished with varigated threads so my decorative stitches would show and bits and pieces of ribbons and lace as well as buttons and appliques. I thought I was pretty smart and so did most of the friends I had, all of who were not quilters and thought I was awesome. However as I joined the real quilting community and read some I discovered I had pretty much invented my own version of foundation piecing. LOL. I was not so innovative as I thought. I just cut a big piece of muslin and then started adding fabrics with straight pins. Then I have tons of embellishments from hundreds of scrap bag purchases and I slap them on. When I am trying to help someone who really wants to learn how (some folks are made nausea just looking at the jumbled up fabrics) and they can't decide where to place a fabric I tell them just to try out different ones next to each other and let them talk to you. It's something you like or you don't. But the ones on a theme are pretty easy, like the duckies or for my gd horses or one purchased by someone with cows are particularly fun. I have done butterflies, spring pastels, Christmas, etc. Any size or shape works. Such fun !!!
04-11-2011, 11:28 PM
