Little rag quilts!

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12-20-2010, 02:08 PM

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Iluv2quilt

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Gorgeous!! I really like your color schemes on these, nice work!! :thumbup:

12-20-2010, 05:02 PM

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kacy 49

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Love them both. You did good.

12-20-2010, 05:08 PM

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DonnaB

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great looking fabrics, love those rag quilts

12-20-2010, 05:58 PM

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postal packin' mama

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Does the cotton fabric fray nicely without fraying clear to the seamline?
Such beautiful work. Including a story book with each one is so sweet - what a nice, and clever, grandma!

12-20-2010, 06:07 PM

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Jo Belmont

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I'm off to buy my flannel tomorrow. What an inspiration! Yours are by far the best rag quilts I've ever seen. Simply perfect.

Such lucky kiddos.

12-20-2010, 06:42 PM

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mollymct

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Thank you for the nice comments, everyone! You made my day.

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Originally Posted by 1st.spring46

I am sure the children will enjoy them.Your quilts are lovely, like the colour combinations especially the first one.Did you have to use a special tool or something? Are they difficult to make? Thank you for sharing.

I am a beginner in quilting! These were projects 2-4. They are very simple. The most time consuming part was cutting the squares and placing them where I wanted! I really starched my flannel first and the squares in layers of three were easy to sew together--no sliding! I used a $15 pair of Fiskars snips for the seams and they worked perfectly! I snipped as long as an hour and a half at a time and my hand did not hurt.

Someone else asked about the cotton and how it frays--it doesn't fray as rapidly as the flannel, but it is still really cute. It still looks plenty "raggy" with the other layers of flannel. I just couldn't find the colors I wanted in flannel.