Quilts made using vintage machines!
#1392
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Location: Round Rock,Texas
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Jean,
Your Santa quilt is beautiful, so is the quilting.
Cathie,
You can find more wonderful free scrap quilt patterns at : www.quiltville.com This is Bonnie Hunter's website, she makes most of her quilts with vintage electric and treadle machines. The pieces you call sew on/offs , she calls them leaders and enders and eventually she makes wonderful quilts from them. I piece log cabin quilt blocks like that.
My latest quilt top is a Spiderweb/String Star that was pieced on a Singer 301 electric and 2 of my treadles; a 1914 Singer 115 and a 1917 White Rotary.
Sharon in Texas
Your Santa quilt is beautiful, so is the quilting.
Cathie,
You can find more wonderful free scrap quilt patterns at : www.quiltville.com This is Bonnie Hunter's website, she makes most of her quilts with vintage electric and treadle machines. The pieces you call sew on/offs , she calls them leaders and enders and eventually she makes wonderful quilts from them. I piece log cabin quilt blocks like that.
My latest quilt top is a Spiderweb/String Star that was pieced on a Singer 301 electric and 2 of my treadles; a 1914 Singer 115 and a 1917 White Rotary.
Sharon in Texas
#1393
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Michigan
Posts: 3,334
Thanks everyone for your kind, encouraging comments. I find myself using my vintage machines more and more. I just need to try using more different ones rather than using the same ones although the 15-91 is going to be the FMQ go-to machine forever.
I do like that Best Friends quilt that you are working on, Cathie. I would like to know where a pattern is as well. I keep building a bigger scraps pile that I don't get rid of.... I keep thinking I will make a scraps quilt but don't have time to do one. Then, I think maybe I'll give them to someone else but I haven't done that either. The bags get bigger and more full.
Sharon, did you post your Spiderweb quilt? I must have missed it or just forgot (old brains do that pretty often, you know). It sounds really cute.
I do like that Best Friends quilt that you are working on, Cathie. I would like to know where a pattern is as well. I keep building a bigger scraps pile that I don't get rid of.... I keep thinking I will make a scraps quilt but don't have time to do one. Then, I think maybe I'll give them to someone else but I haven't done that either. The bags get bigger and more full.
Sharon, did you post your Spiderweb quilt? I must have missed it or just forgot (old brains do that pretty often, you know). It sounds really cute.
#1394
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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I did an Internet search this AM for the Best Friends quilt pattern. I found it here. http://www.trudiehughes.com/patterns.htm
I guess I could have sat down and worked the pattern out on my own. But I opted out to just buy the pattern.
I guess I could have sat down and worked the pattern out on my own. But I opted out to just buy the pattern.
#1395
Yep that's it Caroline...a friend gave me the pattern several years ago and I do it in starts and stops! LOL
I think if I were to start all over I would use larger pieces...those 1.5x1.5 are so small and if you aren't accurate it really shows up! I am searching for some dark-dark donations on the board a several have volunteered to send me some. Everyone is so nice here.
Sharon- I am very familiar with Bonnie's Quiltville site...I am in the midst of sashing the Pineapple Blossom blocks right now which is one of her free patterns...she is so generous to share so much. I am also doing her mystery right now and got some leftovers to add to my dark dark pieces. Not doing that one on my treadle though I just don't feel as confidant with my seams as I do with my trusty Viking #1 but since it is 20 years old it consider it almost vintage!
If anyone wants to know...
There are 4 patches made from 1.5x1.5 inch squares
Rectangles from 1.5 x2.5 inch pieces
then the alternating blocks are 4.5x4.5 inch squares...
I have been piecing the 4 patches forever and now I am adding rectangles to a bunch so that I can get a few blocks finished to admire all my hard work! Hee hee hee
I think if I were to start all over I would use larger pieces...those 1.5x1.5 are so small and if you aren't accurate it really shows up! I am searching for some dark-dark donations on the board a several have volunteered to send me some. Everyone is so nice here.
Sharon- I am very familiar with Bonnie's Quiltville site...I am in the midst of sashing the Pineapple Blossom blocks right now which is one of her free patterns...she is so generous to share so much. I am also doing her mystery right now and got some leftovers to add to my dark dark pieces. Not doing that one on my treadle though I just don't feel as confidant with my seams as I do with my trusty Viking #1 but since it is 20 years old it consider it almost vintage!
If anyone wants to know...
There are 4 patches made from 1.5x1.5 inch squares
Rectangles from 1.5 x2.5 inch pieces
then the alternating blocks are 4.5x4.5 inch squares...
I have been piecing the 4 patches forever and now I am adding rectangles to a bunch so that I can get a few blocks finished to admire all my hard work! Hee hee hee
#1396
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Sierra Vista, AZ
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I ordered and received Best Friends pattern yesterday, a PDF download. Since I have tons of 2 1/2" squares I have been accumulating for a future charm squares quilt, I am going to larger size blocks. But that will be after I make some test blocks.
#1398
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
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I sewed the blocks on 2 of my treadles, #1 a 1914 Singer 115 and a 1917 White Rotary & a Singer 301. The borders were sewn with a 1976 Pfaff 1222E electric. I'll probably quilt it with a Bernina 930 or the plastic wonder (2009 Husqvarna Viking Sapphire 875).
Sharon
Last edited by purplefiend; 12-19-2013 at 01:00 PM.
#1399
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Location: Round Rock,Texas
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Here's a short video of me sewing some of the blocks while I was watching the American league base ball play offs. I'm using a 1914 Singer 115 treadle.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aWI4rqBJkw
Sharon
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aWI4rqBJkw
Sharon
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