- Re:Quit as you go , reversible - 2007-10-13 14:30:34-04
Chris
This is great info.... thanks for posting.
Saturday, October 13, 2007
Re:Quit as you go , reversible
Re:Quit as you go , reversible
- Re:Quit as you go , reversible - 2007-10-13 12:54:33-04
Thank you for the new sites Chris, will certainly look them up.
Helena
Friday, October 12, 2007
Re:Quit as you go , reversible
- Re:Quit as you go , reversible - 2007-10-12 13:45:50-04
Chris, these are great sites. Thank you for posted them.
Re:Quit as you go , reversible
- Re:Quit as you go , reversible - 2007-10-12 10:18:44-04
Hello,
In all honesty you can make any quilt pattern you like as a reversible quilt. Your quilt top can be one pattern, and the back another. That will make it reversible. (Although I usually try to tie in something to the front, like a matching print, color or design)This makes it have some continuity.
As for quilt as you go, that is a method of quilting each block then joining them together. During this process you have the top, batting and the backing sandwich made for each block, you quilt it, then you join them. Instead of creating the blocks, adding sashing and borders, then making the quilt sandwich and finally quilting the top.
Here is a website that explains it for you. http://www.secretsof.com/content/624
Here is another one http://www.quilterscache.com/H/howtoquiltoneatatime.html
Hope this helps!Post edited by: QuiltingAndSewMuchMore, at: 2007/10/12 15:19
Quit as you go , reversible
- Quit as you go , reversible - 2007-10-12 09:31:10-04
Hello
Is making a reversible quilt or quilt as you go quilt (also called) the same method as doing the rag quilt but you don't cut the fabric or do wrong sides together. Do you know of any patterns for a reversible quilt? easy ones. thank you
Re:My First Quilt
- Re:My First Quilt - 2007-10-11 18:04:35-04
How Adorable! !!!! She is a cutie with a capital C . I have to ask did mum have heart burn with all that hair. I had a lot when I was having Caroline. She had the most hair put of my four and the only one I had heartburn with.
Cheers
Sis
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Re:My First Quilt
- Re:My First Quilt - 2007-10-11 04:13:56-04
Very nice quilt. Love the colors and your granddaughter is beautiful. Congratulations.
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-11 03:18:32-04
If you feel that your stitches on the back aren't very good, make practice pieces into pillows. This a good way to use machine quilted practice pieces too.
Lap quilts can be backed with fleece (skipping the batting) and if you choose a backing to match your thread, the stitching won't show much.
A quilt backing that is a small busy print will also hide the stitches.
We all have to start somewhere and that is at the beginning. Have fun.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-10 06:45:27-04
Hi She,
I'm new at quilting as well. I brought a walking foot, as well as a quilting foot, for my machine, still practising, but getting the feel each time I use the machine.
I've only done a few hand pieces and found that so long as your stitches and tension were uniform, it looked pretty darn good.
Coats carry both a machine quilting, and a hand quilting 100% mercerized cotton.
But like the other's before me, have fun, only you notice your mistakes.
Good luck and keep on quilting.
Helena
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-10 01:08:02-04
I agree with all the previous comments,
it is not worth taking out that stitch,
it will not be seen, the finished quilt
is your own creation.
If our quilts were perfect, they would not be enjoyed, but locked up in a vault priceless.
Bye now Jo
Tuesday, October 09, 2007
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-09 07:09:16-04
Well, I have very little to add, but want to encourage you to keep on trying and have fun with what you are doing. Practice makes better if not perfect so do some more and have a good time figuring out what your favorite style is. I rock my needle but have found many are not able to figure that out. You might feel more comfortable with trying to use samples to learn on. For classes I suggest each student make about 6 12 or 14 inch squares to use for practice on each lesson.My fist hand quilting was done the same way.I am only learning to machine quilt in terms of free motion, but have made maybe 25 quilts on the machine. I have hand quilted many things but only two full sized quilts, both are queen size. I should take photos and post them even though one is not complete as yet. I hope for some cold weather this winter to finish it. Practice and make sure to have fun with it.
Tennye
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-09 08:16:46-04
looks like you got some great advice here already, but if you would like to learn a bit more about machine quilting there is a great class over at http://www.quiltingweekly.com which might be of some help to you. The class is called quilting 101 and it even includes some videos to get you started.
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-09 07:36:23-04
1. Quilting thread usually is cotton glazed, therefore it is stronger and goes through the fabric easier. My personal preferance is YLI hand quilting thread, but it is for hand quilting only, and cannot be used on the machine. If you are asking about machine quilting, I don't know, don't do it myself.
2. Usually the top of the quilt is what people see, but if your stitches are even it doesn't matter how big or small they are, and if the thread matches the fabric then no one will see the actual stitches, and it only takes practice to make them even. I only hand quilt and if I'm satisfied, I don't care about the other person, I have found that others are usually impressed just because it is hand done. Chances are you are ot going to have another professional quilter looking at it anyway. Relax and enjoy doing it!!!
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-09 02:59:58-04
Hi Ladies and thanks for the advice.....here is another one for you all - is there a difference between good quality cotton thread and quilting thread?
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-09 02:19:29-04
Unless the quilt is in a show, you are the only one who will look that close. Instead of trying for tiny stitches , try for even sized. But I am not even managing that on my quilt. the section I'm working on now requires me to get close without my glasses to see. I don' beleive anyone else is going to look that close! The thread blends in too much.
Your quilting will improve with practice. My problem now is that I haven't done hand quilting since last Dec.Post edited by: kquilts, at: 2007/10/09 07:44
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-09 02:00:51-04
Hi She, The comments from these ladies has been inspiring and cant be bettered. So I will just agree with what they say. Everyone of us who hand quilt did our first quilt once, and we were probably thinking the same thing. Dont let your stitching worry you. It gets more comfortable with practice. Dont worry too much about the size of stitches either. Some quilts on display have such tiny stitches. That is not learnt in a day, or more often than not in a quilting lifetime. And it is not that important. Just go for it, enjoy yourself, have fun with it. If your stitches are peculiar to you then it is your own unique style.
It will be good. Marilyn
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-08 17:01:03-04
As an addendum to all the other posts, who are the quilts for? I've found that you see more mistakes than anyone. all they see is the colours / pattern / pretty material etc. I've now learned NOT to point out the mistakes and say is.....really noticeable? But to spread it out and say well, what do you think? 99% of the time nobody else has noticed what to me seemed to be glaring mistakes. If you're happy thats all that matters (and any recipients)
Go for it -just quilt. If they don't like it their loss, give it to someone who will appreciate it.
Joy
Monday, October 08, 2007
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-08 11:52:39-04
Hi she, I too was a bit concerned about the underside of my quilts when I hand quilted. (I do not quilt like the pro's) I stab quilt and it can look untidy underneath if you don't concentrate a little. The needle has to go in at a right angle and come up again at a right angle. After much practice I have now got it looking good. (well I think it looks good!!)
I think the whole thing is that we must practice whatever style we do, machine I have not mastered but have purchased a Walking Foot which has made a huge difference to quilting in the ditch.
I also do not pin, I use basting spray which sticks the whole area and I put the quilt in my hoop tight so have no puckers when hand quilting. Works for me. You can google stab quilting and it gives you the information on this style. I used to think it was the wrong way but apparently lots of people cannot master the other way either because of arthritus etc.
Remember, I read somewhere that The first Rule of quilting is that there are no Rules.
Re:help me please.....
- Re:help me please..... - 2007-10-08 12:00:37-04
Well, hey, you asked so here goes! Amen to Joyce's comments! The first rule is there are no rules! Just quilt. Have fun. There are no quilting police coming to your doorstep, I promise
help me please.....
- help me please..... - 2007-10-08 07:24:12-04
Ok Ladies....i need help please.
so far i have only worked patchwork quilts - they dont need quilting as such....now i have started what was a tablecloth but has turned into a throw for my conservatory. have made the cloth into squares - done the sandwich - used safety pins to hold fabrics together - started up my sewing machine got into serious trouble and decided i would hand quilt instead. i am such a coward. anyway does the stitching have to be perfect on one or both sides of the quilt? or as my sewing is'nt actually very neat - peculiar to me - well does it really matter or am i missing something......she
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