BYC SEWING/QUILTING CLUB

[Kassaundra]

Oh and you can sure see that Katie has your genes, she is a shrink dink of you.

 

[sunflour]

Farmgirl you have some very lucky kids in your family! They are all wonderful quilts, and the Crane quilt especially appealed to me. Don't even get me started about paper piecing.....grrrr, I just can't do it. But that doesn't mean I can't admire the quilts made using it. Dragonflies out of neckties? That sounds fantastic!

Katie was over this weekend and was she ever a busy little bee! She got her strips cut into squares, then made her blocks yesterday. Today she sewed her blocks into rows and got her borders put on. She was already to layer and get to quilting, but since I never expected an 8 year old to stick to it so firmly and get so much done it two weekends, I had to beg off. I need to cut some batting and backing for her and hadn't done that yet. She wants to learn hand quilting, so that's what she's going to do on this quilt. She got the top done so fast that we have plenty of time before Christmas.


Katie and a finished block from the quilt she's making for her baby sister.


All of those blocks becoming rows....


Sewing on the borders. She had the worst time understanding why we measure the quilt top down the middle to get the size we needed to cut the borders. I ran out of ways to explain it, so I finally told her that the Quilt Fairies make the borders into bad ruffles if we measure the exact outside edges.


Her finished quilt top.

Yayyyy for another generation of quilters! She's already planning her next one!

thanks for sharing…so sweet. I started sewing at 10…and still love it. and bet she will sew forever.

It is so sad, but sewing is becoming a lost art.

 

[Kassaundra]

Working on a wall hanging for a swap, got the design finished today, next is assembling and quilting

 

[Blooie]

That's beautiful! I wish I could applique perfect circles like that. Mine always look a little wonky. What is that background fabric? It looks so shiny and soft in the picture - or is that the play of light on it? Love it!

 

[Kassaundra]

That's beautiful! I wish I could applique perfect circles like that. Mine always look a little wonky. What is that background fabric? It looks so shiny and soft in the picture - or is that the play of light on it? Love it!

Thanks, both fabrics are not quilting cotton, they are a silky, the background is a thicker silky, one I fell in love with when I got it, but haven't found the right project until now. But I have more left of it. The magenta is a lighter weight textured silk kinda fabric, it has raised threads where some parts of the thread woven to make the fabric were thicker then others, and neither fabric have a true "shine" but more of a luster.

I tried several methods for the circles but got the best results cutting as perfect a circle as I could in cardboard (like the back of a paper pad) then cut my fabric in a square about an inch bigger then the circle, marked the circle, basted a line of thread outside the marked circle put the cardboard piece in the center and drew the basting thread tight around it, while holding tension on the thread made sure all edges were smooth and rounded then pressed, after pressing both sides allowing to cool removing the cardboard circle, then machine applique VERY VERY SLOWLY. Oh it didn't seem to matter if I removed the basting thread or not, actually leaving it in the circle laid flatter.

 

[Kassaundra]

A PP block I've been working on

 

[sunflour]

A PP block I've been working on

I love the colors you have selected. Bright, cheery, fun!

 

[speckledhen]

Aw, how sweet! Katie did great quilting on her machine. I've quilted for over 30 years and I cannot machine quilt! I can only hand quilt, just can't make a machine not skip stitches or behave to do it by machine. But, I am a good hand quilter, albeit much slower now that I'm cursed with carpal tunnel.

We need to teach a new generation the old crafts! WTG, Katie!


Working on this Tennessee Waltz variation now. Made a traditional one previously in blues and browns, which was sold. This short video clip tells the story of my Tennessee Waltz "Fortitude" quilt. I have quilted a little more than three blocks of it, but it will be slow going in the super cold weather.

Any suggestions for a pattern for a lap or daybed size quilt using these fabrics? I could do another TN Waltz quilt, but I want to do something different to showcase the main rooster fabric (I have 3 yds of that). I don't want the roosters to "disappear" into the quilt, if you know what I mean.



Thinking of using the purple as another color to spice it up.

 

[speckledhen]

I am participating in the underground railroad quilt swap, and I am thinking about doing carpenters wheel, I drafted a foundation paper pieced pattern for it, and just completed the test run tonight

I love the Carpenter's Wheel pattern. I did this medallion quilt featuring that block:

 

[cutechick53]

Hi, what do you think the best (and cheap) way to begin quilting? My local fabric and craft store doesn't have beginners kits. Should I use felt or something like that? Tips are much appreciated as I've just begun sowing this summer.