Encouragement for New Hand Quilters! My VERY First Quilted Item (humiliating myself here, LOL)

[seminolewind]

Wow! That's quite a bed runner! I love the color combo.

 

[speckledhen]

Thanks, Karen. Been working on this and piecing the log cabin blocks. I have this much done so far (not in the final order, exactly-just stuck them up there so Ellie could see how the design forms by placement of red and green sides)

 

[tiki244]

That is beautiful Speckledhen. Also the bed runner and the quilt on the bed.

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you! I designed and pieced that quilt on the bed, then kathyinmo quilted it on her commercial machine for me.

 

[seminolewind]

KATHY HAS A COMMERCIAL MACHINE??????

Kathy, do you finish half done quilts? As a paid service?

 

[speckledhen]

Kathy has a very nice commercial machine. It wouldn't fit in my house, I'm sure.

 

[seminolewind]

Okay, the big kind. I hope she does machine quilting .

 

[speckledhen]

The log cabin would seem to be a very easy quilt to make. Just cut all same size strips and attach with 1/4" seam allowances, right? Well, sometimes, my blocks were coming out off sizes. No idea why, but I was having to trim them up to make them square. I found this little gem on someone's blog, an amazingly easy way to piece the log cabin block that seems to come out much more exact and square; this particular tutorial is called the "easy peasy log cabin". Super simple and I've been using it with the last 20 blocks or so. It really works! And you end up finishing a bunch all at once rather than one at a time, so it seems to go much, much faster, too.

http://stitchesinplay.typepad.com/stitches_in_play/2009/06/easypeasy-log-cabin-tutorial.html


NanaKat, this would be a great one for your other thread.

 

[NanaKat]

Thank you Cynthia...will post it there.