Grrr, Wanting Something for Nothing & No Appreciation for Fine Hand Quilting....A Rare Speckledhen

[speckledhen]

please post the beautiful log cabin quilt pic so others can see and appreciate work.

Sure. I think this would look very nice in your colors. Being made with strips, I may have more in my scrap totes to add to the fabrics I bought today, too. I have them basically organized by color so shouldn't be hard to check that tomorrow.

 

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Not a quilt, exactly, but I made us a new cellphone cover. I think it's better than the crocheted one. It's lined with flannel and has batting, but lays flatter than the other I made.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

What does your machine quilter look like? Is it bigger than a sewing machine? How does it work? Do you move the fabric or does part of the machine move?

 

[speckledhen]

What does your machine quilter look like? Is it bigger than a sewing machine? How does it work? Do you move the fabric or does part of the machine move?

It's not a quilter, per se, just a mechanical straight stitch machine that can do 1500 stitches per minute, only one stitch, with a 9" throat space, no computer. It's all me, one step above hand quilting, which is why I rarely do big bed quilts. I'ts hard to push the bulk through the machine and have control at the same time when you do a big quilt. Smaller stuff is much easier. But, this is a really good machine. When I quilt, I have to change the foot, pressure on the pressure foot, lower the feed dogs and change the stitch length to zero.
Here is Rhonda, as in "help me, Rhonda" (Beach Boys):

 

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Hi, folks. After re-posting my breakdown of the cost of making a quilt on our Blue Roo Creations web page, a dear lady I know, Mrs. Suzanne Shultz, posted this beautifully worded reply. With her permission, I am posting it here. Could not have said it better myself:



Quote: THANK YOU, SUZANNE!

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Hi, folks. After re-posting my breakdown of the cost of making a quilt on our Blue Roo Creations web page, a dear lady I know, Mrs. Suzanne Shultz, posted this beautifully worded reply. With her permission, I am posting it here. Could not have said it better myself:



 

THANK YOU, SUZANNE!

Beautifully said.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

Look beautiful co-ordinating fabrics

 

[speckledhen]

Look beautiful co-ordinating babrics

I actually bought one of those today, I think, the one that has the Eiffel Tower in teal and rose colors, plus some dots. I have one test block finished and am working on a second one. I hesitate to show folks just one or two blocks, would rather get a few so they could start to form a pattern, would give you a better idea. But, if you want to see the first two, I'll show you when I get #2 assembled.

Teal is a difficult one to hit square on the head, I've found. Many veer toward the lighter aqua or to the darker turquoise, but I think when they're all together, they will be gorgeous. I love the first block I did.

 

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I'm using more rosy pinks than pink-pinks. They vary into a rosy fuchsia at the darkest. And the teals vary from turquoise to light teal, medium teal to aqua. And the two Paris prints have all those colors in them. I think it will be very pretty. I want more teals, though, hard to find right now. Don't want it to veer too much into blue or be too light aqua.

Here are the first two blocks. Now, these two may not be side by side after I make the rest and arrange them all, but this is the way the top two are usually turned/started in the barn raising arrangement in the log cabin. It's going to be gorgeous. I like these colors a lot together. It's hard to see with just two, but the overall "smash-up" will come together and you'll love it, I bet. I already know I will! I just need to find a few more fabrics in these color families and I have time. This quilt will take about 48 +/- blocks or so, depending on how the pattern works out.

 

[ApiaryandAviary]

I'm using more rosy pinks than pink-pinks. They vary into a rosy fuchsia at the darkest. And the teals vary from turquoise to light teal, medium teal to aqua. And the two Paris prints have all those colors in them. I think it will be very pretty. I want more teals, though, hard to find right now. Don't want it to veer too much into blue or be too light aqua. Here are the first two blocks. Now, these two may not be side by side after I make the rest and arrange them all, but this is the way the top two are usually turned/started in the barn raising arrangement in the log cabin. It's going to be gorgeous. I like these colors a lot together. It's hard to see with just two, but the overall "smash-up" will come together and you'll love it, I bet. I already know I will! I just need to find a few more fabrics in these color families and I have time. This quilt will take about 48 +/- blocks or so, depending on how the pattern works out.

Oh my it's perfect and I love the heart color for the home fires buring. My husband's grandmother made a log cabin quilt and she used different shades of reds in the center for the home of the heart fireplace burning. I loved that. You read me perfectly.