Ongoing Quilt Projects, Continued from the "No Appreciation...." Thread

[speckledhen]

Actually, I love it!

It is pretty wild, but I agree that it's rather pretty. I've just never seen a line of fabrics that had so much going on! It almost can hurt your eyes! But that block is one I originally knew as primitive hearts, a block I really love and have made so many times. The last time was this quilt for one of my new grandnieces. Maybe I'll really get into those busy prints and do this again, but with that sort of mood in the video. I can't afford her fabrics, probably. I don't buy pricey stuff and I don't think Thousands of Bolts has Tula Pink, but maybe I can substitute.

 

[speckledhen]

I've gotten much further along on this sunny Carpenter's Star quilt, but that leaf motif was not as easy as I thought. I did that round, then a dark orange border with a loopy trail all around and had to quit because my room is so dark (storm coming in) and my back is not happy with me right now. Plus, I"m going to have to think on how to quilt the two rows of wandering star blocks at top and bottom without resorting to hand quilting. I have enough of that to do for the center of this quilt. And I have so many projects waiting on this one, two of them already sold.

 

[jeria]

I'll look that up. And I'm glad your neck is getting better! That's no small thing!



https://www.kenssewingcenter.com/janome-artistic-18-aqsd-sit-down-quilting-machine-p-33159.html

I was thinking there may be some used ones out there. Since it is a industrial machine they last a long time and have lots of room for quilting.

 

[speckledhen]

I was thinking there may be some used ones out there. Since it is a industrial machine they last a long time and have lots of room for quilting.

When I save a bit more, I'll definitely look for one of those sit-down quilters used. After all, I got a great deal on my current Brother that way. I love that these come with a table with drop leaf already.

I laughed at the newer Janome Artistic with the computer console-it has a timer so you know when to stop quilting. My back tells me that, LOL!

 

[jeria]

I like some of them, but not most of them. Look at this Tula Pink quilt that Angela Walters is quilting in this video. It's called Boomerang, but it's the Primitive Heart block I've used many times. But the fabrics, oy vey!

I'll have to look her fabrics up. I've been out or the quilting loop for awhile and avoiding the quilt shops etc otherwise I'll spend money on fabric.

 

[jeria]

I laughed at the newer Janome Artistic with the computer console-it has a timer so you know when to stop quilting. My back tells me that, LOL![/QUOTE]

Mine does also

 

[User395221]

I like those Tula Pink fabrics. Local prices $5.50-6.50 for a 25cm strip, would work out quite expensive to do a quilt, I expect, especially if you wanted a large variety of designs/colours in it....
A far cry from the "making use of worn things" that patchwork started out "back when".
I'd love lots of space and one of those frames to try machine quilting. sigh. I'll just live vicariously through you all.

EDIT: obviously things may be different over there, but have you looked into the tax options for offsetting the costs of your (expensive) equipment against the income from sales?

 

[speckledhen]

I like those Tula Pink fabrics. Local prices $5.50-6.50 for a 25cm strip, would work out quite expensive to do a quilt, I expect, especially if you wanted a large variety of designs/colours in it....
A far cry from the "making use of worn things" that patchwork started out "back when".
I'd love lots of space and one of those frames to try machine quilting. sigh. I'll just live vicariously through you all.

EDIT: obviously things may be different over there, but have you looked into the tax options for offsetting the costs of your (expensive) equipment against the income from sales?

No, I personally have not, because it's not a business, just a hobby. I never actually make money on it. Quilting is a losing proposition the way I do it. What I'm doing, really, is making little tidbits here and there to feed my hobby more. If it was a business, that would take all the fun out of it for me and in a couple of years of having humongous losses on paper, the gov't would not allow me to even say it was a business and would deem it just a hobby officially, with no ability to claim anything. Now, if I started a business and bought a huge computerized machine, I could get Uncle Sam involved, but Uncle Sam has a tendency to take the joy out of everything in this country. I have no place for a long arm machine other than maybe one of the sitdown ones like that Janome Artistic. And I wonder if that would also be problematic because, unless I'm wrong, you cannot piece on those, only quilt? I'd have to have my other machine set up to piece as well.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, this has been trying. I had a hard time deciding what to do with the wandering star blocks, but because they convey motion, I chose a sort of swirl in each section of each block. The swirls are not at all consistent. My back was hurting so badly, the quilt is very stiff at this point and I was having trouble powering it through the throat and keeping control. I un-sewed three or four swirls and re-did them, too, which was a royal pain, but I kept hearing Angela Walter's voice in my head-when you make a mistake, don't stop, keep going and just pretend it's not a mistake, get back on track and sometimes, even "oops" around it until it disappears into the motif. It's hard being a perfectionist and not being all that great at this, but I can't go back to hand quilting everything, I just can't. I like seeing finished quilts, even if they are not perfect.
Just need to do the other row at the other end and run around the last border and I'm ready to bind.

 

[User395221]

The swirls are not at all consistent.

Nor would they be, in nature, if they were moving, each would be different/individual.
You're your only critic. I think it looks fantastic!