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The Emporia => Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside => Current Projects => Topic started by: LeilaMay on September 02, 2019, 13:02:41 PM
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Went for the simple squares option in the end, and have started work on the pair of quilts for my granddaughters.
Their favourite colours are apparently "pink, purple and sparkly" for the younger, and "turquoise, green and blue" for the older. I haven't used and children's prints, in the hopes the quilts will stay with them until they're grown up.
Today - my least favourite part of the process, pinning the layers together :\ [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
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That is gorgeous @LeilaMay
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That's lovely @LeilaMay !
Choice of colours is perfect!
Jessie
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Lovely
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Beautiful, love the subtle patterns and colours. The squares design is perfect.
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lovely
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Gorgeous!!!!
You are very talented !
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Beautiful! Am envious of your talents! x
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Thank you all for the nice comments :) (but trust me, you don't have to be talented to do squares :snip:)
I find it difficult to work in these colours as they aren't 'my thing' at all, yards of pink backing is making me shudder - but I hope she'll like it, which is the point, right?
On a practical note, I'm never happy with the smoothness of the layers once I've done it (and doing it at ground level s getting beyond me. Does anyone use a paste table or similar and clips, doing it in sections? I've seen it like that on youtube and think it might be my solution in the long term?
Off to the pink variegated thread . . .
Leila :vintage:
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Lovely quilt, @LeilaMay .
Have you seen this? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpmWfZdxGSI)
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On a practical note, I'm never happy with the smoothness of the layers once I've done it (and doing it at ground level s getting beyond me. Does anyone use a paste table or similar and clips, doing it in sections? I've seen it like that on youtube and think it might be my solution in the long term?
Do you mean Quilt As You Go ?
A strip of blocks, sandwiched and quilted then the next strip of blocks sewn to the first strip, a strip of backing sewn to the first strip of backing and a strip of wadding inserted between the two and the second set of strips quilted.
Yes, I've done that - but I crawled around the floor getting the second (and subsequent) strips of wadding in place. You also have to remember to leave at least an inch of the first block unquilted so that you can actually join the strips.
An alternative is to quilt all the strips and then join them together, but that way you have to have sashing strips between the strips of blocks. Sashing is an integral part of some designs but definitely not for other designs.
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Does anyone use a paste table or similar and clips, doing it in sections? I've seen it like that on youtube and think it might be my solution in the long term?
The quilts I make are often longer than my table so as long as I can fit the width of the quilt on the table, I often use clips and pin in sections. I clip the first part of the layers to the table and pin that section. I then unclip that section, roll up the unpinned section and move the whole thing up the table so that about 6" of the pinned section is at the top of the table. I then clip the pinned section and unroll the rest, smoothing the layers as needed, before clipping and pinning that section. I repeat this until I run out of quilt to pin.
I have a large piece of thin mdf that over hangs the edge of the table and I use clothes pegs to clip the layers to this. For smaller quilts (or if I can't be bothered to get out the mdf) I put a cutting board on the table (to protect it from pins) and use the larger size of plant clips (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Plant-Flower-Clips-Supporting-Stems/dp/B003HNW4HO/ref=asc_df_B003HNW4HO/?tag=googshopuk-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=205312686904&hvpos=1o2&hvnetw=g&hvrand=1963087907490186952&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9046551&hvtargid=pla-312566098297&psc=1) to hold the layers to the table.
I think some you tube options show the quilt layers being rolled around pool noodles or pieces of wood to make it easier to move them but my quilts haven't been big enough to need that.
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I just use the kitchen table (5' x 3') and do a section at a time. I don't stretch or anchor anything. I use basting spray on the batting then smooth the backing on to it with my hands. (I have been known to use a rolling pin). I shift it and do the next section and pay particular attention to the bit that was over the edge of the table. I then do the same with the quilt top i.e. spray baste the batting a section at a time and smooth the top onto it. I then add some safety pins round the edge on all 4 sides.
I've never done a humongous quilt probably 64" is the biggest.
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I take the duvet off the kingsize bed and do it on the mattress. 505 spray and then 4 pins, one at each corner
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I either drape and pin over an ironing board, or sometimes my desk and sewing table butt up together and I pin flat.
My quilts are usually baby sized.
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I used basting spray for the first time on my last quilt rather than quilting pins and I’m converted. So much quicker and easier!
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Thank you all for the suggestions.
@StitchinTime - yes that's the idea I might pursue, to cover the dining tabletop and clip. I wondered how folks found it to work - thank you for the input.
Sadly no basting sprays or any other sprays here for that mater - such things, even if they don't have an apparent odour to us - can be lethal to a parrot, so we avoid them all. Better safe than sorry.
Thank you all, have a great stitching day
Leila
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Have you a local quilt group or emporia who will let you baste on their tables Leila ????
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Thank you all for the suggestions.
@StitchinTime - yes that's the idea I might pursue, to cover the dining tabletop and clip. I wondered how folks found it to work - thank you for the input.
Sadly no basting sprays or any other sprays here for that mater - such things, even if they don't have an apparent odour to us - can be lethal to a parrot, so we avoid them all. Better safe than sorry.
Thank you all, have a great stitching day
Leila
My mum has an African Grey so I know what you mean. She sets up a wallpaper table outside and bastes out there with spray (with doors shut and away from room where parrot is). It is of course weather dependent but it works well.
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@LeilaMay ... are you still wanting labels ????
Cos Elvis is smokin' right now !!!!
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I tried using the mattress and pins, but that's been rather a failure, and the secnd quilt is going to be wonkier than I would like :) Re-reading I see Lowena used spray baste when she had the layers on the mattres - now I get what I was doing wrong LOL. Oh well.
I am still seeking very fat clips that might hold the layers on our dining table - it's a much thicker piece of wood that a 'normal' table as it was made by hand by the Beloved, so gorgeous but impractical (don't let him hear me say that).
Anyway the green/turquoise/blue squares are underway, same pattern as the pink one, then I could perhaps get back to my lovely indigo top . . .
Here's the pink one
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I am still seeking very fat clips that might hold the layers on our dining table - it's a much thicker piece of wood that a 'normal' table
@LeilaMay Try searching for "Spring Clamps" on Amazon (other online retailers etc ...) as these are meant for DIY use and are larger than the plant clips I use.
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And here is the turquoise/green/blue one finished - hanging over the rail in the conservatory as it's too wet outside for it to dry. [ You are not allowed to view attachments ] [ You are not allowed to view attachments ]
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My mum has an African Grey so I know what you mean. She sets up a wallpaper table outside and bastes out there with spray (with doors shut and away from room where parrot is). It is of course weather dependent but it works well.
Yes, folks who don't keep parrots have no idea of the vast number of products that give of fumes toxic to birds :(
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That is very subtle (in a most excellent way) and Im loving the backing ... MQ ???
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Yes, folks who don't keep parrots have no idea of the vast number of products that give of fumes toxic to birds :(
Ive got a Panama Amazon parrot and definitely agree with you on that, no fly spray, no teflon coated pans, no paint or any other decorating fumes and a whole host of other no pong or chemical smells too long to list
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Those quilts are gorgeous and I do so admire you and anyone else who can quilt. Learning was on my to do list when I retired but family issues are keeping me so busy I haven't had time, in fact the last few months have seen me reduced to just repairing dog toys
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@Surest1tch the mug rugs would have been ideal for you to get started. Tiny, quick and good fun too. I think most people tried out new-to-them techniques, I certainly did, and they are not judged, just loved and appreciated.
Maybe you would think about the next swap? or alongathon??? :)