I know several people have made these but as the search facility is a bit hit and miss** unless there is a precise title available I thought I'd try and gather information all in one place.
Having never seen one in real life, I bought and downloaded a simple pattern just to get me started with every intention of 'doing my own thing'. I understand that I need to make blocks and have made one so far!!
I'm unhappy that the leaning books don't have right-angled bottoms
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and I've solved that one. Above is not my block.
However, I'd like to know:
1) if I need to make all the blocks then piece them together before sandwiching - it doesn't seem to tell me on the instructions. Blocks will all be the same height but not necessarily the same width though I know what the total width needs to be. I'm wondering about QAYG (quilt as you go) in strips using the bookshelves as sashing.
2) how I embroider titles on the spines of some books. Elvistoo is keen to help! Presumably I use backing 'stuff' but I'm still not confident with the thickness required. Also, is it better to embroider before cutting the book shape, after the block is assembled or at some other time?
3) for an appliqué item, what is the best way to fix it on to the block?
I am happy to be pointed in the direction of YouTube especially for item 3 but I'm hoping a TSPer or two will have some hints too.
Here's the pattern I'm basing my quilt on.
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**Query for
@Mr Twingo please? Or anyone else who knows the ins and outs of this site.
Is it possible on TSP to limit a search with two words so when searching
bookcase quilt it doesn't return every occurrence of both words individually? In the olden days we'd put
bookcase +quilt in a search engine so the results contained both words together.