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The Emporia => Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside => Topic started by: Celia on July 05, 2020, 10:19:06 AM
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After much deliberation and help I am going to state my intention to join the dark side. I have done a few of the 2020 blocks that Iminea has kindly provided, this has given me some confidence so now my first real project.
I am going to make a pink quilt in the pattern suggested by @wrenkins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYRXjZeiAJY I don’t think I have enough fabric for the cornerstones and the border but if I just do the cornerstones and use something very similar for the border I think it will work.
The fabric is a jelly roll from Moda and the cream is a very fine calico, first question is this going to be ok?
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I don’t think I have enough fabric for the cornerstones and the border but if I just do the cornerstones and use something very similar for the border I think it will work.
And zat is ze vonder of Ze Darkside!!! :devil:
The Missouri Quilting Company have lots of excellent, clear and simple Youtube vids for all types of quilt ... a really good resource in these technological days and somewhat of a fairy story (https://www.forbes.com/feature/missouri-star-quilting/#4f8909c97486) for the Doan family and the town of Hamilton too
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I don’t think I have enough fabric for the cornerstones and the border but if I just do the cornerstones and use something very similar for the border I think it will work.
And zat is ze vonder of Ze Darkside!!! :devil:
True its not that easy to make one leg out of a different fabric if you run out when making trousers etc.
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Hehehehe another recruit. Welcome @Celia .
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True its not that easy to make one leg out of a different fabric if you run out when making trousers etc.
:D :D :D
I'll be watching your progress with interest. I'm hoping to make the opposite journey.
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No @Pearl don't go :'( Welcome @Celia
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It's OK @Pearl you can do both - I do.
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Don't worry, @Lowena , I'm not leaving. I'm going to do as @maliw does.
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As it just so happens my pin-man is back and he brought with him 'stuff for the charity shop/dump' for us to go through. My NDN has two Air B&Bs and he's dumped about twenty sets of bedding including numerous white and cream flat sheets...ideal for practising clothes and fitting and wotnot so I'm hoping to have a foot in both camps soon too. 0_0
@Celia the nice thing about darkside stash is that the pieces are small. (The stash isn't necessarily but the pieces are! 0_0).
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Sheets make good backing for quilts too.I often use them
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Welcome @Celia - I have a foot in both camps too, so it's definitely possible to enjoy both. When you get fed up with one, you can have a go at the other! :)
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As a long-time lightsider and a new darksider, it's perfectly wonderful to have a foot in both camps :thumbsup:
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Sheets make good backing for quilts too.I often use them
I second that.
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Well yesterday’s eforts seem a bit small and I am not too sure about the contrast on some of the blocks but I will try to have another go this afternoon. I have packed all bits in a box and have my sewing tools in another, all I need now is a small space downstairs, some muscles to move the sewing machine and I might be able to sew. My Son is back in my room :(
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You see, corner stones, blocks, another world totally :rolleyes:
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I hate Jelly rolls with pinked edges, they shed little bits everywhere, anyone who knows me know I only wear Black bottoms so you can imagine what I look like.
Not sure if thee is enough contrast? Does everyone cut out all their blocks before they start or what?
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I've just realised that now that the nearby IKEA has closed down, I won't be able to get lint rollers so easily.
I like your blocks. Very subtle. I cut a bit, sew a bit. I have the attention span of a gnat.
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@Celia, you can cut all the blocks out first or cut as you go. We’re quite a flexible bunch on the dark side:it’s personal preference. I tend to cut as I go, as I like to see the quilt develop and choose what I want to put in next, but that’s because I like doing scrappy quilts. I suppose if you’re using a stricter colour scheme, the risk is you might run out of certain fabrics, if you cut as as you go and you wouldn’t know until later in the project.
I think you have enough contrast, if most of the blocks are going to be similarly light. Sometimes if you have some strong coloured blocks mixed in, the paler ones can look washed out.
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I cut and sew each block. Cutting non stop would drive me demented.
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I am so glad to hear that, I don’t think I could cope with cutting all the pieces at once. I hope someone has the quilting police still locked up.
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Yep. Still in the field shelter, and the nettles are growing up.
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Does everyone cut out all their blocks before they start or what?
NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!! :scream:
If you do that you will have a mountain of cut pieces that immediately start to fray and a feeling of being overwhelmed!
Cut ONE block .. piece it, see if you like it, then cut another one or two ... just as many as you can sew at a time.
The only caveat here would be if you had fabric for an entire quilt and needed to cut lengths for borders.
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Yep. Still in the field shelter, and the nettles are growing up.
Good to hear
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@Iminei I notice you keep mentioning fraying...my fabrics never fray.Whatever do you do to yours :D
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@Lowena .. your fabrics wouldn't dare!
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:D :D : :D
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I'm a bit of a shambles and I mix and match. I am finding with the BOM though that I keep having to fish out my fabrics and hunt through them. I don't think I'm liking that very much even though they are in a lil bag.
The other project that I have on the go I cut most of it and have now sewed that so it's time for another cutting session and I'll finish it all this time hopefully.
I think you're getting the idea by now that you can do whatever you like! 0_0
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I have done only one quilt so far. It's about 40 by 50 inches and for my new grandson.
Made from 2 jelly rolls, one a bright kids print and the other blue shades and prints.
It looks great. Top is done. I will have to see if I can get a pic up once I have it finished.
I cut all of the pieces before starting, laid out how I wanted them in each block and then stacked the whole thing so I could just pull off the pieces in order for each block. It worked well for me this time. Just a simple rail fence quilt. I suspect that as I do more complicated stuff that actually requires a pattern and different sizes of pieces, I will probably opt for a more block by block type approach. It could get really confusing very quickly having 7 or 8 piles of different sized, different colored pieces and enough for a complete quilt stacked up at one time.
You've got some great prints there. As others have said, i think the print will be lost when cut into strips and would probably go with a pattern containing larger blocks to really show off those great prints.
Good luck. If I can do it, anybody can. Just take your time. Follow your pattern and everything will be fine.
Please keep us posted on how it's going.
PS...It's easy to hide all but the most glaring mistakes in most quilts and still have them look great.
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If I'm planning a BIG quilt I do like to cut all the pieces first - and make sure I have enough plastic boxes for each size patch. I am definitely in the scrappy, the more fabrics the better camp but the fabrics do have to be the right colours. Cutting everything first gets a better distribution of the individual fabrics - unless you want it to look like a series of not quite matched blocks.
If I'm doing something smaller such as a cusion cover then it just evolves as I go.