@Lilian
A set-in or Y-seam joins diamonds and diamonds to triangles. It isn't difficult but requires a little patience and thought.
http://www.quiltpatternmagazine.com/pdfs/tutorials/019-NN-InsetYSeamTutorial.pdf
I have read that quilters love the Singer 221.
That means that a quilt can be made with a straight stitcher?....
Hooray I can use my 201?
How do they feed a massive quilt through such a small harp on the 221?
I need to make a single quilt.
@SewotOkay..got it!
Pics and destructions 6 - 12 in the cot quilt tut.
Hi PeteBrenda.
These works of art did not happen just by cuffing it
No they didn't! Three of them are from written instructions in Books.
The firt image of the quilt on the bed in claret/wine/rose/burgandy colours is 'Shakespear in the Park' from Judy Martin's The Creative Pattern Book (https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Creative-Pattern-Book-Complete-Intriguing/dp/0929589068/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=the+creative+pattern+book+judy+martin&qid=1595065583&sr=8-1)
The little XOX quilt (Sisters Log Cabin)and the blue/green/rust bed quilt (Buckeye Log Cabin) came from her book Extraordinary Log Cabin Quilts (https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Extraordinary-Cabin-Quilts-Judy-Martin/dp/0929589157/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=extraordinary+log+cabin&qid=1595065527&sr=8-1).
See also her website: http://www.judymartin.com/
She gives very detailed instructions for the sizes to cut and instructions for putting it all together, but they aren't beginners stuff!
The Blue Lucky Stars quilt was just made up as I went along.
It was a friendship block swap way back in the days of the predecessor to The Sewing Place, though most of the participants are here on TSP: @Ellabella @Efemera @Iminei @QuiltySisty @Sheilago @Sakar @Lowena myself and Fabric Floosie each made nine blocks, one for ourselves and one for each of the others. I requested blues and purples and I put them together with pieced 'sashing' which creates a lot more stars. When my selection arrived I found that one of the purples was close to bright pink and a couple of the blues were cyan blue as well as the darker blues and purples, so I went through stash and found a similar bright pink and cyan blue to make it all go together. Then I just made up the corners and borders and finished it with prairie point edges. I know whoeach of the blocks came from because I put my own block in the centre and embroidered the other names onto it closest to where their block is.
Went to the fabric shop today and they have massive options for quilting.
Rolls and rolls of it all different patterns.
My advice is to keep to small scale prints and blender fabrics and best if only a couple of colours in each fabric. That way you have more control over how you place the colours. For backing fabric, or if I'm using just one white for the lights, I do buy bigger pieces of fabric, but 4 fat quarters should be the same price as a full metre.
So by " Piecing" this means sewing up a square block of lots of pieces to create a square? By machine?
Piecing is the patchwork - sewing the small pieces of fabric together.
My sister in law laid segments ( for the block?) On card and then hand stitched them!
Sounds like English Paper piecing (EPP) mostly used with hexagons and diamonds.
Or it might have been Foundation Paper piecing (FPP) used for irregular and complex shapes.
Patchwork with machine piecing uses mostly squares, rectangles and triangles cut from squares. The pieces are sewn together to make blocks (which are usually square) and then the blocks are sewn together to make a quilt top. It's just a
logical way of putting things together.
What parts of a quilt requires hand stitching?
Any of it, none of it or a combination. Your choice.
Can I machine a whole quilt?
Yes!
Sewing the small pieces into blocks and joining the blocks together is straightforward (though it takes a bit of practice to get points coming together nicely). Quilting is a bit more difficult, especially if you are trying to get a large quilt crammed into the harp space. On my big wine/rose/burgandy/claret quilt I chose to hand quilt it. The other bed quilt I used a "quilt as you go" technique whereby the blocks were joined into strips, a strip was quilted, then a second strip quilted and joined to the first one, then another strip quilted and joined on to the previous pair and so one. Other QAYG methods have a strip of sashing between the strips (and usually between the blocks in each strip) but that definitely wasn't an option for that design.
ETA: AS the others have said, start with something small, not a full size bed quilt!
@Sewot I think small is good to start with.Thank you Bjay.
Voice of experience there is that I started big, got lost with it all, gave up and wandered back some months ago to find these lovely people.
I am now working through the BOM's and learning so much about technique and colour
By the way I started with an ordinary sewing machine and have recently upgraded but it is still not an all singing all dancing one
BOM then. i have sorted out my 3 colours and am going to use the BOP as the surround and maybe the whirly one as a frame as I am getting very low on that one
May have a go later, will see how i feel
Beautiful @Flobear ...
Go and grab yourself a Garibaldi to go with your fizz ... Lowena's not in the BOMHOF ...
:angel:
I could be doing with more corners to put the misfiits in. 0_0