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What I'm working on
I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild
committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm -- Wendy (look! I remembered to put the URL in!) http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm un-STUFF email address to reply |
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On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:38:02 GMT, "frood"
wrote: I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm That is a really cool looking quilt!!! I like the idea of a "liberated" quilt...no one can see any mistakes cause there aren't any! Might be a good kind to make after making a really tough quilt Roberta (in VA) |
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frood wrote:
I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm Striking! -- the black rose Research Associate in the Field of Child Development and Human Relations http://community.webshots.com/user/blackrosequilts 2005 BOMs: http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/blackrosequilts/my_photos -------- __o ----- -\. -------- __o --- ( )/ ( ) ---- -\. -------------------- ( )/ ( ) ----------------------------------------- |
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Thats rather fabulous. Whats giving you fits on it?
Di frood wrote: I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm |
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That's very cool. I like it muchly.
Linda "frood" wrote in message om... I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm -- Wendy (look! I remembered to put the URL in!) http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm un-STUFF email address to reply |
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I like it -- many of my quilts seem to liberate themselves.
Linda PATCHogue, NY http://www.rrteach.bravepages.com On Thu, 30 Jun 2005 16:38:02 GMT, "frood" wrote: I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm |
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that looks great!
I have made one using just 3 solids: blue, yellow and red with a white background as a baby quilt. sadly that was before I took to taking photo's of quilts so I can't share but apparently they used it for a while and have since put it away for when the grand kids come along in about 20 odd years if they are lucky... it was too "nice" to use up. -- Jessamy www.geocities.com/jess_ayad http://uk.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jess_ayad/my_photos In The Netherlands ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm -- Wendy (look! I remembered to put the URL in!) http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm un-STUFF email address to reply |
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frood wrote: I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm -- Wendy (look! I remembered to put the URL in!) http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm un-STUFF email address to reply Hey, That's a very cool quilt.I like the plaids and color combo. I may try something like that. Mary Ann |
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it took 4 blocks for me to figure out my strips were too wide. Then another
3 before a lightbulb went off and I realized I needed to alternate the strips so they were wide/narrow/wide/narrow. Plus, the randomness of the layout is bugging the Control Freak in me. -- Wendy http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm un-STUFF email address to reply "Diana Curtis" wrote in message ... Thats rather fabulous. Whats giving you fits on it? Di frood wrote: I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm |
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OOh thats lovely.So fresh.Your mum will love it!!
Estelle uk "frood" wrote in message om... I'm taking a week off from making samples for my Block Party (I'm the guild committee for this) to make this quilt for my mom. She just turned 75 last week, and has been asking me for a quilt for some time. Now that my shoulder has recovered somewhat, I started working on hers. It will be cuddle-size, for naps on the couch, and I'll have it professionally quilted. My shoulder is still too sore for me to MQ yet. The design is from the book Quick Quilts to Make in a Weekend, by Rosemary Wilkinson. It's supposed to be a "liberated" quilt - meaning you don't use precise measurements, and cut the over-size blocks down after sewing in the strips. I don't think I'm liberated enough as this project is driving me nuts!!! Mom wanted a plaid quilt. I wanted to work on something that appealed to me, and was a fast project. This was the compromise I came up with. When I was growing up, Mom told me all about her dancing the Sword Dance when she was a girl, and on occasion, would even demonstrate, usually after a wee nip! This quilt design is called sword dance, which is one of the reasons I picked it! http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/WIPs.htm -- Wendy (look! I remembered to put the URL in!) http://griffinsflight.com/Quilting/quilt1.htm un-STUFF email address to reply |
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