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Finally finished - happy dance, I guess
I have finally finished a quilt I have been working on for...well I won't
say, but I will say it was supposed to have been a present for a holiday that occurred well before Christmas. It is a Christmas, etc., present for my brother and his wife. The quilt is a simple fencerail, with the finished size of each of the patches being 4" by 2", and a double row of sashing (?) around the outside. I wanted to make it big enough to fit a king size bed, so I made it 90" by 108", I hope that is big enough. There is a picture of it at http://photos.yahoo.com/v_1brchr. It is in the folder marked "christmas quilt". One is a picture of the whole quilt on a bed in the guestroom. The others are closeups of it. One of them show the sashing (?), or at least partly. Another shows the "jumping jack quilting" pattern that I used in it. Much as I would like to take credit for coming up with the "jumping jack" pattern, it was out of a quilting magazine. The blocks I hand quilted on a frame, you can see some of the stitching in some of the pictures. For the outside sashing (?), I did some very big stippling (which I am NOT going to post any pictures of), which was a major wrestling match with such a large quilt. PS - I put a (?) next to the word "sashing" because I am not quite certain if that is the proper term. Is it still sahing if it is around the outside, and not interspersed on the inside of the quilt in between the blocks. |
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Well, I don't know about sashing technically, but I think it is called a
border if it goes all the way around the quilt, but.... who cares what you call it. The quilt is beautiful and I'm sure it will be appreciated no matter how 'late' you think it is!!! Tricia http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii "Brian Christiansen" wrote in message . .. I have finally finished a quilt I have been working on for...well I won't say, but I will say it was supposed to have been a present for a holiday that occurred well before Christmas. It is a Christmas, etc., present for my brother and his wife. The quilt is a simple fencerail, with the finished size of each of the patches being 4" by 2", and a double row of sashing (?) around the outside. I wanted to make it big enough to fit a king size bed, so I made it 90" by 108", I hope that is big enough. There is a picture of it at http://photos.yahoo.com/v_1brchr. It is in the folder marked "christmas quilt". One is a picture of the whole quilt on a bed in the guestroom. The others are closeups of it. One of them show the sashing (?), or at least partly. Another shows the "jumping jack quilting" pattern that I used in it. Much as I would like to take credit for coming up with the "jumping jack" pattern, it was out of a quilting magazine. The blocks I hand quilted on a frame, you can see some of the stitching in some of the pictures. For the outside sashing (?), I did some very big stippling (which I am NOT going to post any pictures of), which was a major wrestling match with such a large quilt. PS - I put a (?) next to the word "sashing" because I am not quite certain if that is the proper term. Is it still sahing if it is around the outside, and not interspersed on the inside of the quilt in between the blocks. |
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I like your stuff too.
Normally, I would call the stuff around the outside either a border or "framing," but recently I have seen people on this group using the word "sashing" for strips of fabric that are not blocks, and I am not quite certain of the technical meaning of the term. Is it still "sashing" if it goes around the blocks, or is it only "sashing" if it is interspersed amongst the blocks? Brian Christiansen "A&T" wrote in message nk.net... Well, I don't know about sashing technically, but I think it is called a border if it goes all the way around the quilt, but.... who cares what you call it. The quilt is beautiful and I'm sure it will be appreciated no matter how 'late' you think it is!!! Tricia http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii |
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"Brian Christiansen" wrote: I have finally finished a quilt I have been working on for...well I won't say, but I will say it was supposed to have been a present for a holiday that occurred well before Christmas. It is a Christmas, etc., present for my brother and his wife. The quilt is a simple fencerail, with the finished size of each of the patches being 4" by 2", and a double row of sashing (?) around the outside. I wanted to make it big enough to fit a king size bed, so I made it 90" by 108", I hope that is big enough. There is a picture of it at http://photos.yahoo.com/v_1brchr. It is in the folder marked "christmas quilt". One is a picture of the whole quilt on a bed in the guestroom. The others are closeups of it. One of them show the sashing (?), or at least partly. Another shows the "jumping jack quilting" pattern that I used in it. Much as I would like to take credit for coming up with the "jumping jack" pattern, it was out of a quilting magazine. The blocks I hand quilted on a frame, you can see some of the stitching in some of the pictures. For the outside sashing (?), I did some very big stippling (which I am NOT going to post any pictures of), which was a major wrestling match with such a large quilt. PS - I put a (?) next to the word "sashing" because I am not quite certain if that is the proper term. Is it still sahing if it is around the outside, and not interspersed on the inside of the quilt in between the blocks. It's lovely, Brian! I'd call that outer fabric a border, but you can call it whatever you like. g -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
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Brian, I generally call the strips of fabric between blocks sashing and the
strip(s) around the outside the border. That doesn't mean it's right, though! I hadn't noticed the term sashing being used in any other way, but I'll keep my eyes open for that. Maybe I've been wrong all these years! -- Louise in Iowa nieland4 at mchsi dot com http://community.webshots.com/user/louiseiniowa "Brian Christiansen" wrote in message . .. I like your stuff too. Normally, I would call the stuff around the outside either a border or "framing," but recently I have seen people on this group using the word "sashing" for strips of fabric that are not blocks, and I am not quite certain of the technical meaning of the term. Is it still "sashing" if it goes around the blocks, or is it only "sashing" if it is interspersed amongst the blocks? Brian Christiansen "A&T" wrote in message nk.net... Well, I don't know about sashing technically, but I think it is called a border if it goes all the way around the quilt, but.... who cares what you call it. The quilt is beautiful and I'm sure it will be appreciated no matter how 'late' you think it is!!! Tricia http://photos.yahoo.com/momiixii |
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It looks really nice! The colors work well together and seems to have some
movement to it that I like. I am hoping to make my husband and I a quilt for our king size bed too this year, but I'm not so sure about the quilting. I lose patience with machine quilting trying to wrestle with it, but hand quilting is even slower, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do... -- Debi Ever stop to think, and forget to start again? "Brian Christiansen" wrote in message . .. I have finally finished a quilt I have been working on for...well I won't say, but I will say it was supposed to have been a present for a holiday that occurred well before Christmas. It is a Christmas, etc., present for my brother and his wife. The quilt is a simple fencerail, with the finished size of each of the patches being 4" by 2", and a double row of sashing (?) around the outside. I wanted to make it big enough to fit a king size bed, so I made it 90" by 108", I hope that is big enough. There is a picture of it at http://photos.yahoo.com/v_1brchr. It is in the folder marked "christmas quilt". One is a picture of the whole quilt on a bed in the guestroom. The others are closeups of it. One of them show the sashing (?), or at least partly. Another shows the "jumping jack quilting" pattern that I used in it. Much as I would like to take credit for coming up with the "jumping jack" pattern, it was out of a quilting magazine. The blocks I hand quilted on a frame, you can see some of the stitching in some of the pictures. For the outside sashing (?), I did some very big stippling (which I am NOT going to post any pictures of), which was a major wrestling match with such a large quilt. PS - I put a (?) next to the word "sashing" because I am not quite certain if that is the proper term. Is it still sahing if it is around the outside, and not interspersed on the inside of the quilt in between the blocks. |
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"Debi Matlack" wrote in message ink.net... It looks really nice! The colors work well together and seems to have some movement to it that I like. I am hoping to make my husband and I a quilt for our king size bed too this year, but I'm not so sure about the quilting. I lose patience with machine quilting trying to wrestle with it, but hand quilting is even slower, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do... -- Debi Can you do the quilting in paralell lines ("in the ditch," but I suppose it is really only be "in the ditch" if the pattern is an N-patch or fencerail). Still would be a major wrestling match, but less of one than trying to do it freehand. Brian Christiansen |
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Happy dancing for you, Brian. What a glorious wonderful quilt. I love the
pattern and your fabrics and it calls me and says "Come here and let's have a nice long winter's nap". Ah. Good, good. Polly "Brian Christiansen" wrote in message . .. "Debi Matlack" wrote in message ink.net... It looks really nice! The colors work well together and seems to have some movement to it that I like. I am hoping to make my husband and I a quilt for our king size bed too this year, but I'm not so sure about the quilting. I lose patience with machine quilting trying to wrestle with it, but hand quilting is even slower, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do... -- Debi Can you do the quilting in paralell lines ("in the ditch," but I suppose it is really only be "in the ditch" if the pattern is an N-patch or fencerail). Still would be a major wrestling match, but less of one than trying to do it freehand. Brian Christiansen |
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In article . net,
"Debi Matlack" wrote: It looks really nice! The colors work well together and seems to have some movement to it that I like. I am hoping to make my husband and I a quilt for our king size bed too this year, but I'm not so sure about the quilting. I lose patience with machine quilting trying to wrestle with it, but hand quilting is even slower, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do... -- Debi Debi, have you considered quilting it in sections and later putting the sections together? It makes it more manageable. I haven't done that, but a friend of mine did and found it worked really well. -- Sandy in Henderson, near Las Vegas my ISP is earthlink.net -- put sfoster1(at) in front http://home.earthlink.net/~sfoster1 |
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Debi Matlack wrote:
I am hoping to make my husband and I a quilt for our king size bed too this year, but I'm not so sure about the quilting. I lose patience with machine quilting trying to wrestle with it, but hand quilting is even slower, so I'm not sure what I'm going to do... You can quilt it in sections. There are different ways to do that. You can see how I did one at http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/..._Sections.html Julia in MN -- This message has been scanned for viruses by Norton Anti-Virus http://webpages.charter.net/jaccola/ |
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