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  #21  
Old October 20th 11, 09:45 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Butterfly-Wings
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Default Keepsake FQ special fabric amounts for quilts

Thanks. I sure wish they would have made it a bit clearer, then I would have
waited a bit longer and gotten the Winter pack.
I had planned on replacing my fall placemats that are more than a bit worn.
Any fall leaves would be appreciated. Wanna trade? Promise I won't send the
FQs "in the same design but diff colors" ; )

Butterfly


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  #22  
Old October 21st 11, 03:55 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Taria
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Default fabric amounts for quilts

Thanks Butterfly. I will have to think more than a bit to decide to do that
quilt!
I have some fall fabric. I don't think I have your current addy though.
E-mail it to me and I can pop some in the mail.
Taria )

"Butterfly-Wings" wrote in message ...

I have a lot of FQ's....decide on color themes and I'd be happy to help you
with it. Just HOLLER loud enuf so I can hear

Butterfly (who got the _fall_ Keepsake special and was quite disappointed.
Mainly SUMMER fabrics and 10 diff colorways of same design. Last one I got a
few years back was so much better.And I saved for 12 months to be able to
afford it.)

  #23  
Old October 21st 11, 10:12 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Roberta[_3_]
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Default fabric amounts for quilts

Maybe it's counterproductive to start out thinking you have to make a
king-size quilt. Just shop your stash and make a couple of compasses
and a couple of pickle dishes. Stick them on the design wall. Make a
couple more. Are you tired of them yet? Add the connecting "squares".
Do you like it? Does it look done to you? Want to make more? Going by
the picture, they can all be different but in a similar color palette.
Try a wild maverick pickle dish that really pops out and see if you
want to keep it. Experiment! Not everything has to be planned and
purchased before you start sewing.
Roberta in D, wishing my current project wasn't on a deadline

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:27:56 -0700, "Taria"
wrote:

That is what I usually do Nann. 17 pieces 2-3/4 yard is probably pushing it
for my stash.
Breaking it down even 'stashier' than that would be a challenge maybe beyond
me!
Taria


"Nann" wrote in message
...

I won't dispute everyone who's made the calculations, BUT: are you
planning to buy ALL new fabric for this quilt?
If you have most of it in your stash already, does it matter if the
top requires 52 or 62 yards?
And you can make a pieced back.

You could challenge yourself to make the entire quilt from your stash
and justifiably dine out on that accomplishment for a long time.


Nann
in blustery northeasternmost Illinois



On Oct 18, 10:54 pm, "Taria" wrote:
So I come across a neat quilt in Fons and Porter's magazine (sept./oct.
2008) It is called Mariner's in a Pickle.
It could work for what I want to do. Under the materials list is 2-3/4
yds
of 17 prints. 2 yds. for binding and
14 yards for backing. That comes to a whopping 62-3/4 yards. My question
is how much fabric would you
guess is an average for a king size quilt? This number seems kind of
crazy.
Taria

  #24  
Old October 21st 11, 02:37 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Taria
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Default fabric amounts for quilts

I kind of think that is the direction this will go if I take it on.
I might just think about it forever. I rarely do quilts that are
all several fabrics that are all thought out ahead. Most of
my stuff is scrappy in some way.
So what is your deadline project? I don't do deadlines so
well, especially since dh retired!

Taria

"Roberta" wrote in message
...

Maybe it's counterproductive to start out thinking you have to make a
king-size quilt. Just shop your stash and make a couple of compasses
and a couple of pickle dishes. Stick them on the design wall. Make a
couple more. Are you tired of them yet? Add the connecting "squares".
Do you like it? Does it look done to you? Want to make more? Going by
the picture, they can all be different but in a similar color palette.
Try a wild maverick pickle dish that really pops out and see if you
want to keep it. Experiment! Not everything has to be planned and
purchased before you start sewing.
Roberta in D, wishing my current project wasn't on a deadline

  #25  
Old October 22nd 11, 10:57 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Roberta[_3_]
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Default friendship quilt fabric amounts for quilts

Once a year, I put together a friendship quilt for a charity
foundation.
(http://www.fawcofoundation.org/index...6&It emid=143
if you're interested)
The quilt will be raffled at the conference in March, but it needs to
be finished by the end of November so we can photograph it, put up the
picture, and start selling the raffle tickets. The last of the blocks
arrived a couple of days ago, and I have sort of a plan. If it works.
Started some assembly this morning.
Roberta in D

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 06:37:58 -0700, "Taria"
wrote:

I kind of think that is the direction this will go if I take it on.
I might just think about it forever. I rarely do quilts that are
all several fabrics that are all thought out ahead. Most of
my stuff is scrappy in some way.
So what is your deadline project? I don't do deadlines so
well, especially since dh retired!

Taria

"Roberta" wrote in message
.. .

Maybe it's counterproductive to start out thinking you have to make a
king-size quilt. Just shop your stash and make a couple of compasses
and a couple of pickle dishes. Stick them on the design wall. Make a
couple more. Are you tired of them yet? Add the connecting "squares".
Do you like it? Does it look done to you? Want to make more? Going by
the picture, they can all be different but in a similar color palette.
Try a wild maverick pickle dish that really pops out and see if you
want to keep it. Experiment! Not everything has to be planned and
purchased before you start sewing.
Roberta in D, wishing my current project wasn't on a deadline

  #26  
Old October 23rd 11, 04:29 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Susan Laity Price
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Default Keepsake FQ special fabric amounts for quilts

I refer to my enjoyment of ordering 100 fat quarters from Keepsake for
$99 as my form of gambling. It would be easy to drop $100 at the river
boats in Illinois in just an hour and I would go home empty handed. By
ordering fat quarters I have the excitement of sorting through the
fabric, matching it up for Yellow Brick Road quilts and occasionally
giving a few fat quarters away. Instead of one evening of fun on the
river boat I have several days of fun with the fat quarters. All
fabrics are first quality but some are really out of my style. The
last batch yielded a great red, black and white throw and another
patriotic throw plus the start of a pretty pink baby quilt. My type of
gambling.

Susan

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:23:05 -0500, Sandy E wrote:

Howdy!

LOL!

But, B-fly, that's the point!
The write-up sez, "last season's patterns and colors."

Just think one-step-back:
The Fall collection has their LEFT-OVER-from-Summer fabrics. Winter will
give you the Fall collection. Spring sends the Winter/Holidays fat quarters;
and so it goes. I love it.
Fresh fabric, this year's crop, and all from name brand design lines.
Comes out to $4 per yard, & with most new fabrics hitting the market at $10+
per yard, I'm loving this bargain. There are a few fabrics I would not
necessarily have chosen, but no good fabric goes to waste. Like the 6.5"
squares in the Baseball Swap, it's a new-to-me variety. And it is good. ;-

B-fly, do you need fall colors? Lemme' know; I have a few in stock.... 8-

Cheers!

Ragmop/Sandy



On 10/20/11 12:09 PM, in article ,
"Butterfly-Wings" wrote:

I have a lot of FQ's....decide on color themes and I'd be happy to help you
with it. Just HOLLER loud enuf so I can hear

Butterfly (who got the _fall_ Keepsake special and was quite disappointed.
Mainly SUMMER fabrics and 10 diff colorways of same design. Last one I got a
few years back was so much better.And I saved for 12 months to be able to
afford it.)


  #27  
Old October 23rd 11, 04:03 PM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Taria
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Default Keepsake FQ special fabric amounts for quilts

Well, there is that. I don't gamble. I just hate losing and am not
so lucky that way so I keep my money. The one thing I have found
is that a random/ not selected by me batch of fat quarters will add
fabrics that I wouldn't buy but do add interest to my work. I always
thought of last season patterns as those from a year ago too.
I get what they mean but like Butterfly I would'nt have gone there
first thing. I wonder if Keepsake would do an exchange?
Taria


"Susan Laity Price" wrote in message
...

I refer to my enjoyment of ordering 100 fat quarters from Keepsake for
$99 as my form of gambling. It would be easy to drop $100 at the river
boats in Illinois in just an hour and I would go home empty handed. By
ordering fat quarters I have the excitement of sorting through the
fabric, matching it up for Yellow Brick Road quilts and occasionally
giving a few fat quarters away. Instead of one evening of fun on the
river boat I have several days of fun with the fat quarters. All
fabrics are first quality but some are really out of my style. The
last batch yielded a great red, black and white throw and another
patriotic throw plus the start of a pretty pink baby quilt. My type of
gambling.

Susan

On Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:23:05 -0500, Sandy E wrote:

Howdy!

LOL!

But, B-fly, that's the point!
The write-up sez, "last season's patterns and colors."

Just think one-step-back:
The Fall collection has their LEFT-OVER-from-Summer fabrics. Winter will
give you the Fall collection. Spring sends the Winter/Holidays fat
quarters;
and so it goes. I love it.
Fresh fabric, this year's crop, and all from name brand design lines.
Comes out to $4 per yard, & with most new fabrics hitting the market at
$10+
per yard, I'm loving this bargain. There are a few fabrics I would not
necessarily have chosen, but no good fabric goes to waste. Like the 6.5"
squares in the Baseball Swap, it's a new-to-me variety. And it is good.
;-

B-fly, do you need fall colors? Lemme' know; I have a few in stock.... 8-

Cheers!

Ragmop/Sandy



On 10/20/11 12:09 PM, in article ,
"Butterfly-Wings" wrote:

I have a lot of FQ's....decide on color themes and I'd be happy to help
you
with it. Just HOLLER loud enuf so I can hear

Butterfly (who got the _fall_ Keepsake special and was quite
disappointed.
Mainly SUMMER fabrics and 10 diff colorways of same design. Last one I
got a
few years back was so much better.And I saved for 12 months to be able to
afford it.)



  #28  
Old October 24th 11, 04:19 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.quilting
Butterfly-Wings
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Default Keepsake FQ special fabric amounts for quilts

Already washed, so I'll find a way to use them...I just ahve to remember
what Miz Ragmop said about the 'seasons' If I'm ever inclined to buy more.
Not a problem with fabric quality, just not what I had anticpated.

Butterfly


 




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