What Quilt Scares You?

Oh dear! What can we do, what can we say to help you over your fears?? This
just cannot remain this way.
Diana

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"Cindy S." wrote in message
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All of em......

Cindy from MO


"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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Is there a quilt you would love to make but it puts your stomach in
knots
to
think about making it? What would this terrifying quilt be and what
about
it
makes you tremble?
Mine is the Dahlia. Its the picking of the fabrics that has me
worried.
In
the book I have there are a couple of examples of color ways given. I
hate
all of them. But they do point out the importance of picking good
contrast
and coordinating patterns. This would be the best time to use a scanner
to
take the diagram of the quilt to be able to preview fabrics in it. Its
on
my
to do list, right under long nap.
Ok..spill... lets see if there are lots of people intimidated by the
same
quilts.
Diana

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http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44

I'm on board!!! :-)))

Jan

Queen of Squishies wrote:

My Jinny Beyer quilt kit "Stained Glass Star". It will be my first
Lone-Star-type of quilt assembly. I keep putting it off because I don't
want to ruin the beautiful, and I mean gorgeous!, fabrics. Tell you what,
let's have a party when I finally START the thing, instead of when I get it
FINISHED! Who's on board??

Karen, Queen of Squishies
motivated by celebrations

Diana Curtis wrote:
Is there a quilt you would love to make but it puts your stomach in knots to
think about making it? What would this terrifying quilt be and what about it
makes you tremble?


Good question. I have a few unmade quilts that scare me. In every
case, it is because the idea and the fabrics I've chosen are good. As
long as the rough drawing of the idea and the fabrics stay in a plastic
grocery sack in a drawer, the quilt can't turn out bad thus proving that
it wasn't such a great idea in the first place.

One such quilt is "like to the lark" based on the Shakespeare sonnet.
That one uses expensive Dutch process batiks. The lark on that quilt
has to look like it is soaring, with the last 3 lines of the sonnet
machine quilted into it.

Another goes back to when I first realized I could match fabrics. It
has the lovliest greens and oranges. That quilt has to abandon
traditional blocks and be unique.

I'd like to do a crazy quilt in all whites and beiges. That one will
need careful attention to the least changes in value. I'm collecting
light light laces and velvets and ribbons.

There's the heliconia quilt and the flamingo quilt (I've made one).

Meanwhile I'm working on a quilt made from 2 blocks that I found in a
dresser drawer. I don't know what I was thinking when I made them.

--Lia

In article ,
"Kathy Applebaum" wrote:

" Ellison" wrote in message
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Challenge: those older Dbl.Wddng. Ring tops that have
a "B cup" or larger; people keep bringing those things out of the
closet to be quilted. "There's a reason your mama (grandma/aunt/
cousin/sister/neighbor/dearly-beloved/uncle) didn't Finish that quilt:
they didn't want to deal w/ all that mess in the middle!" VBG
But I know how to handle it. ;-)

That's a challenge I'm currently facing right now. Or not facing -- I'm over
here at the computer checking out the newsgroup instead of dealing with that
DD cup Double Wedding Ring. Guess I'd better trudge back over there. It's
not going to quilt itself, no matter HOW much I wish it would!

No wonder she's married with double DD cups :-)

anon

"Marcella Tracy Peek" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Kathy Applebaum" wrote:

" Ellison" wrote in message
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Challenge: those older Dbl.Wddng. Ring tops that have
a "B cup" or larger; people keep bringing those things out of the
closet to be quilted. "There's a reason your mama (grandma/aunt/
cousin/sister/neighbor/dearly-beloved/uncle) didn't Finish that quilt:
they didn't want to deal w/ all that mess in the middle!" VBG
But I know how to handle it. ;-)

That's a challenge I'm currently facing right now. Or not facing -- I'm
over
here at the computer checking out the newsgroup instead of dealing with
that
DD cup Double Wedding Ring. Guess I'd better trudge back over there.
It's
not going to quilt itself, no matter HOW much I wish it would!

No wonder she's married with double DD cups :-)

anon

Who? Me or the piecer??? *grin* (As for me, I only make flat quilts. I know
how much trouble those DD cups can get a girl into! *snorfle!*)

--
Kathy A. (Woodland, CA)
longarm machine quilting, Queen of Fabric Tramps
http://www.kayneyquilting.com ,
remove the obvious to reply

Hmm scare me? Nothing quilty.

Intimidate me for awhile.. surely.
Probably an art quilt where I was told to just.. do what I feel.
I'd probably go for a margarita. Blank slates challenge me. Toooo many
possibilitiesss... brain overload... smoke.. error error non-sequiter.. your
facts are uncorrelated...

Elena, winding down.

"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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Is there a quilt you would love to make but it puts your stomach in knots
to
think about making it? What would this terrifying quilt be and what about
it
makes you tremble?
Mine is the Dahlia. Its the picking of the fabrics that has me worried.
In
the book I have there are a couple of examples of color ways given. I hate
all of them. But they do point out the importance of picking good
contrast
and coordinating patterns. This would be the best time to use a scanner to
take the diagram of the quilt to be able to preview fabrics in it. Its on
my
to do list, right under long nap.
Ok..spill... lets see if there are lots of people intimidated by the same
quilts.
Diana

--
http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44

I would love it! Perhaps I'll have to do that when I bring the Kirbster up!

--
Alice in NJ
www.ourcyberfamily.us
"In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends."
John Churton Collins




"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message
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Come up for a visit some weekend and I'll have you hand appliquing with
ease
before you leave!

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LN in NH
a crazy quilter * hand quilter * & hand appliquér
all in all --- a very slow quilter.... So send quilts!
http://photos.yahoo.com/lns_obsessed

"AliceW" wrote in message
om...
I would love to do a Baltimore Album quilt but the thought of all the
applique really scares me to death! I've done DWR in a table runner
and it wasn't as bad as I thought. I think I need to find a smaller
applique project to work on which would either make it or break it for
applique for me.

Alice in NJ

You got it! One Starting the Quilt Happy Dance on standby for you, Karen!
Diana

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http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
"Queen of Squishies" wrote in message
ink.net...
My Jinny Beyer quilt kit "Stained Glass Star". It will be my first
Lone-Star-type of quilt assembly. I keep putting it off because I don't
want to ruin the beautiful, and I mean gorgeous!, fabrics. Tell you what,
let's have a party when I finally START the thing, instead of when I get
it
FINISHED! Who's on board??

Karen, Queen of Squishies
motivated by celebrations
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My reply address is scrambled. Please change my
address to hicall80 at earthlink dot net

"Diana Curtis" wrote:

I dont know. Fearful appliquers, want to field this one? Im in the let me at
it kind of mode for applique so I dont know what might be intimidating.
Diana

I am not afraid of applique, she says bravely. It is just that it is
too particular and fiddly for my taste. I have gotten as far as
machine appliquing an individual flower from a GFG on a piece of
fabric. That may be as close as I'll get in this lifetime.
Mary

"Jalynne" wrote:

grandmother's flower garden. All those little hexagons....shudder
--
Jalynne
Queen Gypsy (snail mail available upon request)
see what i've been up to at www.100megsfree4.com/jalynne
This has been my carry around project for the past 4 years (all pieced
now). It has been wonderfully mindless as I have waited for various
children to emerge from school, appointments, lessons and so on.
Mary