Finally finished - happy dance, I guess

Congratulations Brian. That's a most impressive and pretty (at the same
time) quilt. I bet you are feeling thrilled at having done it - and in
time (revised deadline!).
Will certainly do a happy dance for you - once I get the cats to wake
up!
Thanks for showing us the pictures.
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In article , Brian
Christiansen writes
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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Best Regards
pat on the hill

The pattern is have in mind is a tesselating cat pattern. Mostly parallel
lines but not sure how anything but outlining the kittys would do. I'll
figure it out when I get there. Might be an incentive to talk Dad into
making me a quilting frame!

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Debi (always an ulterior motive ;-)

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?


"Brian Christiansen" wrote in message
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"Debi Matlack" wrote in message
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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...

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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

I've seen the technique and it's a possibility. I'm just kind of afraid of
what the sections might look like trying to put them together already
quilted. There's already a lot of swearing when I sew as it is...;-)

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Debi

Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?


"Sandy Foster" wrote in message
...
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.
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