100 Quarter Yards Fabric, One Week, 3 Quilts

Photo journal of creation of 3 quilts. Only the finished product of 1 quilt is shown. I will work on photos of the other 2 at a later time. (Yes, that is me playing in the background.)

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Entertainment

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• quilt
• flying
• geese
• fabric
• cool
• colorful
• creative
• unique
• one
• of
• a
• kind
• original
• craft
• piano
• cat
• kitty
• kidblood1

[FMK1984]

at first i was like... um this shoudl be interesting. because of all the colors, but i thought it turned out great.

I am a very begining quilter. I only have one crib wuilt under my belt, and i sort of got lucky on it. my machine broke and I ended up tying the quilt when finished.

have you ever made a baby clothes quilt? I am taking on that as my next project and wanted to do some kind of semi design (with color scheme[patriotic] not cutting-thats too hard for me now!) Any thoguhts?

[WineOhh]

My first thought is DON'T DO IT! I did 1. I will never do one again. The mother of the child loved it.....I thought it was hidious. She wouldn't let me cut most of the clothes...which was a nightmare. If you're going to attempt it....cut everything into strips, or squares, or triangles...some shape. I wont even show a pitcure of the quilt disaster I created.  As I said...the person that comissioned it LOVED it....I on the other hand...don't really want people to know I made it! Good Luck!

[ajamrani]

I'm a scrap quilter. so I appreciate how much fun it is to work with all those beautiful quarter yard (whether fat or long). The cat's sweet. Cats *do* love quilts and quilting, don't they?

[WineOhh]

Can't quilt w/o that guy. He's got a buddy now too....and she's in the way just as much as he is. I need to do a proj. like this again, try and deplete my stash a little bit so I can buy more!

[MsCJay9]

Interesting assistant you have there, I never let our cat near my quilting fabrics etc, it would be hard to try and wash a quilt top before the quilt is finished...and I find animal fur is hard to remove anyway as it is so fine...

[WineOhh]

Old Singers are the BEST! That's all I sew on. Well....my detail machine is a Husquvarna....and my serger is a White...but for straight stitch....old Singers are the way to go. Sorry I don't log on often! Hopefully you've figured out how to thread it by now! As for interfacing....not necessary....just makes the t-shirt materials easier to work with. Will work w/or w/o fusible interfacing. Good luck!

[Taro550]

So many flying geese... and so many colors O_O... it turned out great though. I'm a new quilter, and flying geese was the first block i ever made.

[FMK1984]

( i promise I am not a stalker!)

in the ways of patterns, the one I am wanting to try is the around the world quilt, with a gradiant of orange for a quilt that i want to make my neice (actually 3, orange, purple and a pink quilt)

is that realitively easy?? you think you could make a how to vid for that?

[FMK1984]

for the babyclothes quilt, is the fusible interfacing really that necessary? or would I ruin it without it? I only bother you with so many questions because I can obviously tell you know what your doing. all help is MADLY appreciated.

do you know anything about singer sewing machines, early like 1922 around? I just got one, and have no clue how to thread it. or oil it or anything. know of any video tutorials if not?

[FMK1984]

oh lol ok. now that you have described it I HAVE to see it hehe. please humor me.

im hoping mine wont be a disaster. it would make me very sad. BUT I guess I cant mess it up too bad. I am only doing squares, and probably no pattern. as patterns overwhelm me to a degree of panic. the quilt you did (in vid) was awesome, but I dont think I will EVER try one. maybe a 9 patch but even that is way in the future.

[magicalumbrella]

Thanks for sharing your creativity. It was a great fun video to watch... huge smile about the cute kitty phots... keep up the good work!