What Quilt Scares You?

Actually, the kids will be going to visit daddy at least 2 or so weekends a
month, so I'll be able to have more than just an annual quilting weekend.
When are you gonna come to one?

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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


" Ellison" wrote in message
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Howdy!
See? Told you I wasn't scared: I sent you your first one! G

Hope your new home has plenty of room for your annual
quilting party; think of how easily the group could complete
a quilt for your new home!!!

Ragmop/Sandy

i see the appeal of the blooming nine patch, thanks for the links, what an
incredible play of color and texture they have going. I bet there is a sort
of formula the quilter used as a guide in choosing colors and design....now
Im curious to see if I can puzzle it out on my own....
thanks Sherri!
Di

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http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
"sdgodfrey" wrote in message
et...
A very astute question! I guess if I can figure out what differentiates
the ones I like from the ones I don't, it will be much easier to choose
fabric. Hmm... The problem is I can't pin-point it. None of the
pictures I've seen really inspire me. But the two I've seen 'in real
life' were both gorgeous. I'm trying to remember just what the ones I
liked look like. I think they had a dark center, graduating out to
light fabrics. But I'm not sure. I may have to re-visit them to check.
Thanks for the push to think it through.

BTW, here are some links to some Blooming Nine Patches on the web:

http://www.doublejproductions.com/lo...?TOPIC_ID=1351

http://www.tlcquilts.com/images/bloom9p1.jpg

http://mclaren.frenzy.com/quilting/blooming9patch.html

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Sherri G in Kentucky
http://community.webshots.com/user/sdgodfrey




"Diana Curtis" wrote in message
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| Im glad youre setting goals like this. Challenging yourself will feel
fun!
| Id love to see what you come up with for the blooming nine patch. Im
not
| familiar with it. Can you tell what it is you dont like about the ones
that
| do nothing for you vs what the wow! ones look like?
| Diana
|
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| http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44
| "sdgodfrey" wrote in message
| et...
| There are two scary ones for me. I'd love to make a blooming
9-patch.
| The fabric selection is what scares me. I've seen some that are
| gorgeous and others that, well... don't do much for me. It's all in
the
| fabric selection, and I feel I'm not experienced enough to pick the
| right fabrics yet. I'd also love to make a mariner's compass. I'm
| worried about matching the points on this one. I've got a long way
to
| go before I could make one I was happy with. But I'm confident when
I
| have a couple of years experience or so, that I will make both of
them.
|
| --
| Sherri G in Kentucky
| http://community.webshots.com/user/sdgodfrey
|

I am about to start a Dahlia with black background and bright FQ's. I'm not
sure about the curves but will give it a go anyway. If you do one let me
know how it comes out.
Heather in West Oz

"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

Howdy!
When you put in the pond/pool and the stock it w/ fish.

Quilts and ponds--what a combo! g

Ragmop/Sandy
"LN (remove NOSPAM)" wrote in message
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Actually, the kids will be going to visit daddy at least 2 or so weekends
a
month, so I'll be able to have more than just an annual quilting weekend.

When are you gonna come to one?

--
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


" Ellison" wrote in message
...
Howdy!
See? Told you I wasn't scared: I sent you your first one! G

Hope your new home has plenty of room for your annual
quilting party; think of how easily the group could complete
a quilt for your new home!!!

Ragmop/Sandy

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

Making sure the edges stay turned under, and the piece stays flat.
Maybe it's just a case of trying it to find out if I can do it or
not, given my liking for hand work I'd probably go okay with it, but
I just don't know yet.

--
Melinda
http://cust.idl.com.au/athol

Jan Dunaway wrote in message ink.net...
:-) Exactly. It's replacable... and so are stingy husbands!! lol!!

Jan


Hallelujah to that!

A Joy in Hawaii

"LN \(remove NOSPAM\)" wrote in message ...
I can answer this for everyone on here. The one that scares them is the one
they have to make for me. That's why I don't have many. I'll soon need a
housewarming quilt (or two.... or three... or....)

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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

Okay, LN, when you get an overload of quilts, pass one on over here!
It's cold up here in da mountains! (How's dat? Has anyone begged one
off of LN before? =} ).

A Joy in Hawaii

"nzl*" wrote in message ...
this faker is a scaredy cat.
i dont make quilts, i make blocks.
i like making different blocks that take my fancy.
one day i might get round to stick'n'm to one another.
i got three proper quilts in my house and one not so proper but it still
works to keep ya warm in winter in front of the tv (little wee cot quilt the
babys used).
theres only three of us here now, so we each got one, its enough.
i'm happy with whats going on for now.
aint nothing to be scared of really if ya just do one block.
if that one doesnt work, try another one. then make a sampler quilt, lol.
jeanne

Hmm. I think I like the idea of doing blocks and then stick 'em
together when I get around to it. I've wanted to make a sampler for
sometime now but I guess that intimidates me. Don't know what would
look good together and what won't. Actually had a dream last night
where a neighborhood had quilts in their yards for grass and my friend
had a huge sampler quilt in her yard with a cream background and
burgundy/pink and greens appliqued on. Hawaiian quilt/Baltimore
albumish. Yes, I do dream in color .

A Joy

A Joy in Hawaii

Hullo Lia
I've recently done a landscape quilt with a soaring eagle taking pride
of place (and a lot of space!!). This is how I did that one:

I drew and made up the landscape first, completely. I sandwiched and
quilted it.

Having decided on the size of the eagle - cut out lots and tried them on
the landscape, I then made the eagle. Mine was pieced in realistic
fabrics, colour placement from a white-tailed eagle photograph. I then
sandwiched and quilted it. Finally I appliquéd the eagle to the
landscape in the position and angle that I had worked out earlier.
People did say it looked very realistic.

I have done another quilt in the similar technique - finishing the
background and the appliqué before putting them together - and it does
work and looks really three dimensional.
..
In article kPhnb.43405$Tr4.89354@attbi_s03, Julia Altshuler
writes
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.
snipped

--Lia


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Best Regards
pat on the hill

Do you recall seeing the photo of Bristol Star? It was on the cover of
QNM a few years ago, Big circle of flying geese around a big central
mariner's compass, and the geese curve off to form 4 smaller circles in
the corners... Stunning! This is my "someday" project, except I'd need to
find how to do it in a different way so it wouldn't just look like I'd
copied that quilt. I've done lots of compasses, so technically, I THINK
it's possible, just not quite entirely sure.
Roberta in D

"Diana Curtis" wrote in
:

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