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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 |
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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 -- 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 -- Sherri G in Kentucky http://community.webshots.com/user/sdgodfrey "Diana Curtis" wrote in message ... | 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 | | -- | 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 | |
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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 ... 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 |
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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 ... 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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"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....) -- 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 |
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"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 |
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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 -- Best Regards pat on the hill |
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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 -- http://photos.yahoo.com/lunamom44 |
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