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Big bright quilt
Inspired by Keaniebean's quilt (Sarah, I said that on my blog as well but I'm not a stalker/ single white female-type person honestly), I made a quilt too! (Sorry for flickr link, I am working with inadequate IT facilities here. Mine not ish's. ;-) ). There are a few more photos on my flickr + also one of me looking slightly mad in a knitted cowl, don't say I didn't warn you.
Terrifyingly this was made all out of stash fabric (hence the slightly eccentric colour scheme). So the whole thing only cost me the price of the wadding which was about £17. I do use quilts, so it will get lots of use.
It was a bugger to quilt, I broke three needles and the light on my sewing machine went out (in a terribly symbolic fashion) and I started to think Fate was against me but I persevered. And now it is done! I swore while I was doing it that I would never quilt anything again but when I was putting my fabric scraps away I may have got some others out just to see what they look like together. But I'm not addicted. Honestly .
Terrifyingly this was made all out of stash fabric (hence the slightly eccentric colour scheme). So the whole thing only cost me the price of the wadding which was about £17. I do use quilts, so it will get lots of use.
It was a bugger to quilt, I broke three needles and the light on my sewing machine went out (in a terribly symbolic fashion) and I started to think Fate was against me but I persevered. And now it is done! I swore while I was doing it that I would never quilt anything again but when I was putting my fabric scraps away I may have got some others out just to see what they look like together. But I'm not addicted. Honestly .
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Well done! A great lot of gifted people here!
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Re: Big bright quilt
gorgeous!
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Beautiful!
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And let us be kind
Let us be silly and free
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But damn it how happy we'll be!
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Let us be silly and free
It won't make us famous
It won't make us rich
But damn it how happy we'll be!
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I praise you once more you stalker person, but actually what I am most upset about is that you have a fence big enough to hang it from
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Re: Big bright quilt
That's lovely
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beautiful!
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Re: Big bright quilt
Wow that is beautiful
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Wow, it's amazing! I love it, the colour scheme is great. I made a quilt recently too:
http://serendipitychild.blogspot.com/20 ... quilt.html
Made from bits of fabric and old shirts.
http://serendipitychild.blogspot.com/20 ... quilt.html
Made from bits of fabric and old shirts.
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Susie, this is quite frankly GORGEOUS.
Well done you. Even better that it was practically free.
*goes off to pick up half made excuse of a quilt started in 2006*
Well done you. Even better that it was practically free.
*goes off to pick up half made excuse of a quilt started in 2006*
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Thank you, everyone! (And Helsbells, well done! Isn't it addictive?).
I think what I'm pleased about with this quilt is, I always kind of thought you couldn't really manage to quilt a large(ish) quilt on a basic, non-long-arm sewing machine without a walking foot. I could probably stretch to a walking foot but I'm never going to be able to buy a long-arm machine, but actually, I don't need one, it quilted fine! So I'm really encouraged and I'm making another.
I think what I'm pleased about with this quilt is, I always kind of thought you couldn't really manage to quilt a large(ish) quilt on a basic, non-long-arm sewing machine without a walking foot. I could probably stretch to a walking foot but I'm never going to be able to buy a long-arm machine, but actually, I don't need one, it quilted fine! So I'm really encouraged and I'm making another.
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Yay, I love how creative people on this forum are! I've seen so many cool things!
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@ Helsbells, That's really pretty.
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Re: Big bright quilt
Very, very pretty!