I just finished this one in time to give to granddaughter while on leave before shipping out. Quilted it on sewing machine, first one I've quilted on a sewing machine..back in the old day Mom and Grand Mom always quilted by hand on a large frame.
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Re: Family Valor
Tue, March 11, 2008 - 6:51 AMWell done, Patricia.
I used to quilt everything by hand, too. Then I saw my friends completing one quilt after another. I realized there were quilts I'd never get to make if I continued doing it all by hand. That's when I made friends with my machine. I'm having so much more fun and I can always go back to hand quilting if I choose. Its all good. -
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Re: Family Valor
Tue, March 11, 2008 - 7:08 AMI prefer doing the actual quilting stitches by hand. I have more control over my fingers than I do over my machine. (Sad to admit, but it's true.)
I've been practicing free-motion, but I'm still not good enough with it to choose that over hand quilting.
Then again, I rarely make anything larger than a lap quilt. I've done 3 queens and one non-standard huge thing. But the non-standard huge thing hasn't fully been quilted yet. One of the queens I tied, simply because I was so tired of it by the time I got to that point. (Sad but true.) -
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Re: Family Valor
Wed, March 19, 2008 - 9:51 AMIf I made anything bigger than a lap size,,I would send it to someone else to be quilted. Neither my Mom or Grandmother quilted on a sewing machine, all were hand pieced and hand quilted. -
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Re: Family Valor
Thu, March 20, 2008 - 1:44 PMI've never patched or quilted with a machine. Always by hand, on my lap, with at least one cat 'helping', don't own any frames either.... -
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Re: Family Valor
Thu, March 20, 2008 - 1:56 PMI do mine without frames to. I never really publicized that part, thinking it was some sort of no-no.
If I mess something up, I take the stitches out and try again. If something puckers, I usually try to determine the amount of the pucker vs. the amount of work it would be to unpucker it.
Sort of like risk management, but with puckers instead. Puckers make it look homemade, which it is.
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