Bolts!
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 7:48AM I still haven’t done any sewing for a few days, but at least I accomplished something! I did a bit of work outside… and I still have to mow today, ugh. Probably no sewing again.
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Last night the UPS man arrived with 27 bolts of fabric I ordered, all Moda Marbles and Bella Solids! That should keep me busy for awhile! Tomorrow I have the second part of my Lone star class, I’m really looking forward to it. This time I made sure to pack the snap on table for my Bernina 630!
A long time ago, I posted a picture of my very first quilt top I pieced. I never got around to quilting it, because for the longest time my HQ16 was only setup at eight feet. Of course my Millennium is on a 14 foot table so I no longer have the excuse of not having a large enough frame to quilt this monster. The borders are about as friendly as they can get! I remember my thought process when I;)
read the direction on applying them, and thinking to myself, “how silly! Why not just cut strips of fabric, sew them to the sides of the quilt, and chop off the excess?” Which is exactly what I did. LOL
I could of course remove them and fix them, but I’m not going to. I figure at some point a customer is going to give me a quilt with “friendly” borders, and I could use this quilt as a learning tool and see how to deal with it.
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I was so proud of this quilt when I made it, I made an embroidered label and swapped it out for one of the blocks on the front of the quilt! hehe.
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Reader Comments (10)
Love your label on the front of the quilt!Why not?
27 bolts of fabric, are you starting a garage quilt shop?
27 full bolts! wow you must be planning on opening up the much needed quilting shop we need in our area!! That will last you a very long time indeed with all of the other fabric that you have.
Karen
http://karensquilting.com/blog/
Wow! I can only think of how much fun I could have with that much fabric!
Phew - now that's SERIOUS fabric. I think I need to place an "extreme" order now that I have MONEY. Although I'd best wait for the house proceeds to clear first....LOL
I missed you while I was gone, CJ. You've always been my idol..:-)
27 bolts, WOW! I think I would be so overwhelmed that I would just stare at them for a while....
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There's a lot of bear paws in that quilt. I like that block but have trouble with all those little half square triangles. They make my head hurt, so I ordered Triangulations 2.0. Hope it gets here today.
Never heard the term "friendly border." What does that mean?
Have fun.
OOOOH! Look at all that fabric!!!! You lucky, lucky girl.
Seriously, I could just live in your garage and be a happy camper.
Where do you order your bolts from?
I'm in serious envy!! 27 bolts.... Can't wait to see what you do with it all.
Is the monkey quilt your design? May I ask about the pattern? I'd love to make one.
Love the fabric. I am envious. Good move on leaving the quilt like it is and using it for practice.