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Post by jennieg on Dec 17, 2009 22:11:51 GMT
That is pretty, Mary! looks like a flower, a lotus or water lily.
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Post by maryinkentucky on Dec 19, 2009 0:08:45 GMT
Funny you should say that. I needed a gift for a friend and just went to my stash to see what I had. The colors are perfect for her kitchen. I originally bought the outer fabric because it looked like Monet. I gave up on making a Monet quilt when my niece said she didn't like pink.
I searched for several years for Monet-looking fabric, but most was too glarish, lots of flowers, but bright colors. I couldn't find waterlilies anywhere. I saw several wall hangings with a paper pieced water lily on lots of blues and greens for a watery background. But I wanted to make a large quilt.
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Post by ragdall on Dec 19, 2009 6:37:39 GMT
Mary, It looks beautiful! The colours go so well together.
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Post by sorcha on Dec 20, 2009 19:44:09 GMT
Have any of the quilters here ever done a Dove in the Window? The one with diamond shapes? NOT the one with squares. It's also called 4 doves. I want to do this pattern, but I can't 'see' how to machine piece it. Anyone know if it's possible? (I am NOT going to hand piece)
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Post by jennieg on Dec 22, 2009 5:13:03 GMT
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Post by sorcha on Dec 22, 2009 13:40:14 GMT
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Post by maryinkentucky on Dec 22, 2009 16:17:45 GMT
Hi Sorcha, no I haven't done that because I've always avoided diamonds and the dreaded y-seam! But.............I've heard of a few ideas from watching quilt shows.
1. Do a search on Texas Star for ideas of how to machine piece the diamond shape.
2. I remember a technique for doing diamonds which really pieces two triangles together (thus it's more of a square shape turned side ways than an elongated triangle). Then the quilting emphasizes the diamond shape instead of two triangles. I think Eleanor Burns may have done it.
3. Another lady did a Monet water lily wall hanging. The background was all blue and green diamond shapes. She may be the one who figured out how to somehow sew strips together, then cut them on the bias to make diamonds. Then another lady did some tubes of diamonds (what do you call that Arizona Apache design?) but I had trouble sewing the ends of the tubes together to match the diagonal seams.
I'll have a quick Google before I log out.
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Post by maryinkentucky on Dec 22, 2009 16:45:53 GMT
Here’s the Monet water lily lady – Jan Krentz. She also does the Texas Star and Hunter Star. www.jankrentz.com/index.php**************************************************** I was confused about Seminole instead Apache. Simply Seminole with Dorothy Hanisko. You can Google pictures of this. ********************************************* This is the one I tried but couldn’t match up the slanted seams at the ends of the tubes. (I probably could now) Totally Tubular w/ Rita Hutchens www.hgtv.com/crafting/totally-tubular-quilts/index.htmlYou could probably get some of these books on interlibrary loan. They’re quite popular.
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Post by maryinkentucky on Dec 22, 2009 17:57:57 GMT
Here are some pretty good directions for assembling the blocks. But the directions are for hand-piecing. If you want to do this by machine, Google ***y-seam demonstration***. I like Kaye Wood. www.doveinthewindow.com/pdf/DITW.pdf
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Post by sorcha on Dec 22, 2009 18:20:13 GMT
Thank yous!
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Post by ragdall on Dec 25, 2009 11:19:43 GMT
I've been working on a plywood box for my eight-year-old grandson. Last summer he saw the one I'd made for his daddy about 25 years ago and asked me to make one for him. I hope he still wants it.
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Post by jennieg on Dec 27, 2009 1:10:31 GMT
That's really nice! What a great treasure chest.
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Post by ragdall on Dec 27, 2009 3:31:01 GMT
Thank you, Jennie.
He likes it, thank goodness.
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Post by sandrainsydney on Dec 27, 2009 10:06:18 GMT
One of my friends co-ordinates a craft group that only had paper crafts - Tole, Scrapbooking & cards so she invited me to teach sewing, so I've been teaching a class of felt chrissy decorations. Next year we'll be doing other felt stuff - needlework tools & felt toys & other small stuff in felt & material. I have zillions of patterns & books & even tho most of the students this year wanted to make paper stuff, I'll had a great time with my one or two students! Maybe next year we might get some new starters as the card class has grown too big ... pics on page 4 of my Craft album my.opera.com/sandra%20in%20sydney/albums/Recently I've been taking lots of pics of local areas & have posted some in Scenery album. sandra
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Post by ragdall on Dec 27, 2009 14:08:10 GMT
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