General chat thread for BB girls who like sewing

[maz]

there must eb one of those quilters for dummies book, like the internet for dummies book.

google wil be your friend maz

yes found the dummies book....thinking of getting it and google..OMG Ive benenon here for 2 hours tonight and my head is SPINNING

Maz - whats sort of quilt? patchwork or applique?

Spotlight have easy quilt patterns - and classes - usually for both patchwork and applique.

Sampler quilts are good for learning patchwork basics as you get lots of different blocks and learn different techniques.

However they tend to be large (the finished quilts)

I reckon your best bet would be to get a kit thats easy for beginners. You can either get just a pattern and instructions or you can get all the fabric as well.
Let me know if you want the names of some specific quilting places, but if your spotlight has a craft section then they will likley have staff who know most of the local quilters anyway.

oh hon...you have taught me so much
Id love to make and start something basic. I have questions

do I back each piece of 'patch' that I sew together?
Do I need to use wadding?
how the hell do you get all the sewn edges straight and in line???

[kawazuki]

how the hell do you get all the sewn edges straight and in line???

patients and luck, i find..

i only hadn quilt for this reason, but will be going to machine quilting soon sooo much quicker


i dont know if i do it right but i dont back every piece. i back in larger blocks adn find once i have then tacked the wadding on and gone over with teh machine for the over stitch it all meshes in nicely.


i dont have any i had previously made as they were gifts and an exs mum helped me..

[Fleur]

I have questions

do I back each piece of 'patch' that I sew together?
Do I need to use wadding?
how the hell do you get all the sewn edges straight and in line???

Maz, I started with a ruler & rotary cutter. I cut squares of equal size & joined them in strips, so for example I would join 6 squares in a row, then join the rows together so I had one big square.
Wadding I found the thinner the better, as I was quilting it myself....
the back was one single piece uct to fit. Make the wadding a bit bigger than your top & back (my mistake with my first quilt )
edges... just make sure the seam allowance is exactly the same each time you join a square.

I fluked it I think

ETA - there is a quilting method, I think it's called puff quilting? where you can wad & back each individual square as you do it, then join all of those together. It looks really effective but I haven't tried it - I can't get my head around all getting those puffy squares joined

[Pandora]

I piece the whole quilt top first, cut the backing piece to the same size, and the batting to the same size.
Then I lays the three together like a sandwich with the batting in the middle.
Then I baste it toget her about 10cms apart, both vertical and horizonal.
Then quilt it and last off do the binding on the edge.

I've only done machine piecing, stitch in the ditch machine quilting and hand quilting for the other quilting stitches.

[Nelle]

Okay - I am absolutely NOT kicking you quilters out of the treehouse I promise! I just wondered - would it work to have a Quilting chatter thread? If I am being over-tidy then throw something at me that's okay.

[Ryatha]

Nelle... I'm with you I have no idea what they are talking about, but I am slowly learning... let them stay... they might teach us something