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flummoxicated) wrote2009-04-05 06:55 pm
flummoxicated) wrote2009-04-05 06:55 pm
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Inlaid Tile Quilt
(More than) a few years ago, I took a quilt class. The name of the class was "Fabulous Fifteen" and, as you may have guessed, we learned 15 patterns - they were related, each week we selected one of the assorted patterns for that class. For a variety of reasons, I didn't finish a single quilt from the project. This unfinished-ness started bothering me, so I dug out the quilt parts and the directions and decided to do something about it...
I decided to finish up the quilt pattern called "Inlaid Tile", which was designed by Mary Ellen Hopkins. For some reason, I planned for all of the quilts I started for this class to be at least queen size, so the first decision I made was to scale back. Also for some reason, I didn't wait to start cutting the strip sets together, so I was left with a project that was all over the place in terms of completion. This was also a problem since I no longer have the machine I started sewing with. At least, that is what I'm blaming for the wonky, uneven spots. But at any rate, the top is finished, except for the quilting. I promise not to let the top languish again so I have to tend to that soon. (I confess I'm one of those quilters who likes designing and piecing but not quilting.)
I decided to finish up the quilt pattern called "Inlaid Tile", which was designed by Mary Ellen Hopkins. For some reason, I planned for all of the quilts I started for this class to be at least queen size, so the first decision I made was to scale back. Also for some reason, I didn't wait to start cutting the strip sets together, so I was left with a project that was all over the place in terms of completion. This was also a problem since I no longer have the machine I started sewing with. At least, that is what I'm blaming for the wonky, uneven spots. But at any rate, the top is finished, except for the quilting. I promise not to let the top languish again so I have to tend to that soon. (I confess I'm one of those quilters who likes designing and piecing but not quilting.)
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i have so many unfinished quilt projects, eek...
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My grandmother quilted when I was a kid and I loved being included and allowed to fetch for the quilting ladies and sometimes stitch on the beautiful quilts while the ladies sewed and gossiped and drank cocktails from highball glasses.
Maybe someday I'll even put together a quilt for myself. I used to design fanciful things on graph paper and the quilting ladies always encouraged me no matter how outlandish or impractical my designs. I wanted to do an MC Esher fish or birds quilt :)
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