Thanks Sarah. Each square has some applique, but lOTS of embroidery! I'll show you a quilt that I am appliquing flowers all around the border!!! It will be nice when finished, but it is a pain, and I'm getting so tired of doing it!!!
Here is a square from my red and black crazy quilt. (I have different one in Triss's Latest Projects.) I appliqued her hat on, and her dress; made her a beaded fringe for her dress; and did lots of embroidery...flowers, and her face and hair.
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I always wanted to do a crazy quilt , till i saw all the embroidery detail that went into it. The embroidery is done just on the top layer right, not through the top batting and bottom.??
NO....you don't have to do all that stuff!!! Here is one I'm working on for one of my grandsons and I'm not going to add anything to it, just sew the squares together.
No! I machine sew all the pieces of fabric together!
Except on quilt which I'm sewing every piece together to make a star square, and then I am quilting each square as I go. Then I will machine stitch the top of the squares together in strips and then hand stich the back of all the squares together.
dang! those`are so cool. i like them better with the embroidey if i was to do one for myself tho'.
Oh I like all that pretty stuff on one for myself, or any female. Those plain was could be done in rich fabrics, though, like velvet and satin, and really would have to do all that hand stuff to look pretty; but even so would become more gorgeous with embroidery and applique on them!!
The unembellished ones can be done in plaids, like what I'm doing, or out of wools; for a homespun look.
I am going to use an unbleashed muslin backing for my grandsons, whih I am going to tea dye. You CAN tea dye the whole quilt!! Makes it look older.
Those are really neat too, Shirls. How do you sew the pre-quilted squares together and not have a seam showing? I've always been confused by that. You're crazy quilts reminds me a lot of a paper technique called iris folding. I use it in my scrapbooks quite a bit, so I really like it!!
You have to put two squares with the tops together then sew JUST the two tops together...NOT the filler, NOT the backing. Do a strip of those the width you want. Tthen sew all the strips together the same way. When you look at the quilt from the front it will be all sewn together. When you look at it from the back it will be a mess!! I sew the back, ENDS going across, and then the long edge of each ROW going across. I tuck the batting in and turn under one edge, pinning it down over the raw edge of the other square. Then whip-stitch it, or sew it neatly..hiding the stitches. After you get the rows done, doing one square to the other, THEN you do each whole long row across, tucking under and pinning down each LONG row, and stitching it.
Is all of that understandable? It's hard for me to describe something like that in writing, not knowing if the other person is visualizing the same thing I am. If you want more explaination you can PM me and I'll give you my phone number.
I think you're right, Wrennie. BUT the only way I can machine quilt is if the pieces are small. I've hand quilted one to many quilts as far as my fingertips are concerned. It may just be easier to whipstitch a seam together instead of going through the top/bottom/batting layers.
I love making the tops, but don't really enjoy trying to get the needle through all layers to quilt. But those individual squares ARE quilted through, on that star one.
So, when quilting the squares, are you careful not to get within a quarter inch or so of the edges for your seam allowance when sewing it all together?
No! I machine sew all the pieces of fabric together!
Except on quilt which I'm sewing every piece together to make a star square, and then I am quilting each square as I go. Then I will machine stitch the top of the squares together in strips and then hand stich the back of all the squares together.
finaly got a pic of my stars shirls!
i havent worked on em since ive been doing my craft for the swap, but now that im done i should start on the stars again, :wink: how are yours going?
thanks jiffy, i made that all outta scrap meterial, didnt buy a pice of frabrick for it a couple seems came undone so i had to fix it, still need to put the back on it guess i sewed to close to the edges n it didnt hold
Christy, that quilt is beautiful!!! You go girl on those stars!
I haven't done anything on ANY of my quilts I have shown in a LOOOOOOng time! My stars are all sitting in a box....just waiting for more. I don't know how any of you get anything done, being on this forum!! This wonderful place has simply been my downfall!!!!
Is there a 'rehab' for forum addicts??!! I need one bad!!!
here is one of my christmas projects from last year. I sent everyone a card to send me their favorite photos and i would make them a wall hanging of my choice. This is a cardinal that like a red truck so much he pecked at the the side mirrors daily. I love putting pictures on quilts. I am now making a quilt for my daughter who won a moose lottery last year and actually got one! I am putting the borders on it now. It rained all day here Friday and I really enjoyed getting back into my sewing room. all of your projects are lovely.
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I can see the quilt ok on my post. I did move my photo around to sub albums Sorry you can't see it should i try to post it again. I guess they couldn't see my goose picture on the other forum either
I am strong when I am on your shoulders, you raised me up to be more than I can be.
These are some coasters I made with my serger. The lines and the edging are done on the serger and the colors are done with fabric markers. I also "colored" black stitch lines because the stitching showed the fabric underneath. The fabric is white flowers on a white background and the flowers absorbed the fabric marker differently than the background.
I think these would look just a good with regular plain white fabric. I also think these could be made on a sewing machine using a wide stitch and a stitch to finish the edge.
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