dbz98236 Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Tracye, I love your quilt, what is it called? Is there a pattern? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TracyeQ Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Originally posted by dbz98236 Tracye, I love your quilt, what is it called? Is there a pattern? Thank you Debbie! I should have posted this when I put up the picture, but I forgot. The barn is paper pieced from a pattern by Marcia Hohn of The Quilter's Cache. www.thequilterscache.com I added blue on both sides and used crayons to get the shading on the barn side and lower sky. I used black Marvy fabric markers to extend the roof of the barn over to the left cause it wasn't in the pattern. The rest around the barn is just fussy-cut fabric raw edged appliqued down using the techniques in Nancy Zeiman's (spelling?) Landscape quilting book (great book by the way). I had the chicken panels and just split them up and added sashing and corner blocks to try and get it to fit the finished center/barn square. Clear as mud? If not just email me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonnie Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 I think it also has something to do with using different battings all together. I have had good luck as TraceyQ, and some that were a total train wreck, but it was where the customer used all the scraps in her basket and used either different weights or different brands.... I would never thought to do it like Tracey, will next time I need to for my own use...I hate to either hand or machine stitch so they just seem to pile up and those big enough for wall hanging get a new life there and the other seem to go into the gun room for cleaning use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meg_marsh Posted September 10, 2009 Report Share Posted September 10, 2009 Great thread - & just in time for me.......... thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffq-lar Posted September 11, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 I had a nightmare job once with three different types/weights of batting sewn together with a big zig-zag in bright orange thread. Of course--there was enough light fabric in the top for the orange thread to show through like a big ol' stop sign. The customer didn't care at all and declined to replace the batting. Several years and much experience later and I would have no qualms in refusing the batting (and the quilt job as well.) Did I mention that one piece of the Frankenstein batting had enough dog hair on it to knit another whole dog? It makes a great story to share! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quiltmonkey Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Originally posted by ffq-lar ....Did I mention that one piece of the Frankenstein batting had enough dog hair on it to knit another whole dog? ..... Linda, Ewwwww! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kennan100 Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 The quilt is beautiful! That bat must have worried you all the way through it tho. Glad you were able to make the adjustments and finish it tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekah Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 Linda and Tracy beautiful quilts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bekah Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 so I have not learned the "no" word good enough yet. A customer brought me a long narrow piece of fluffy JoAnn's batting to cut and sew to size and I accepted it and only charged her $10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daisy2018 Posted September 11, 2009 Report Share Posted September 11, 2009 I have really good luck using a method from heirloom sewing with lace, I lay the pieces to be put together on a large table and mark across the seam line every foot of so with a blue marker, then I use a Bernina lace to lace edge foot, (must be like the velvet foot of Pat's) and stitch them together using a large zig zag, lining the blue marks up as I go, the batts stay even and measurements at the end are good. I only do it if the piece I'm putting on isn't too wide, otherwise it doesn't fit well in the Bernina machine. Usually about 36" added is about all I do, just to get past the too small queens:D:D Works best with cotton batts or poly with some scrim, the "wavy" batts I don't do, .....good quilting, Pat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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