BethDurand Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 I've just quilted what I hope will be the last of these, they were the club from 2008 I think. Of the 4 or so that I've quilted, not a one of them has not had wavy borders. Anyone else quilted one of these that worked well? Just frustrated, but reading the chat has helped. Thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Primitive1 Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Sounds like that group needs a handout on how to correctly apply borders...I just had one that must have been just shy of a ruffled curtain. I really think most people don't know that they need to measure, they just sew the border on and then cut off what is left over at the end....piano keys is my solution! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra Darlington Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 I have one here that I pieced in Thimbleberries Club. Shall I send it to you for the quilting? LOL - just kidding. I don't know what I was thinking when I signed up for 2 years in a row for the T Club(not this year, though) because I didn't make half of the projects and the kits are piled up here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreadWaggle Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Beth, I quilted on this summer and the borders were not wavy. I was SHOCKED! But I have nicknamed this customer the stepford piecer. She also had perfectly ironed seams, not a single thread hanging off the back and all her points were perfect. YIKES! I have 3 more to quilt after the beginning of the year and they are all wavy. I have not even started piecing mine, but at least it is not a UFO. It may however be a project never started. I enjoyed the first one that I did. It was custom and I had a blast quilting that house. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamarack Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 I have done about 4 of these quilts too and know more are on the way. Had no problems with the borders on them as the customers were all guild members and they know how to piece. I had a lot of fun custom quilting these ones and quilted each one differently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BethDurand Posted November 13, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Well it's good to know that somewhere out there, someone has well pieced thimbleberries. I think the ladies I've quilted them for were just tired of them, and the quilt was so big that they had a hard time measuring correctly for borders. Let's just hope that's the problem anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra Darlington Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 I'd love to see some of the quilting you ladies did on that quilt, to give me some ideas. Maybe in January I will pull mine out and quilt it. I saw a few that had flowers embroidered in the windowsill boxes and a house number embroidered on the door, and a few little extra touches that made the quilt more interesting. I need to do something like that on my quilt before quilting it. The longarmer who did some for my guild member friends just did a panto. I forget which one, but she felt that custom was not needed and a panto would be just fine. I'm glad to hear you did custom, as that is what I want to do on mine. The panto was fine, but did not enhance the piecing and overall design of the quilt...IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tamarack Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Oh I had fun on the ones i did as i knew the ladies. Quilted a window box with flowers and vines for one who loves gardening, put different siding and shingles on each and one I even quilted a pie in the window as the woman loved to bake pies! She loved that. If the customer doesn't want to pay for custom i have suggested half custom. I just meandered the large borders and then custom quilted the center blocks. That is a great compromise on this quilt as the fabrics in the border are so busy you don't really see the quilting. Sandra, I have pictures on my blog of four of them, one in March, two in June and one Sept, if you want to see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 I quilted 2 for customers, the quilts both had wavy borders. Corey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mary Beth Posted November 13, 2009 Report Share Posted November 13, 2009 Beth...where have you been??? I was just about to call you to make sure you were still amoung us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra Darlington Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Thanks for sharing your T'berries quilt pictures. Your quilting is perfect on them. I will need to remember to check your blog again when I am ready to start mine. Thanks so much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chocoholic Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 I am the Thimbleberries leader at my LQS and I have to say that the patterns do not do a good job of instructing how to correctly measure and apply borders. I teach my clubs the 'correct' way to measure, pin and sew on borders, but if the leader does not expand on what is written and give good border instructions, quilters can easily get it wrong. Also, some years the fabric specs do not call for enough fabric to cut the borders on the lengthwise grain. I usually buy extra to do them on the lengthwise grain, and tell people how much that is should they want to spend the extra to be able to cut their borders that way, but often the pattern calls for crosswise cutting. Just a couple of reasons why you might be seeing so many wavy borders on the Thimbleberries quilts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThreadWaggle Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 Sandra, One of my friends has some pictures of the H&G quilt that she did. It is where I got some of the inspiration for the one I did this summer. There are multiple post on her blog about this quilt, but here is a link to the last post about this quilt. http://bethanyquilts.blogspot.com/2009/07/quilting-aroundlast-pics-of-epic.html The one that I did is pictured on my blog as well. I did it in August. My customer did 2 of these quilts. The first one was quilted with a panto by another APQSer and is pretty. The nice thing about this quilt is that it can look good with either a panto or custom depending on what the customer is looking for. The borders are really busy so the idea of custom in the middle and an allover freehand of the borders is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAQuilts Posted November 14, 2009 Report Share Posted November 14, 2009 I just finished my T House and Garden Quilt. Lots of Quilting Pictures on my blog. Don't have a Pix of the entire quilt quilted just toooo big Terry http://terryquilter.blogspot.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra Darlington Posted November 15, 2009 Report Share Posted November 15, 2009 Thanks, Angela and Terry. I love your ideas (and your friend Bethany's). I had forgotten how large that quilt really is! I only have an 11 foot frame, so I may have to consider other options. Hummm. What was I thinking when I pieced this top??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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