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Haha, I am guilty as well. I have boxes and boxes of fabric. There's many possible quilts in the making in my fabricologist boxes.The quilt below is one I finished yesterday. It is a scrappy quilt constructed from scraps that I just cannot bring myself to throw out.
These are also known as Crumb Quilts" having been made from "crumbs". They are so much fun to do. Join the scraps into a big 30 inch square or bigger, cut down to 6 and a 1/2 inch squares, add a border, join and keep the leftover crumbs for the next big square. Repeat the process. Best part, you never know what the small squares are going to look like until they are cut and joined.This quilt, along with five other quilts that I have completed over the past year, is being donated to a charity group for distribution to Womens' Refuges, Palliative Care Organisations and support agencies in disaster areas.I can lose myself for most of the day in quilting therapy.7 -
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Bless you Annie. My daughter works as a childrens advocate in a womens refuge. It feels good knowing people are supporting the work she does1
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Thank you.Patchwork and Quilting is my "Lose Myself" therapy. I have been asked many times to sell my quilts. I cannot. To me it would not feel right. To donate, give away or gift brings me peace and pleasure.Thankyou for the work your daughter does in the womens' refuge. Throughout my life I have been blessed and fortunate that I have always had a roof over my head, a place to sleep and sew, a place to cook and eat and a safe place to rest and sleep.If I am able through the gift of my quilts to bring a feeling of love, care, warmth and safety to those who are in a situation that I have been fortunate never to have experience, then that is all the reward I need.5
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Crumb quilt pieces can be joined any old how. No set direction or order and no set cutting direction. The square size is a personal choice. I use a six and a half inch square ruler (because I have one). The border pieces around each block are cut two and a half inches, making the finished block (before joining to the other blocks) eight and a half inches.I sew one two and a half inch strip along the right hand side of each block and one two and a half inch strip with a corner stone at the base of each block. Makes the easiest sashing between the blocks. Every block lines up where is should! Quilt grows quickly.I am the lucky owner of one of these, a mid arm quilting frame with a Brother PQ1500sl sewing machine permantly mounted on the frame carriage. Saves my back and neck when shoving a queen size quilt through a domestic sewing machine
I am not all that proficient in the use of it. Free motion I mastered within a few days of setting it up, ruler work is a whole different ball game.
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Thanks for the great instructions @Annie C. I bought myself a HQ sweet sixteen after my sister passed away from a brain tumour, sister in law passed away from MND & 2 friends were diagnosed with different cancers last year. Life’s to short to not do what you want. I haven’t done a full size quilt yet though. This is from a friends cut off triangles I made into pinwheels and added scrappy strips
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A Sweet Sixteen! I am envious. My budget just did not stretch that far - well it did not stretch by a long way. However you are right on the "life is too short" philosophy, so we have to do what we want to do.Your pinwheels are beautiful and look at those points. I love how your sewing room is as tidy as my "Sewing Shack". My sewing room is a forty foot donga under a Kimberley roof (another roof some 3 feet above the donga) and of course an airconditioner.
I made this quilt for my husband's only granddaughter for her 18th birthday in August this year. The grandie chose the colours!6 -
I'm so impressed by all the sewers and your amazing creations! I wouldn't know where to begin.... ; )
Although not a sewer, I do play and compose music. And last week two of my piano compositions were played on national radio - ABC Classic. It was a dream come true! It was facilitated by an organisation called Dreams2Live4 who make 'dreams come true' for people with metastatic cancer. I have metastatic breast cancer.
If you're interested, you can hear the interview with me and the pieces played by Tamara-Anna Cislowska here: https://www.abc.net.au/classic/programs/classic-breakfast/classic-breakfast-mieka-tabart/14038000
This is my website: https://www.miekatabart.com/
And Soundcloud with some of my spoken poetry (more to come): https://soundcloud.com/user-162115846
If anyone is a piano player, the sheet music to the two piano pieces is available for free download from my website.
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I would like to emphasise how very much I enjoyed listening to your two piano compositions, "Un piccolo Momento" and " Sonata No 1".I listen to music in my sewing room while I lose myself in designing and sewing quilts, usually the great masters of classical music.Music provides the tempo and rhythm I need to achieve a smooth and consistent stitch whilst quilting.Your beautiful lilting pieces provided a soothing rhythm I need to move the sewing machine on the quilting frame's carriage over the quilt for free motion quilting designs.Thankyou.Annie4
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I have been working on this ALL year 😂 trying to get back into it to get it finished. First cross stitch so a few mistakes
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