Quilting Bee anyone?

[cccamper]

alright....I'll try to find the picture again on the computer and post it...haven't done anything to it since the original post however. I do have some dinosaur fabric that might be incorporated into it. Sorry, I dump pics pretty regularly. Doug

oh you don't need to dig it up. visualizing is good enough. use the time on something new. you are incredibly creative!

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[vedamen]

I wish I could take credit for this but this scrap quilt was made by my mom just to fit the side bed of my Casita

It is so much fun to look at a piece of the quilt and remember other projects my mom has done.



I also love the backs of her quilts


She will make a pillow case for me to go with the quilt after she finishes the quilt she is making for my sister's Casita.

[Miriam C.]

I love colorful scrap quilts and that one is beautiful!
Thanks for sharing it and to the playground.

[CASHCOW]

Just have to take a few lines to brag a bit. Mike and I are so proud of how my quilts did at our Tri State Fair. Here are two projects I did this year after I finished making the quilt for the teardrop.

This one is the quilt I made for our bed. It is king size and Mike thought I was never going to get it finished. I entered it in our Fair last week and won a first place ribbon for it.
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This is a picture of the wall hanging I quilted to match the king size quilt. Mike had this old window planter and I painted and crackled it, then we put the wall hanging into it. It won second place in the wall hanging division.
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[vedamen]

How beautiful I know how much time my mom puts into just a double or single bed quilt. I can't even imagine the hours of piecing and quilting that and the wall hanging as well. You must be so proud of those pieces of art

[Miriam C.]

Brenda that is so deserving of the blue ribbon! Totally beautiful!

[martha24]

Here's my first completed quilt. A baby quilt (crib size) for my daughter's fiance's new niece. Last year I took some quilt classes through adult ed and I still need to work on my teardrop quilt. I'm going to work on it at the same time I'm taking a "string" quilt class both being made out of 1930 replica fabric.



This last year disappeared fast. Next July my daughter is getting married and I'm making her dress - fitted, strapless and with a number of gores. I've got the muslin of the dress made (including boning) which I made the pattern from other patterns. The fitting took countless hours. I had to get that part done as she has now (with our help) moved to Sacramento and is going to school there. So I had better get busy on the quilts because the beginning of the year it is going to back to sewing a wedding dress.
But it is worth it as it will be beautiful and not cost thousands.

[Miriam C.]

I don't usually like a lot of pink but some little girl is gonna love that one.

Wedding gown I did a bad job on one and a fairly good job on the second. Not likely to do another. Welcome back Martha. We missed you!

[martha24]

I'm not a pink person either, but the mom of the almost 2 month old baby girl is, which is why I did pink. For a little girl the quilt turned out really sweet.

I've been around the forum, but just haven't had the time to post much. I haven't even had time to finish staining one shelf in the teardrop and finishing it. This next year is probably going to be more of the same with a wedding on the horizon. I've never done a wedding dress before, but I have done a lot of sewing in my life. I'm not expecting any huge problems, just very time consuming as it will need a fair amount of hand basting or sewing.

[Miriam C.]

I'm not a pink person either, but the mom of the almost 2 month old baby girl is, which is why I did pink. For a little girl the quilt turned out really sweet.

I've been around the forum, but just haven't had the time to post much. I haven't even had time to finish staining one shelf in the teardrop and finishing it. This next year is probably going to be more of the same with a wedding on the horizon. I've never done a wedding dress before, but I have done a lot of sewing in my life. I'm not expecting any huge problems, just very time consuming as it will need a fair amount of hand basting or sewing.

A dress is a dress, it is the amount of "golly geeeezzzzeee" that takes time. The truth is both the dresses I did were needed in a hurry. Someone else was supposed to do them and it got messed up. If you have a mock up you will do great! Now you know we are gonna want pictures.

[martha24]

I guess pics of a wedding dress is a mini hijack of quilts, but both are sewing.

This is the front and back of the muslin. At the bottom I had to piece the muslin as I miscalculated the length between the skirt going out and heels etc. That's what muslins are for to figure out all the problems. When I'm ready to make the dress, I take the muslin apart and it becomes the pattern. The dress isn't hemmed either. On the real dress it will get some kind of ribbon or lace where the empire seam is. The dress will be made of natural white shantung silk. Eventually when the dress is done I will post the finished dress.

[BILLYL]

This is beautiful work and something you should all be proud of.

My mother and her sisters quilted in the winter months. My Mom's oldest sister was a silk weaver and when "THE GIRLS" got together Aunt Annie was always be checking her younger sisters sewing - and if not to her standard she would take her needle and pick them out. I remember she would always be picking on the youngest sister - Helen. As I can remember there was always a lively discussion.................


Great work............... Wished I could do it.



Bill

[Miriam C.]

Martha that is just plain beautiful. Even in muslin. Thanks for sharing it.

[Catoosa Grani]

All of these quilts, (wall hangings, baby quilts, and kings), are just beautiful. They all deserve recognition and "ribbons". People who have never made a quilt don't realize the work and time it takes to put one together. A finished one gives one a sense of great pride, no matter how it looks.

That wedding dress is really going to be something. I was surprised that the addition on the bottom was not part of the pattern. It seemed to just add something else to the pattern. You are doing a great job.

Grani

[martha24]

Thanks for the kind words. Miriam, Bill & Grani.

The baby quilt was machine quilted so it went alot faster. I would still be hand quilting if I was doing it that way.

With the wedding dress I started with a simple pattern with princess seams and changed everything. My daughter is artistic and it is her ideas with me making it work. The general idea came from a Vera Wang dress she tried on in a bridal shop and she changed it to suit her. My daughter is 5ft tall & her general clothes size is a zero but not quite the same proportions as the patterns so everything needs adjustments. For the length I cut down the pattern, but in my calculations I didn't realize how much extra length would be needed in going out instead of straight down & I just cut off too much. That's the beauty of muslin all the adjustments can be made before the actual fabric is cut.



A great forum for sewing including quilting is PatternReview.com It has a quilter's corner under the message boards. I've done a lot of sewing in my life, but that's where I found which books were musts for sewing wedding dresses.
http://sewing.patternreview.com/news