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2 of 2 quilts pieced by Debra: Basketball and hoops - for my nieces who are sisters and play basketball
Circles, circles everywhere & not a square in sight.
Oct 09: Quilt arrived. Oct 17: Programmed. Oct 18: Cutting batting. Nov 04: Fixing top & bottom leaders. Nov 05: Backing is prepped ready to load. Nov 06: Backing is loaded. Showing how leaders work. On this quilt, only needed them on top & bottom with the backing centered between them. Nov 09: Top is prepped ready to load. Have a pending question about the batting. Nov 10: Quilting. Nov 11: Quilted. Nov 12: Final pictures. Will ship tomorrow since today is Veterans Day--a public holiday held on the anniversary of the end of World War I (November 11) to honor US veterans and victims of all wars. It replaced Armistice Day in 1954.
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1 of 2 quilts pieced by Debra: Basketball and hoops - for my nieces who are sisters and play basketball
Jul 07: First contact. Swoon quilt top is pieced with standard quilting cotton (color) the white background is sheets from my GGMA's stash, which seemed like a good idea at the time but the fabric is very dense. I went through several needles when piecing (Debra). Jul 09: Pictures and more quilting details/ideas. Jul 11: Thinking Baptist Fan. Posted overlays on Playground. Jul 22: Quilt arrived. Wow! I was way off on my guesstimate about the quilt block sizes. Jul 26: Silver thread, Dream Orient batting, 6 arcs, 1 inch spacing, no gap between rows, arcs curving up to the right. Jul 28: Cut batting which took a long time because the Bamboo/Silk batting requires delicate handling. Jul 29: Prepped. Loaded. Basting. Quilting. Deb reminded me of her first words about the fabrics as I discovered that for myself. Tough stuff. though very thin sheets are!! An open seam, a pin prick that left a dot of blood on the outer sashing...all in a day's work yet still in the category of unforeseeable circumstances. Jul 30: Still quilting. And finished! All pictures posted including the Quilt Gallery.
Jul 07: First contact. Jul 09: Pictures and quilting details/ideas. Jul 10-19: Been posting lots of quilt EQ7 renditions & overlays on the playground. Even did a quilt sample to see if the High Seas pattern &/or wool batting would overwhelm the pinwheels. Both did. Jul 19: Changed our plan to SINE waves (working on density) & Dream Orient batting to get as much softness & drape as possible. Jul 20: Ordered the batting. Quilt top is here. Pinwheels are 3.5" * sashing is 1" so I need to redo the overlays. Jul 21: We now have a pattern & density plan. Batting is here. Thread selection is next & final step. Jul 26: Second pattern change. Now EZ Waves. Jul 28: Cut batting. Jul 31: Ordered some So Fine! prewound bobbins yesterday. While waiting for those to come in, I am testing the pattern on that earlier sample. Yep! I am taking some of it out, replacing some of the wool batting with Dream Orient & quilting it to see what happens. Magic, I hope. This is such a beautiful & large quilt, I want to get it right. Can't even imagine how much time and work and care Debra has sewn into it while working 2, wait 3 jobs. Hey, cost of living in CA is through the roof & so is fabric. Besides, Deb has agreed I can keep this one (as long as I swear it was lost in the return mail). Not to worry though as I prefer quilts that have very little drop if any--super sensitive toe ever since I dropped a new roll of W&N batting on it several years ago. Finished a small sample. Aug 03: Prepped (squared the backing). Aug 04: Loaded. Quilting. Aug 05: Quilted. |
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