It is like a thorn in my side...
02-23-2011, 06:34 PM
#102
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Location: Port Lavaca, TX
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Originally Posted by oma66
I am making a Civil War quilt. It calls for 25 blocks for a queen size, but I am so tired of it already that I am struggling to finish it. I made 16 blocks, each block is 15 1/5 sq. Each block will be sashed a second time with the same fabric as the first sashing and with corner post. My thought is to stripe the sashing - the camel color with a narrow stripe of black in the middle. I want it to cover a queen size bed. I will add a narrow border and a wider border to the outside - using two of the fabric in the blocks.
Have you ever worked on a quilt that you just felt you did not want to finish ...but did anyway? I am finishing the quilt, but without joy. Help!!
Have you ever worked on a quilt that you just felt you did not want to finish ...but did anyway? I am finishing the quilt, but without joy. Help!!
Sewing a center stripe can be a real bear, because if they are just a hair off, they are going to look crooked.
Be sure and square off each block first too, even if it is just slivers, so your corners will meet. I think you have put a lot of work in it already and it will be a really really great quilt. Not so many civil war quilts had sashing anyway!
02-23-2011, 07:08 PM
#107
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: South Dakota
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Originally Posted by oma66
I am making a Civil War quilt. It calls for 25 blocks for a queen size, but I am so tired of it already that I am struggling to finish it. I made 16 blocks, each block is 15 1/5 sq. Each block will be sashed a second time with the same fabric as the first sashing and with corner post. My thought is to stripe the sashing - the camel color with a narrow stripe of black in the middle. I want it to cover a queen size bed. I will add a narrow border and a wider border to the outside - using two of the fabric in the blocks.
Have you ever worked on a quilt that you just felt you did not want to finish ...but did anyway? I am finishing the quilt, but without joy. Help!!
Have you ever worked on a quilt that you just felt you did not want to finish ...but did anyway? I am finishing the quilt, but without joy. Help!!
02-23-2011, 07:32 PM
#109
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Pa.
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I know how you feel I have been working on a Steelers Quilt for three years it is still a wip lol I donn't like the steelers colors so it is hard to work on. One day DH went to the LQS with me and asked if anyone wanted to finish a Steelers quilt for him. They just looked at me and laughed. they know how I feel about the colors I just can't work on it
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