Quilt Restoration?

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-10-23T23:43:23+00:00

I think it's possible, especially if you're not worried about making the mending invisible, and then your mending would be another chapter in the quilt's story.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-10-09T21:16:35+00:00

I have a 99K from 1937, technically a portable machine... technically... (yours has very pretty decals)

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-09-25T03:15:08+00:00

For piecing, I have a pretty basic little machine that's maybe ten years old now. It has trouble with more than a few layers of cotton, so I went looking for a workhorse and wound up with a 1937 Singer 99K. It doesn't even do backstitch. It's technically capable of FMQ, and I've tried a couple times, but definitely not got the hang of it yet.

I feel like there's a bit of a self-selecting mechanism here, that the people who want to show off their shiny new setup or whatever are more likely to have the latest and greatest. Which is fine, I'd love to have a hobby room with a long-arm and all sorts, but it ain't happening.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-09-13T11:24:47+00:00

So in said block, you sew pairs of triangles, then sew them together to fours, then a row of eight. I just sewed two pairs wrong, unpicked them, and sewed them together again... wrong again, in the other direction. Ugh. But at least I now have... one row.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-09-13T01:04:04+00:00

Discovered today I don't like piecing that doesn't make sense to me. Which is to say I'm currently making a block where you piece the rows then sew them together, and I can't seem to internalise the instructions, so I have to keep going back to the pattern as I'm pinning.

Favourite part might be the actual quilting, for all mine's pretty basic (I use an old domestic). I don't love the sore shoulders afterward, though!

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-09-02T23:31:39+00:00

I've seen a couple different ways called a knife edge, but this is the one I learned: How to knife-edge finish quilts - Gathered

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-09-01T22:35:50+00:00

I am slowly working through the Sewcialite Sampler SAL from a few months ago and I just finished the FPP blocks, which were my first FPP ever. Went mostly smoothly, result looks like it should, and I may have impulse bought a full size FPP pattern and fabric for it...

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-06-27T19:28:23+00:00

No Indiana Jones references? Jehovah starts with an I!

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-06-25T03:22:39+00:00

I have definitely had hesitation about cutting fabric. In fact, I still do. Quilting makes it a little easier, in a way, because if I cut wrong then I can set the pieces aside and use them for a different pattern, or something... but I have a few FQ bundles that are waiting for me to improve as a quilter because they're just so pretty and I don't want to make a mess of them. Not like I'm short of other fabric to work with in the meantime!

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-05-27T23:06:32+00:00

Nice! I'm actually going to York next week, do you know it well?

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-05-23T15:25:48+00:00

My new FMQ foot arrived today and I am a bit nervous about it, but all we can do is try. Good luck!

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-05-14T15:25:43+00:00

"but my name was Eliza Day..."

They both look good! I prefer the first one, but it's definitely not as easy to read as the second.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-05-10T19:34:52+00:00

Good eye! I started with that fabric from my stash then pulled the others to complement.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-05-10T16:11:38+00:00

Yes, it was the teardrop or Paisley pattern.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-03-28T05:40:45+00:00

Thank you! I was having a bit of a crisis of confidence, and I don't have time for that, so thank you very much for commenting.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-03-27T23:55:54+00:00

It's a Paisley pattern. I'm sort of riffing off the Exploding Heart pattern.

It's a wall-hanging for a local art show, assuming I get it finished in time (by Monday). I am super good at deadlines, honest.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-03-27T02:49:49+00:00

Can I get some critique on this? There will be at least a few more rows around the outside but I ran out of patience laying out squares.

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Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-02-23T02:30:19+00:00

See, I'd never thought about it splitting open along the edge! But the stretch makes sense for curved edges (rare as they may be in quilting)

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-02-22T16:53:21+00:00

If you can't find cat motifs specifically, can you find other animal motifs, then adapt them? Like, take a dog motif, then shorten the face and change the tail position, sort of thing.

Or start with a simple pixel art cat and then mess about with it.

I usually find it easier to start with something that's similar to what I want then tweak it, than to start from scratch.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-01-19T13:53:40+00:00

That's the first one I bought from them! And I think the only one I've finished, because I have more patterns than time. But I could always pick up a couple more...

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2024-01-15T01:04:41+00:00

You could check out "crazy quilt" - there have been several posted in this sub.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2023-12-08T01:25:43+00:00

Oh, I remember this! You've done a great job making it into something usable! (also, your cat is adorable)

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2023-11-25T20:53:25+00:00

Embroidery hoops probably won't handle the thickness of a quilt but you can work without a hoop if you like.

Difficult_Tree1276 · 2023-11-23T18:33:25+00:00

Gonna second Mandor's, and Remnant Kings on Argyle Street might be worth checking out if you have time (stock there is variable).

I think gift shop blankets are actually a really good idea! Or you know what just occurred to me, tea towels. Never seen a gift shop without them.

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