Thursday, May 31, 2012

Taking over the lounge room

The size of this quilt is scaring me, it's bigger than our living room rug! That's AFTER I trimmed those edges - I'm glad I did and it was pretty easy thanks to my square ruler.

I'm so intimidated to quilt this on my sewing machine since I have only quilted cot sized quilts before. I am considering doing it in two pieces and then joining them - kind of a quilt as you go technique. I know I read a blog last year where the quilt was quilted in 3 pieces and joined together - I just can't remember where it was.

Maybe I should just wait until I get my new, bigger, fancier sewing machine. I've got time to think about it as the batting won't be here for a few weeks since it's on backorder.

Anyway, I've got the blocks labelled into rows and ready to piece together. Does anyone remember reading the tutorial I mentioned or something similar?

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7 comments:

  1. Kris31 May, 2012 18:26

    Whoa! That is big! Sorry I don't know of the tutorial.

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  2. Christy31 May, 2012 19:45

    I saw a tute on running with scissors, but mum has free motioned queen size before on a standard machine with no prob. I've done regular quilting on a queen with a reg machine. It's all in how you roll the quilt. just start, you'll be fine. I also pin my blocks to an existing quilt and roll it up in between the final piecing, just incase I need to pack it away before finishing,

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  3. Rachaeldaisy31 May, 2012 21:37

    If you do quilt in pieces do it in three not halves. The halfway line will be in the middle of your quilt whereas if you do it in 3 pieces the join marks won't be as obvious. I haven't seen the tutorial you mean but it sounds good!

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  4. Marian-Lady Face01 June, 2012 03:05

    That looks wonderful. I don't know the tutorial, sorry. But however you end up quilting it it will be lovely. I get scared of huge quilts and usually end up hand quilting them which takes a billion years...so I don't think I'd recommend that. But I love your picture.

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  5. Mrs Flying Blind...01 June, 2012 06:33

    Check out the Lily's Quilts flickr thread, when we did the dresden QAL there was a lot of talk about QAYG, as the blocks were huge! x

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  6. leanne01 June, 2012 09:55

    those bowties look great - love the way you've placed them - can't help out on the quilting issue but I've heard that having a small table next to you helps with the weight of the quilt :)

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  7. Shan01 June, 2012 23:47

    I am sure it will look great and you will do a great job quilting it. I would love to see how you decide to quilt it.

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