Crazy Quilt |
This is another early quilt, where I had no idea what I was doing. I
didn't even know that 'stitches per inch' means the stitch on top and the
stitch on the bottom' (so you count the stitches on one side & multiply
by two), so I thought I was doing twice as badly as I actually was.I used both polyester and cotton fabrics. And guess what? The polyester lasts forever. If you ever make a quilt that's going to have a lot of hard use, do it with polyester fabrics and don't worry about 'tradition'. |
.Almost all the cotton fabrics are sun-rotted (so it's either under an alley cat or thrown out by now).I saved scraps and sewed them together at random, and then trimmed them to same-size blocks and after a year or so of making doll's clothes and other things had enough for a quilt. The backing is red polyester, deliberately left large and folded over to make the binding in the front. It's not traditional, either, but some quilters now accept this method (It might not allowed for 'show' quilts, though). It's far stronger and saves time and work, and you know it will match. The only difficulty is that since you have to allow for shrinkage as you quilt the backing, you need to allow a lot more excess in order to be able to do it. I started out with about 10 inches too much all the way around. And yes, that's my foot in the photo. This is Florida, who wears shoes? |
| Here's a photo of the whole thing. Trust me,
you don't want a close-up, a lot of patches are so worn out the batting's
sticking through. |
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