{"id":3264,"date":"2010-09-20T13:39:05","date_gmt":"2010-09-20T17:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2010-09-20T13:39:05","modified_gmt":"2010-09-20T17:39:05","slug":"remember-that-quilt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mimikirchner.com\/blog\/archives\/2010\/09\/remember-that-quilt\/","title":{"rendered":"remember that quilt?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I pieced the top in January<\/a>. Fast forward to April<\/a>, when I pieced a back and basted it together with the batting.\u00c2\u00a0 Now it is September!<\/p>\n

I have quilted it. Yes- I was very nervous. I did not want to do that thread knot quilting method- (whatever the real name is, I don’t know) like I did on this one<\/a>. I knew I did not want to hand-quilt another full size quilt<\/a>. I wanted to finish this before\u00c2\u00a0 another 20 years had elapsed. And yes, I could have sent it out, but really, I am too cheap. And, I wondered if I would be able to let it go enough to accept what someone else did with the quilting. So what method did I use? I cut it into pieces that I could manage with my sewing machine, quilted them, and have sewn it back together. That took a lot of nerve and I’ve been talking myself into it for the past 5 months!<\/p>\n

Here it is, in 4 pieces. Two pieces that are the middle section and two pieces that are the sides.<\/p>\n

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I slit the seams on the front, but had to cut through the fabric on the back. And, I pretty much had to rearrange my whole studio. That wasn’t a bad thing though- one of my post-Renegade Market resolutions was that I needed to do a major clean in there. In the above photo, all the pieces are already quilted and I am ready to start the sew them back together process.<\/p>\n

Here, I am sewing the 2 middle pieces together. My plastic folding table (behind my machine in this pic) proved to be very useful. I move it to wherever I need some quilt weight-bearing.<\/p>\n

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Now the table is on the other side of the machine. I am getting ready to sew the backing together along the cut line. Yes, I lost about 1 inch in total quilt size for each of the cuts.<\/p>\n

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Here is stitching the backing together. I have pinned back the batting and the top fabric.<\/p>\n

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I did the top finishing seam by overlapping the pieces and carefully sewing down, as close to the edge as possible. My walking foot was invaluable. I could never have done this project without it. I know this because I started without it- since I don’t do much quilting, I don’t even think about it. So, I started and was unhappy and frustrated with the results I was getting- within about 3 minutes. Queue lightbulb over my head!<\/p>\n

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Here we are, all sewed back together and ready to trim off the excess batting and even out the edges.<\/p>\n

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Now, on to the finish. And here I want to mention the power of stopping a project when you are tired. Last night I got the quilt trimmed, pulled out my bins of fabric with something in mind for the edging. I found it, cut out 30 feet of bias strips, sewed them together and ironed them. Then I went to bed. At some point in the early morning I got the message (weird, huh?) that I had made a very off choice. All wrong. This morning, back to the bins with a clearer vision. I am back on track and have spent the morning moving forward. Hurray!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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