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I’ve been vaguely thinking about quilting
I did it ages and ages ago, I think my elementary school had a quilting club thing where we could quilt instead of going to recess maybe? I do remember it being enjoyable
I have no idea if the quilts I made are even around anymore
but it might be cool to get into it.
I have been trying to take up quilting for months now. But I don’t exactly know where to start. I want to do crazy quilting. And I guess you can just… do that? But I don’t– I can’t get a clear picture in my head and don’t know how to start. And I want to try quilt-as-you-go so I don’t have to try to shove the whole thing under my regular-ass sewing machine. (Strictly speaking, I *have* done *that* style of quilting for the yurt paneling and it is obnoxious.)
I just. I don’t know where to start or how to. I don’t know. Logisticize it. I dunno.
Anyway. Please do take it up, and show me how, lol.
the funny thing is, we were hand quilting. and like obvious we were like ten or whatever but I remember getting a decent way through the quilts. And they had the backings and stuff already? idek
maybe it would take forever but I really like the idea of hand quilting. it wouldn’t be super complicated but I think it would be fun. I know we have a sewing machine in the house and it works okay but I dislike using sewing machines because they never seem to be comfortable to use. and like. that’s just how it goes I guess
googling quilting things, this all looks way too complicated so I might just go with what we were doing then and just….make it up
I think we just did one solid piece of fabric and put the emphasis on the hand stitching which makes a lot of sense considering we were a bunch of 10 year oldsthat’s why I’m scratching my head at the quilting on the internet because it all seems very complicated and once I have to start really measuring things to be precise is when I start to lose interest
Yeah I feel the same way! My mother-not-in-law and her sister both do a lot of quilting and for them the real art seems to lie in the piecing. Like, taking perfectly good swathes of immaculate brand-new fabric, cutting it all up into tiny pieces, then sewing it back together with tiny precise seam allowances into elaborate patterns, and then piecing all of that together, and– oh my god that all seems horrible. Just– horrible! If you have big pieces of fabric why cut them into little ones?????!!!
I want to take little pieces of fabric that I already have, and piece them together into bigger ones because a big piece of fabric is more useful than a little one. That’s like, the whole point, right??
And then I want to put them on a backing, with some stuffing so it’s squishy, and then tack them all together so they don’t move around. That’s what quilting’s for, right?
I want to use a machine for some of it though because hand-quilting takes forgoddamnever. But… I mean, you’re not wrong, and hand-stitching is real satisfying. If it was small things, not like, bed-size quilts, it wouldn’t take that long.
I do this but I don’t know if I ever posted the pictures. The crazy quilts. I don’t use backing or anything just more quilting. Turn it over and there’s another quilt. Stuff it with smaller quilts.
When you do that though, and you sleep under it, it is 10,000F. It is the hottest goddamn thing in the world. I get the night sweats. If I lived in a house where it was cold I’d be alright.
I’ve never been able to use sewing machines. I admire you folk but that kills my back.
!!! !!!! !!! I want to see pictures of this!!!!
For the yurt ceiling quilts, I used sheets and old curtains, stuffed with old towels and mattress pads and blankets. My guiding aesthetic was mostly just… Spend $0. That was pretty much it. (The curtains were from my childhood home, hoarded by my father to be paint dropcloths. The sheets were worn out or from odd sets. The towels were frayed ones. The mattress pad was one where the elastic was shot and the backing frayed. It was all salvage. One blanket had been chewed by mice and had holes.)
But there’s nothing attractive about them. And I was trying to do them in as few pieces as possible, so they’re only pieced a utilitarian amount– they were rectangles i had to make into triangles, since the yurt is circular.
I want something pretty to look at, and I’d like to even make… kind of a representative image of some kind. Which would involve yes, cutting fabric into deliberate shapes. But I figure, I’m starting with salvaged fabric and letting the condition of the fabric dictate the shapes somewhat…
The crazy quilt I have, from the 1880s, my uncle bought it somewhere, I don’t know. And it’s pretty clearly made of scraps of the maker’s apparel fabrics, stitched together more or less at random. The backing is larger pieces of fabric, but possibly salvaged from sheets. And the batting– I think it’s pieced too, and I think it’s made of old coats. But I don’t want to open it up and look, because the thing’s 120 years old and I don’t want to risk harm to it. But I can feel it’s not all in one piece, if that makes sense…
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