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unicornduke:
bomberqueen17:
unicornduke:
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.
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unicornduke:
bomberqueen17:
unicornduke:
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.
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