To Hunter with Love
the most difficult aspect for me was not having a sounding board to help with the day to day questions. what color goes best with what, what thread to use, those things. i am a new quilter without an…
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Cathedral Windows Quilt
Getting the window sections to quit coming unstitched. It was also difficult to get the windows sewn in after sewing a lot of squares together. It was hard to get the squares to lay flat even after p…
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My Girly Quilt
Batting was the most difficult part. It took me ages to do. I finally used the two board method. I did not like using safety pins as I thought there was too much movement in the backing so I used sti…
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Quilt for Kaitlyn
Cutting all the gagillion little squares. I found this extremely boring and it was hard work. I have a rotary cutter but I still found that the cutting took me ages. At least the tip of sewing the sq…
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My Fourth Quilt
The material wass very difficult to work with, but I think it was worth the extra care and work. I also am working in a small space so until I get home I may just work on baby quilts. My apartment wa…
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First Quilt, a Bargello Design
Trying to "quilt as you go" with perfectly straight lines. I used a red/black gingham fabric for the backing. It made my sometimes wavy stitching (on the quilt-as-you-go bit) more obvious, and I coul…
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My First Quilt
Once I started knowing how I wanted it to turn out the only thing I had to worry about was keeping it square. I also used some stretchy materials, so keeping it square was a challenge. I had been col…
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What a Blast Quilt
binding, pinning it together, I don't have a frame so did it on our lg table, so not too tight. I'm going to find my clamps and clamp it down next time so it will be tighter and use safety pins, or I…
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Hand Pieced & Hand Quilted
Finishing the quilt after my daughter took permanent marker to it. I thought it was ruined and just stuffed it into a box swearing to never quilt again. Many years later I decided that it wasn't ruin…
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Blue and Cream Wash Quilt
Sewing the fabrics that kept slipping as they weren't cottons and lining up each row exactly. The quilt ended up fitting our Queen size bed so there were literally hundreds of 2" squares lined up rea…
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Cherished First Quilt
Choosing the lay-out with the photos. Then when sewing, making sure that the photos were "right-side" up. Then I also had no idea how to make the binding. Next was trying how to put all the layers to…
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Underground Railroad Sampler Quilt
Trying to figure out how to make all the blocks the same size.I thought I was sewing a 1/4" seam and I slowly realized I was not. Since this was my first quilt I was new to quilting totally.I didn't …
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Necktie Quilt and Sham Starburst
I think the placement of all the ties and doing all the different adjustments was the most difficult. Ties differ in size and materials. Some would streach and some did not. Getting everything to lay…
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Belley's First African Fabrics Quilt In A Day
Quilting it. The quilt is heavy to be getting through the machine. My portable sewing machine tends to overheat, probably because the power here in Luanda, Angola tends to fluctuate. No matter how ca…
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Square in a Square..... in a Square!
I am submitting it here, because I could not find the entry form for the MINIATURE QUILT GALLERY on the About.com site. * So will you please enter this little quilt in the Miniature Section please. t…
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