While I am still waiting for the binding fabric to arrive for my red and green quilt, Christmas Journey, I have stayed busy. I pulled out another fourth of my pumpkin seed quilt and have started to applique the scrappy pumpkin seeds. I also got all the handles on my basket blocks appliqued in place. I am in the process of sewing sashing strips to the blocks.
Saturday, I pin basted my thousand pyramid quilt. It is one of those tops that has been waiting patiently in the studio closet. I am big stitching it, this is often called utility quilting. It was often used to finish quilts quickly. The needle and thread used are much larger and instead of 7-10 stitches per inch only about 4-5 stitches per inch are stitched into the quilt. I am going to include some pics today on how I am marking this quilt.
First I need to find the center of the quilt and draw a line straight down the center. Then I will add a line across the middle of the quilt. Where the two lines intersect is where I will start marking.
I made the template which is an easy one for pumpkin seed, a simple circle, using a compass and some cardboard. Since the body of the quilt is 48 inches across without the border I made my circle's diameter six inches cause it divides into 48 evenly. I then placed a mark at 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock. These marks will help me to place the circle as I mark the quilt.
I lay the template on the lines where they intersect on the quilt, matching the marks on the template with the lines I place on the quilt. I used a piece of paper to demonstrate so that you could see better. I will continue to the top of the quilt lining up the 12 o'clock and six o'clock marks with the line. Then, I will continue all the way down to the bottom of the quilt.
Now it is just a matter of lining the 12'oclock mark right where two circles come together, the 9 and 3 o'clock will match the bottom of the previous circles, and marking around it. I will continue doing this until the whole body of the quilt is marked. I will mark the border differently and go thru that process in a different post.
Saturday, I pin basted my thousand pyramid quilt. It is one of those tops that has been waiting patiently in the studio closet. I am big stitching it, this is often called utility quilting. It was often used to finish quilts quickly. The needle and thread used are much larger and instead of 7-10 stitches per inch only about 4-5 stitches per inch are stitched into the quilt. I am going to include some pics today on how I am marking this quilt.
First I need to find the center of the quilt and draw a line straight down the center. Then I will add a line across the middle of the quilt. Where the two lines intersect is where I will start marking.
I made the template which is an easy one for pumpkin seed, a simple circle, using a compass and some cardboard. Since the body of the quilt is 48 inches across without the border I made my circle's diameter six inches cause it divides into 48 evenly. I then placed a mark at 12 o'clock, 3 o'clock, 6 o'clock and 9 o'clock. These marks will help me to place the circle as I mark the quilt.
I lay the template on the lines where they intersect on the quilt, matching the marks on the template with the lines I place on the quilt. I used a piece of paper to demonstrate so that you could see better. I will continue to the top of the quilt lining up the 12 o'clock and six o'clock marks with the line. Then, I will continue all the way down to the bottom of the quilt.
love the pyramid quilt - I have made one of those too but just followed the design of the triangles for the quilting - you are putting a lot of effort into this and I'm sure it will be pretty quilted as it is already pretty pieced!
ReplyDeleteI wanted to use a curved line to counter balance all the straight lines. It may not work, but I am hoping the big stitching will help it holds it's own. The goal is to get the fabrics and the quilting stitches to dance together without one or the other stepping on the other one's foot.
DeleteThose baskets are just so cute! And that pyramid quilt is lovely...you are really moving along on your projects...hugs, Julierose
ReplyDeleteYeah, I have been motivated as of late. I start my day with the fun stuff, so I have to admit I don't always get the not so fun house stuff done everyday.
DeleteYou have been busy! What are you using to mark the quilting lines on the quilt?
ReplyDeleteI am using crayola washable markers. I have never had a problem with them not washing out. I find they are much more affordable than the blue quilter's markers.
Deletegreat basket block. The red lattice looks great!
ReplyDeletegreat quilt marking. In the old days ladies used a tea cup to make this design - it will look great on the pyramids!
Did you recognize the red fabric? Thank you for sharing about the tea cups, I did not know that. It's a total experiment but thought it might look interesting. I plan on using black pearl cotton 16 to do the stitching and have a plan to add a cone flower border, but will have to see how it looks once I get the body of the quilt done. Thought some different color threads that tie in with the colors in the quilt would look nice and I love cone flowers. Thanks for stopping by!
DeleteSo you are marking this with pencil or graphite??? I love your quilt design and wouldn't have thought of a great way to do that without a stencil... thanks for sharing your idea! Brilliant :) Kathi
ReplyDeleteThe mirage of fabric prints this quilt a bit of a challenge to mark, so I am using crayola washable markers. I also am using my white lead mechanical pencil in the black areas. I have always loved this quilting design and am so glad to finally try it! Thanks for stopping by!
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