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.
