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Posted by Michelle C. on September 27, 2009, 9:25 pm
Many, many congrats on your first finished quilt! Woo-hoo!
Sorry about the yellow pencil; I have some very pink pencil on blue
fabric left over in a quilt I made too. Sigh.... I have no
suggestions, unfortunately.
Best regards,
Michelle in Nevada
P.S. Edna, as soon as you can you need to invest in a digital camera.
We NEED pictures! :-)
Edna Pearl wrote:
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> I finished my first quilt! It's a little 26" by 26" project. I don't have
> a camera, but you can see it on the cover of this book, at the bottom right,
> the black-and-red one:
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>
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Welsh-Quilts-Tradition-Inspired/dp/0715329960/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254011056&sr=8-1#reader
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> or http://tiny.cc/OTmE1
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> It came out well, and I'm proud of it. The Welsh historically sewed butted
> edges instead of binding them. That was tricky, but I imagine binding is
> even trickier. I hand-quilted some simple lines and circles in the middle.
> I machine-quilted the long, straight lines in the ditch and four, double
> figure-eights in the outer borders.
>
> The only thing I regret about this project is using a yellow pencil on the
> gray area to mark a circle around the center square. I had tried the yellow
> pencil on other fabrics and it came out fine, but I didn't try it on this
> fabric, and the yellow seems to be there to stay. The yellow is very faint
> and nobody can see it but me, but still . . . . I have tried a soft
> toothbrush and mild dish detergent on it without any success, based on
> research (which also revealed that a lot of yellow pencils have nearly
> indelible sulfur in them). I'm accepting suggestions. Lesson learned: try
> all marking tools on a scrap of every fabric I use before I use them to mark
> quilting designs.
>
> I also forgot to wash my fabric before starting to cut, but the piece came
> through a cold-water hand-wash just fine.
>
> Incidentally, I really love this book and am going to start on another
> project from it (the "Pembrokeshire") ASAP. This red-and-black piece I just
> finished is perfect as an antimacassar over a black chair-back in my living
> room (I'm cross-stitching a red-and-black, Southwestern design for a pillow
> to set on the chair, under the quilt.) The Pembrokeshire will be perfect as
> a wall hanging in my bedroom.
>
> I still have the fully-pieced, queen-size taffeta quilt top waiting until
> I'm confident enough to quilt it. I'm also cutting a queen-size
> linen-and-cotton project, and I think I'll finish the latter first, to
> practice before I resume work on the taffeta. (I'm moving slowly on my
> quilting and quickly on my cross-stitch at the moment.)
>
> ep
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> a camera, but you can see it on the cover of this book, at the bottom right,
> the black-and-red one:
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