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Posted by Roberta on October 5, 2009, 12:35 pm
Way too much fun, Doc!
BTW, has anyone mentioned to you that CQ foundations tend to shrink
up, the more stuff you attach to them? Therefore you need to cut
squares an inch or so larger than you want and trim the finished
blocks to size afterwards.
Roberta in D
On Mon, 5 Oct 2009 06:14:49 -0700 (PDT), "Dr. Zachary Smith"
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>Yesterday I bought 4 yards of plain black quilting fabric for my CQ.
>I bought black because some of my fabrics are translucent or thin, and
>I didn't want white showing through. I got plain black quilting
>fabric because DW and others advised me to 1.) Get the best foundation
>I could, and 2.) Avoid muslin from TSWLTH like the plague,
>regardless. Now the plan is to wash the foundation, iron, and cut to
>size (I bought enough for several quilts plus mistakes, shrinkage,
>etc.)
>I have my first pieces (block, if you will...) planned, and will begin
>by ME a design on the center of the first "patch", trim the patch to
>shape, and stitch it to the foundation. I have a couple of choices
>for which fabric will occupy this auspicious location, so I'm going to
>embroider the design onto both/all of them, and choose the one that
>looks/turns out best. The current snag is mentioned in a separate
>post - I can't figure out which colors of emb. thread to buy because
>of color name vageness. The LQS has a 2/1 clearance sale on emb.
>thread, and despite a list, I have no idea which colors to get!!!
>Once that is resolved, I'm figuratively off to the races...
>I've gotten my head around the shiny/slipperies. Now I have to find a
>local source, and my best hope was closed Sun., so I'll have to wait
>for an evening they're open that I can get there. If they don't have
>it, I'll likely have to settle for what TSWLTH has (I want to see/feel
>what I'm getting). I picked up a couple dozen more upholstery
>remnants Saturday.
>There's still so much planning to be done I can't get my head around
>all of it at once. I need to find more embroidery designs, finalize
>some more focal points, balance color values, choose my decorative
>stitches... I've been working on this design for months and I think I
>still have more ahead of me than behind me (design-wise) but I'm
>catching my DW's impatience (see "Is patience required?" thread).
>Am I having fun yet?
>Doc
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on October 5, 2009, 3:44 pm
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> Way too much fun, Doc!
> BTW, has anyone mentioned to you that CQ foundations tend to shrink
> up, the more stuff you attach to them?
Not specifically (though it may be in one of the several books we now
have on CQing). I assumed so anyway from my experience w/ DWs quilts
shrinking up between pinning the layers together and finishing - it
makes sense.
Doc
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Posted by onetexsun on October 5, 2009, 10:58 pm
My favorite foundation is restaurant grade cotton napkins. My sister
sent me a bundle of them years ago and I used some in the kitchen,
which was okay, but the first time I turned one into a CQ foundation I
was hooked. They all came out of the kitchen and went into the stash.
Yay! LOL. It's fun how we all have different likes and preferences.
Sunny
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Posted by Dr. Zachary Smith on October 6, 2009, 8:41 am
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> My favorite foundation is restaurant grade cotton napkins.
What, no linen? Pish-tosh, I say... Pish-tosh! 8<(
Seriously, that's a really good idea. All pre-cut to the same size,
finished edges, probably pre-shrunk from use, and crazy quilting...
what a brilliant way to conceal those unsightly gravy stains! :-)
And it gives me another idea (that experienced CQers probably do as
S.O.P.) If my initial plan doesn't work out, I'll precut my
foundation fabric into identical squares, and perhaps try finishing
the edges against unraveling whilst working on the blocks....
Doc
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Posted by Leslie& The Furbabies in MO. on October 6, 2009, 9:58 am
Actually, raveling usually isn't much of a problem. But the block shrinking
could be. It's always best to cut the foundation larger than the finished
block- as you add trims and embroidery stitching, etc, it will pull the
block smaller. When all the blocks are done then all should be trimmed to
the same size.
That's assuming you have more than one block.... ;-)
Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.
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> My favorite foundation is restaurant grade cotton napkins.
What, no linen? Pish-tosh, I say... Pish-tosh! 8<(
Seriously, that's a really good idea. All pre-cut to the same size,
finished edges, probably pre-shrunk from use, and crazy quilting...
what a brilliant way to conceal those unsightly gravy stains! :-)
And it gives me another idea (that experienced CQers probably do as
S.O.P.) If my initial plan doesn't work out, I'll precut my
foundation fabric into identical squares, and perhaps try finishing
the edges against unraveling whilst working on the blocks....
Doc
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>I bought black because some of my fabrics are translucent or thin, and
>I didn't want white showing through. I got plain black quilting
>fabric because DW and others advised me to 1.) Get the best foundation
>I could, and 2.) Avoid muslin from TSWLTH like the plague,
>regardless. Now the plan is to wash the foundation, iron, and cut to
>size (I bought enough for several quilts plus mistakes, shrinkage,
>etc.)
>I have my first pieces (block, if you will...) planned, and will begin
>by ME a design on the center of the first "patch", trim the patch to
>shape, and stitch it to the foundation. I have a couple of choices
>for which fabric will occupy this auspicious location, so I'm going to
>embroider the design onto both/all of them, and choose the one that
>looks/turns out best. The current snag is mentioned in a separate
>post - I can't figure out which colors of emb. thread to buy because
>of color name vageness. The LQS has a 2/1 clearance sale on emb.
>thread, and despite a list, I have no idea which colors to get!!!
>Once that is resolved, I'm figuratively off to the races...
>I've gotten my head around the shiny/slipperies. Now I have to find a
>local source, and my best hope was closed Sun., so I'll have to wait
>for an evening they're open that I can get there. If they don't have
>it, I'll likely have to settle for what TSWLTH has (I want to see/feel
>what I'm getting). I picked up a couple dozen more upholstery
>remnants Saturday.
>There's still so much planning to be done I can't get my head around
>all of it at once. I need to find more embroidery designs, finalize
>some more focal points, balance color values, choose my decorative
>stitches... I've been working on this design for months and I think I
>still have more ahead of me than behind me (design-wise) but I'm
>catching my DW's impatience (see "Is patience required?" thread).
>Am I having fun yet?
>Doc