Wondering how long it would take me to get back to the blog, eh? Well, I have been working on two flannel quilts for two special little boys. I pieced all my remnants and left overs from several years of jammie-robe making, and came out with enough long strips calculated in 6" units to make two 72" long quilts about 45 or so inches wide. Looking at backing led me to 108" flannel backing at Joann's in which selection you don't have much color choice. I selected grayish marbled flannel which is on the warm side of gray, and Warm and Natural batting - one Queen Size batting will make two quilts this size, and everything is now ready for pinning and quilting. Another few weeks of nothing from me here while I get that work accomplished!
Notice the good help I always have when working in the sewing room or out on the dining table. Pearl is a great supervisor, and a tremendous help. She keeps the mood good no matter what sort of sewing or quilting complications may arise! Before I pinned these, I consulted the good quilters at PatternReview.com about the right-side-wrong-side thing with the batting. Seems the side you can see was pierced downward by needles is the right side, and where the needles came out of the batting and left little tufty things is the wrong side. So put the right side up toward the top and sewing it will be easier they say. I won't try to experiment, I will just do it that way. This will be the maiden voyage for the J6300 in the realm of FMQ. I used the walking foot to sew the strips together for the tops, and it was great - I set the machine on about the middle to a bit more speed, but never the top speed on the speed regulator and then used the pedal usually all the way. The machine sews so nicely and the tops went together speedily.
Notice the good help I always have when working in the sewing room or out on the dining table. Pearl is a great supervisor, and a tremendous help. She keeps the mood good no matter what sort of sewing or quilting complications may arise! Before I pinned these, I consulted the good quilters at PatternReview.com about the right-side-wrong-side thing with the batting. Seems the side you can see was pierced downward by needles is the right side, and where the needles came out of the batting and left little tufty things is the wrong side. So put the right side up toward the top and sewing it will be easier they say. I won't try to experiment, I will just do it that way. This will be the maiden voyage for the J6300 in the realm of FMQ. I used the walking foot to sew the strips together for the tops, and it was great - I set the machine on about the middle to a bit more speed, but never the top speed on the speed regulator and then used the pedal usually all the way. The machine sews so nicely and the tops went together speedily.
2 comments:
You must have made tons of jammies! The quilts will be nice and warm as Pearl can attest to.
Thanks glorm! It's taken about 7 years to accumulate that much! :)
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