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Thanks! Good advice!
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Hi My in-laws are moving into assisted living. They have been going through the house and I have accepted a stack of quilt blocks, templates, and fabric that were part of a quilt my MIL had started a long time ago. I have never done something like this before, piecing someone else's quilt top or doing anything with old fabric. The fabric is old
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Yes, I have done this. Cut the T-shirt up the side seams and across the top just below the collar (the front or the back, whichever you are using for the quilt). Then use fusible interfacing to stabilize the T-shirt so it won't stretch - you can buy this by the yard at Joann's and it's very cheap. After that you can cut the stabilized T
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Have you pinned all the layers together thoroughly?
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[quote user="MNnancy"] I think it comes as a membership bonus to QCA. [/quote] Well, that is interesting because I renewed mine and did not receive a disc...
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Here is the back. It was a wide back so it didn't need piecing.
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Here is the block. You can probably see the quilting also.
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This was the McCall Mystery Quilt in three parts. I had the butterfly fabric for a long time and I just knew this was the place for it. I called it Crystal Butterfly because the purple/green/cream part looks like crystals to me. I brought it to the LQS (Bits & Pieces in Pelham NH) for quilting because I didn't want to wrestle with something
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I saw this fabric collection at a quilt show a year or two ago and I had to have it. I believe it was part of a Hoffman challenge some time ago - Asian theme, some metallic, teals and blues and greens and golds. One of my friends and I both wanted to make a Yellow Brick Road quilt, and this was the impetus for us to do it. It's so interesting how
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This was a Beatrix Potter panel. I don't usually make "girl" quilts because they told me they get far fewer "boy" quilts, but something about this one spoke to me. It's very sweet. I made straight lines in the pictorial part and zigzag on the edges of the border sections. On the back it's got little bunnies floating around