Hip-hip-hooray! The Black & White t-shirt quilt is finished. It is the first of three for a customer. My impatience paid off for refusing to wait for the fusible interfacing (which finally arrived on Saturday). This finish is going to be the focus of this week's Sew & Tell.
A few of my favorite blocks are the ones that include pockets ~ one on the front and back each... and the "Cheers" blocks. Dave and I watched Cheers when it was on prime tv and then again in syndication, and most recently we streamed it on Netflix until it was no longer available.
"Friends" will always be our favorite, but, I digress...
As I was marking lines for quilting, I wondered about the recommendation given on the package stating "quilt up to 4" apart...
My elongated crosshatch measures 6-1/4" in length and 4-3/4" wide, while the parallel lines are 4" apart. I'm not worried about it much, but just curious...
I understand that the quilting is to hold the batting in place, and that it keeps the batting from sagging with time and use.
Have you ever had a problem with batting because the quilting was not dense enough?
Let me know your thoughts by leaving a comment... I'd love to hear from you!
This week's Sew & Tell feature is Gretchen at Gretchen's Little Corner. She is approaching the last of the hand quilting of her Lady Jane Quilt... and it is beautiful! Here's a closeup, but if you want to see more, hop over to her blog by following the link above.
Time to join the party! Since the anniversary of Sew & Tell came and went somewhat unnoticed, I feel that it deserves some celebrating.
Next week, I'll be giving away my collection of mini-quilts ~ I currently have 8 of them. So that means there will be 8 winners! Be sure to come back for your chance to win from a random drawing. 😊
Keep Piecing!
Melva
Linking with:
Design Wall Monday at Small Quilts and Doll Quilts
Monday Musings at Songbird Designs
Craftastic Monday at Sew Can Do
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Fabulous t- shirt quilt. I am sure this quilt holds many memories for the customer. Happy Sunday
ReplyDeleteThanks Melisa. ❤ Your new hens are super cute. Thanks for joining Sew & Tell.
DeleteThat is a great T shirt quilt - what a fun collection of T's!!
ReplyDeleteI love being able to preserve the memories! I may be biased, but I think everyone needs at least one memory quilt. LOL.
DeleteBeautiful finish Melva! Friends was our favorite too. Then Frasier, and now we are re-watching Seinfeld!
ReplyDeleteFrasier was good too. We have watched Seinfeld, but grow bored with it… I mean it’s a show about nothing 😉
DeleteFun T-shirt quilt! And thank you for inviting me in your link party ;)
ReplyDeleteThe more, the merrier 😊
DeleteWhat a fun quilt, Melva! As for batting, I always check the label on the batt, which will tell you how far apart the motifs can be. My favorite batt in as far as being able to space wider is Quilter's Dream in various lofts. As an Island Batik ambassador, we are provided Hobbs batts, which I have found also have good spacing options. HTH!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip (again) about the QD batting. 😊
DeleteThis will be such a great memory quilt for your customer! Love the Cheers blocks too as I'm a big fan. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
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Hi Melva, that's a great quilt! My mother hand-quilted a quilt for my son that was not anywhere close to being stitched enough. It ended up ripping where it bunched out. It didn't help that my son doesn't sleep with a top sheet. If the batting said to quilt 4" apart, then you should be fine. I now have an excuse to stitch my quilts densely! :-) Take care.
ReplyDeleteI could see how the batting bunching up could cause heavy wearing. I did a repair on a quilt made in the 90s that was tied (not close enough) and that is what happened. Thanks for jogging my memory.
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