Episode 50: Quilts for Gifts and Charity, Substituting Quilt Blocks, and Seam Pressing Advice
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- In this episode, Sherri and Chelsi share their thoughts on pressing seams in quilts, substituting quilt blocks in quilts, and give ideas on gifting and donating quilts. They also share an update from a viewer with ideas on cleaning vintage quilts. Finally, they announce when they will be able to share their upcoming new fabric collection and patterns.
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Happy 50th Episode!🍾
Doesn't that just warm your hearts? Seeing where they go. I give most of my quilts away.
I loved that Billy showed your quilts being loved & used by the little girls!
Another great episode!
Hi, after a week of visiting the grandkids, repairs to our pickup truck and getting the flu, I'm finally starting to feel like myself again. I hope you have a cheerful week ahead! Thank you for this video!
Awesome episode all the way around! What a great family!! And talent you share! 💗🍀💗
I love your family dynamics. I love how Billy was happy to show you where your quilts are and gave that to you as a gift. God Bless you all.
I'm a traditional girl, too. Modern just doesn't have the beauty of traditional quilts. Really enjoy listening to both of you.
Love your podcasts. Our church makes quilts for foster children. I make at least one a week. Always trying new patterns and techniques. I also make embroidery blocks in the quilts using my fantastic embroidery machine. Love to make quilts to donate.
Carolyn & John in Arizona
Our church quilting group just gave over 25 quilts, to an organization in Philadelphia, that ministers to Afghan refugees. There are so many needs.
I loved all of your stories today. I belong to a guild that participates in making quilts that are donated to a hospital guild so they can gift 1 quilt to every person in the hospital on Christmas Day.
I’m so glad to hear both of in this horrible time here in Europe. You are a sunny spot. CONGRATULATIONS for 50 years
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Yes a bright spot in my day - watching from Poland.
50 episodes ❤️🥰❤️
@@beckypetersen2680 stay safe 🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️❤️🙏🏼🙏🏼
The segment about sharing quilts to donate really touched me. I raised a chronically ill daughter (who is now a healthy adult!) and she was in the hospital 16 times. It was a very stressful and scary time in our lives. One of the comforting things that we experienced were all of the Linus Project crocheted and quilted blankets and pillowcases that she received. It was something that gave her comfort and something that she could hold on to. Those donations truly make a difference!
Congratulations on your 50th episode!! I’ve enjoyed every one! ❤️
In pressing my block, I too, learned to press towards the dark. But I’ve found that sometimes the block lays flatter when you press open. I wonder if it was a hard fast rule to press to the side because the quilts were used and washed regularly. The wear and tear of the quilt as a necessity is different from our generation where we lightly use our quilts. And some are only used as decor. Just a thought. ☺️
Chelsi, you don't have to give away your quilts. They are a part of you. They hold memories.Once my friend made me feel so guilty about not donating my long hair to an organization, that I went ahead and did the donation, but I didn't like to. Quilts and those memories don't grow back. my best to you both.
Ok, the sharing of the pictures & stories of the quilts being used & loved was just so touching 💗💗 When we gift a quilt or runner or whatever, sometimes we don't know the impact they can have on someone who doesn't quilt! Thanks for sharing.
Biz is great. I use to use it all the time and my mom would ask me how I got all my little boys clothes, especially whites, so clean.
Love your podcast and always wait for them. Can you invite Edyta Sitar of Landry basket? Congratulations on the 50 episode, love them all and keep going.
I always love your podcasts! The segment at the end where Billy showed the pictures of where Sherri’s quilts had found new homes made me very emotional. Gifting quilts is one of my love languages! I don’t have very many quilts because I keep making them for fund raiser or gifting them to loved ones.
Lovely quilt s display love them♥️I love the butterflies 🦋
What is the name of the quilt area and this organization of the quilting cancer, military ext. my daughter lives in Southern California I would like to visit and do some donation I am a beginner just starting and I do go to quilt meeting at church ⛪️ the ladies garther and display their quilts on monthly the presentation each month amazing the are ladies on 30,40,50&60&70 amazing alway sharing and help each other meet every Tuesday am then go for lunch out in community we have so much fun lovely quilting we have different speakers we give some quilts . I sew my first small quilt and gave it to my daughter for Christmas . Thank you for podcast great ideas give give to babies and people come out hospitality give them quilt.
Your Beautiful quilt that was donated your amazing 🤩
On pressing seams open. If my block is a tiny bit too small, I press the last seams open. The block lies just a bit flatter and a bit bigger.
👍👏👍👏👍👏🥰🥰🥰🇦🇺I love the look of the Dresden block but I won’t do it or curves
WOW what an amazing podcast today! Billie, that was such a beautiful and loving surprise that you gave your Mom!! Your girl friend has quite a treasure in you! Loved, also, Sherri how you spoke about the Guild in Calf. They sound awesome!
Congratulations on your 50th! Thank you for sharing yourself and your quilts with us.
I just love the little girls with the quilts, I need to quit hoarding mine and share!
What a wonderful ending to this video. Loved the photo’s of the quilts with the children!
On the pressing issue. Think of when quilting originally started most quilters did not use a sewing machine. It was all sewn by hand. Hand sewing might be spaced further apart meaning that the seams might pull out more easily if they were pressed open. I don’t think anyone hand piecing a quilt top would press open but that is just a guess.
The pictures of the kids wrapped in your quilts were lovely. I had tears in my eyes. What a wonderful thing for Billy to do.
Loved what Billy showed…the quilts that keep on giving. Great idea. And you don’t lose them, when you see the photos that will always be reminders. 🥰🇦🇺
Congratulations on 50 episodes!
Congrats on the 50th episode and all of your quilting, patterns and fabric designing mile stones!! 👍😁👍🎉🎉🎉
I’m going to have to see what the Swoon quilt is?
I think the artist people need to do their “thing” in quilts but most of my quilting is traditional. My last name is Hart so I do a lot of heart blocks. I use a heart inside a heart for my label always. I was told that People know it’s my quilt because of the label. I never thought about this until later.
Congratulations on 50 episodes! I’ve listened to each one and have enjoyed each one. Thank you for sharing your expertise!
Thank you for the inspiring episode. I quilted for many years as a stress reliever after seeing 30 patients per day (retired provider). Now that I have more time, I contacted our local hospital volunteers who organize charity quilts for terminal pt without any families, or just do not have the means for a warm blanket. I wanted to start the year with a quilt to donate to one of the facilities. I felt honored to have given someone a quilt made with tenderness. The people who received this small gift were so grateful! I now collect my scraps and started making a 10 1/2 blocks when I just want to make crumb blocks. I set aside a half an hour or so, I now have 6 made this month and hope to gift it before the end of the year! The quilts you gifted are beautiful, I am not there yet with my skill. Practice makes perfect!
Fun and kudos to Billy
I love your pod cast! It is hard to part with a quilt after all the time and love ones put into it. However, I don’t have a business so list of the ones I make I give away. I make other gifts too. If I had a business I would likely keep more for instruction and samples. You both share so much of your talent and knowledge. You give in many ways. Thank you all!
Congratulations 🎉 on 50 episodes. And on the puzzle! Can't wait to make it!
I have used Biz for removing almost every stain. Sometimes you have to soak for days (keep draining, adding more Biz and hot water) until the stain is gone.
Your quilts have spread your love of quilting and recipients are loving them now.
Congrats ladies! Episode 50!! 💐🎈🎉
Green episode. Looking forward to your next one and the new fabrics and quilts.
Love the butterfly quilt.
Congratulations on your 50th episode 🎉🎊👏👏. This was a wonderful episode with lots of good information. Please Sherri and Chelsea bring more tutorials to all of us. I do so enjoy learning. 🥰🥰
Happy 50th, so glad I have shared your journey so far. Regarding substituting or tweaking a pattern to make it your own, I changed the Strip Pieced block in your Together quilt by removing the centre seam so all the strips were even, end result looks the same and my "OCD" satisfied💕 Looking forward to Emma coming out later this year, hopefully no shipping delays to 🇦🇺🤗
If pressing seams open, don’t stitch in the ditch. Mary Fons did a demo that shows that pressed to the side are stronger, but, as you said, strength isn’t a consideration for quilting as much as for clothing. You three are delightful. Congrats all around.
Congratulations. Thank You. Been eagerly awaiting and waiting to watch every episode since the beginning. Love to see the banter between the family. Keep on sewing!👍😃
The Pressing Seams Open discussion. From my research, I have come to the conclusion that back when most quilts were hand pieced, the seams were always pressed to one side. And yes, back the some seams weren’t even pressed. The quilter easily slid her needle from one side of the seam to the other and took an anchor stitch at the seam line. The quilt top was pressed when finished. The pressing to one side was for strength as often the quilts were hand sewn as quickly as possible…..attention to really small stitches weren’t as important as getting the top done. With machiNe piecing, pressing seams open doesn’t present the possibility of seams coming open as it did with hand sewing seams, especially if the maker didn’t take really small stitches.
BTW, I just hopped on to this video…. think I missed it. I had watched your new video about your quilt planner. I’m very organized (former R.N. Of 53 years). Listening to your insights, I decided to purchase one as I loved the ideas listeners had shared.
My organization process is quite different. I only work on one quilt at a time. That stopped all of my unfinished project! I finally came up with a wonderful working plan for myself so I could obtain my many quilting Goals.
I first postulated: *Categories of quilts that I wanted to make.
* Family Quilts
* Quilts for our home
*. Unfinished Quilt
*. Miscellaneous
*. Patterns I Own
*. Fabric Precuts I Have
*. Small Projects
*. Quilts Using My Old Much Loved Fabrics
After mulling this around for a week or so, I decided to try a Quarterly Plan. So I made a graph after planning how many quilts I wanted to make a year. I used several former years to try to come up with a realistic number.
Next, after studying my list for a few days, I came up with my current plan. On my graph, the 1st Category in each square is from the list above. The next square across is labeled Quarterly, then Project, followed with, Estimated days to Finish, then Start and last, Finished.
So, here is the fun part. In quarterly, I put 1/4 for the first 4 listed under Category. Each quarter, I would make a quilt for a family member, our home, and one unfinished one along with one miscellaneous item that I had allotted 3 days maximum to complete. Ex, a repair project, pillow, etc.
Then I would alternate between odd and even quarters for these categories: Patterns I own and precuts I own. HAPPY to share that April starts my second quarter and I’m making Community by Chelsi which is my choice for Our Home.
The last 2 categories: Small Project and Quilts Made with my Old Fabric are listed under the Quarterly category as TBD. (To be determined). Now, this could end up being a quilt for family, for our home, or using a pattern I own. BUT, I’m using my Old fabrics. Yes, I know the trend is fabric de-stashing, but I have many quilts I want to make that would be perfect for these fabrics. I live in Maine and frugal is in my DNA! Mostly, I love connecting quilt with with my quilting foremothers. I’m a far gal at heart and we live in the woods so these fabrics call to me as loudly as the tantalizing new fabrics. I also love the journey of choosing and using what I have on hand to turn it into a beautiful quilt! Oh, I print out 3 calendar months and fill in the current month, let’s say January with what I want to accomplish. Then in my computer, I have made a chart with the categories and plugged in several quilts that have been calling me for a few years now. I also added where I can find the information for each quilt.
I have a separate small notebook where I have logged in every unfinished quilt I own. (No new ones generated for 4 years now🙂🙂🙂).
In this notebook I logged in the quilt along with any and all information about the quilt. Also where the quilt is located and where I had left off working. So, I have a very good idea how long it would take to finish. I just finished one this quarter.
Until this morning, I didn’t realize that your planner would be a such a great asset along with my rather unique system. Thanks so much for your videos because Eli love your content and your fun joyful presentation. All three of your personalities are such sweet spirits and I know as I read lots of comments, so much joy and happiness to us quilters out here.
Bach to finishing Stepping Stones for our eldest son. I bought his backing fabric before I chose his pattern. He has a delightful Border Collie, Gracie Mae. So his backing will be covered with Border Collies and this is my final quilt for this quarter. I machine my own quilts on my BabyLock domestic machine and think I’ll finish it just in time. For me, that means binding and label. Love from Maine.
You guys are great! You remind me of an old skit on SNL that I watched long ago. Love the quilt.
Omygosh I know the one you mean!!!
@@angelaeaves9686 It was funny, they have the same tone in the voice and the set up. It made me chuckle.
Love the Monarch quilt! Beautiful.
Quilters are a very giving community. We make quilts for our personal creativity and gift 🎁 for satisfaction and love.
Could Chelsi show her Swoon quilt?
My son and his fiance live a 5 hour car ride away, so we don't see them as much as we like. When we finally got there after the vaccines came out, I was so happy to see one of the quilts I made layiing on their sofa. I could tell that it had been washed many times. It made me feel so good that it had been used and loved.
Would you show us the Swoon Quilts ? How hard is it to make? Skill level?
Thank you for addessing the pressing issue. I have learned that a test block is important not just for piecing, but also pressing. Most patterns do not address pressing. Enjoy and look forward to your podcasts. Congrats on the 50 episode milestone.
The Monarch quilt is really unique and beautiful. I enjoyed the pictures of the little girls hugging your quilts. I’m still working on the Sea Glass quilt with your Walkabout fabric! And I made my first table runner recently from Sherri’s Patchwork Heart pattern.
I was very happy to get the magazine and plan to make the placemats. Can you tell me if the soft and stable washes well? Do you need to take special care with that product?
Congratulations to Billy and Isabella! I didn’t know you got engaged. He always referred to her as his girlfriend until today;)
It’s nice to gift quilts to family and friends and it makes me happy that they appreciate that they’re specifically made for them.
I loved your show today guys! ❤️
Quilts are under far less stress than many seams on clothing. I do mainly open but use both if I feel I would get a better result.
What if you auctioned off a quilt or 2 for charity? I think you would be surprised how much you could donate to a charity of your choice with one quilt. Congratulations on your 50th episode! 🥳 I am a new quilter (Covid Quilter) and am totally hooked🤩
Chelsea, bless your heart! I know you think you have tried “most” quilt blocks, but I don’t think there are many modern quilters who have tried most quilt blocks, because there are 1000’s of blocks😍. You do beautiful work!
"I love that, it makes me want to give her more" Is exactly how I feel when I give someone something and they use it and love it. And Chelsi - eventually your house will get so full - it is either give some away or you give up space in the house. I have one room that probably has 200- queen size quilts in it and it has become unusable!!!!!
On this and future episodes, can you please “introduce” the quilts on the ladders? I absolutely love the checkerboard one on the left. ❤️
Just bought your Monarch pattern. Sew cute!
I thought that because quilters in the past did it by hand, seams were pressed to one side. Then when the machines came along, we can lower the stitch length which would make the seams stronger if pressed open.
I don't like wonky blocks that are wonky simply for wonkiness sake. They just don't appeal to me aesthetically.
HowEVer, I think foundation pieced blocks are fun.... fabric jigsaw puzzles in a way...
Hj Sherri & Chelsi
I would have love to have one of the quilt,
Please, what is the quilt pattern name of the quilt behind Chelsea, on the quilt ladder?
My quilt guild also donates hundreds of quilts a year to different organizations.
Have you ever made a video of your method of piecing blocks into rows and then pressing the top? I'd think that would be a great instructional video.
Enjoyed your video, as usual! It’s always fun to see you chatting with Billy, too. I’d like to know more about the top quilt on the ladder behind you, Sherri. Looks like it would be a good scrap quilt!?
It is her pattern called Mahalo
I love biz. My mom was a big biz believer. I used it on my baby stains when I had babes.
Do u not as pattern designers say in ur patterns how you suggest how to press ur seams
I heard a couple of references to someone's swim quilts. Who is the designer and was swim an acronym?
I love butterflies please do you have video for that pattern im a begginer but learning alot from videos. Thank you!🙂
When you mention quilts you love please put a link or picture.
Check out the Linus project for donating quilts. They give quilts/blankets to sick kids from birth to teens. They will take quilt tops and have people that will back and quilt them. They also take fabric donations and give it to people who want to make quilts/blankets but don’t have the money to buy fabric. Thanks for another great podcast.❤️
Besides Project Linus, there is also ABC-Quilts….they take donations for babies at risk, and some of the groups encourage kids to make simple quilts. I take photos of my quilts before I give them away….it’s fun to make a Xmas quilt (lap size if you can’t find the time for a bigger one) as a wedding gift, too!..🦋☮️💕
And being a long arm custom quilter I cannot quilt in the ditch when the seams are pressed open. For quilting I prefer the seams pressed to the dark side. E2E quilting it doesn’t matter.
Would love to your scrappy Quilts
Billy, you need to marry that girl!
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Hi Ladies! Love your vlogs. Question: You mentioned your favorite quilt pattern and thought I heard you say Swim by Camille. Do you have a link to the pattern? You seemed to love the pattern, so curious. Thanks and have a great week.
I heard “swim” too but I think they were saying “Swoon” which a pattern designed by Camille.
@@sherylvitosh7209 thanks!
Billy time to marry Isabel ❤️❤️What big heart she has.
How can I get the Monarch pattern?
Where did you get your quilt ladders?
Ohmigosh, I am always shocked at how much I do not like pineapple blocks, to my eyes it's pure chaos, I literally turn my head or close my eyes when one is displayed in as video or quilt shop.
What is a swim quilt?
Not swim…Swoon it is on the Thimbleblossom website. In a couple of sizes.
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Sherri and Chelsi, I love your blog and always look forward to watching. I live in your community and have known Sherri for years and remember Billy as a great student when I taught him in 6th grade math. I have used patterns designed by each of you to make quilts that I love. I wanted to comment about substituting a different block in a quilt. I made Sherri's 2021 Block of the Month and decided early on that I wanted to set it on point. I made the 6" blocks and used the same fabric line, Christmas FigsII, using similar prints to the one Sherri did. Because I was setting it on point, the house block wasn't going to work because I didn't want it sideways. I also needed 13 blocks for the setting so I ended up using one block twice and switching the colors and found the pattern for another 6" block that I think was from your 2020 BOM. I love the on-point setting but I did have to make some changes. Can't wait to use it next Christmas.
what is a swim quilt
Swoon by Camille Roskelley of Thimble Blossom Design.
Walkabout was 4 years ago?? I still haven't made the quilt yet... but I do not like FPP. I have several UFOs of FPPs.
I don’t like houses on a quilt.