Thank you for talking about your concept over 4 videos. Thank you for showing what people come up with. I am making my very first quilt ever, with the ladyfinger form. I am making it out of purely kimono scraps, leftovers, discolored fabric, old discolored thrift store silk clothing, and color test pieces. All of it silk and some viskose. I have a vast stash of silk (kimono) and have always known that some day I would evolve in to a quilter. This pattern is GREAT for soaking up, allowing, the inherent wonkiness of combining thin satin with thick crepes and all kinds of ikat, twill and plain weave. Quilt looks to end up at 1.40 meters x 1.5 meters, have not decided on borders and binding yet. I first followed the portal layout (light in the middle, and then I went light blue dominant on bottom to red and dark purple dominant on top, so two distinct gradients at once) pieced it out on a big sheet on the floor. I have no yellow, but lots of pale pink, making for a kind of dull center. Then i cut the sheet in two separating the quilt pieces in two equal sized blocks basically mirror forms, then slid the two blocks around so the two outsides was now touching and making the middle of a new design. The effect is kind of a hour glass shape where fewer and fewer light blue reach across and finally only one makes it in to dark purple and vice versa with light pale pinks coming in from either side, and I am really happy with it. I will name it "Fine point". As I do not stash cotton I could not have stumbled across a better "your first quilt" for my unique stash and sensibilities, the pattern and concept is much more versatile than I think you realized, thank you so much Ricky.
And coming up with a quilt pattern will be fun. I will have no waves or squiggles, there will be straight lines but not parallell. Maybe picking up the angles of the ladyfingers. The tread is color variegated top stitch in viscose (think I will use my Wonderfill Accent ACM 40 purple blue and green) it constantly fades in to a new color, if I can find a needle that will go trough all the layers of crazy silk and not break the 12 wt thread.
Lots of beautiful quilts. I have to get a few things out of the way & then I'll give it a try. Thank you so much for the classes. It's always fun to learn something new. And please take us along on your longarm journey.
I have started mine but will be a small quilt. Using scraps from your scrap bag. Love taking your classes. Thanks for being there for all of us quilters.
Thanks for this Ricky. I couldn’t attend the Live but I think watching this has helped me know where to go now. I have all the lady fingers cut out but wasn’t sure what colors to put together to make the blocks … now I am at least ready to give it a try … right after I finish the current quilt I’m piecing. Good luck with your new longarm. I remember when I got mine and had 20 waiting to be quilted. It is nice not to have a back up of quilt tops and to be able to quilt for charities. Again, thanks.
If the perennials you are planting were grown out in a sea level nursery (or even 2,000ft el) they may suffer from the change in altitude. We had that issue east of Albuquerque in the Sandia foothills.
Thank you for talking about your concept over 4 videos. Thank you for showing what people come up with. I am making my very first quilt ever, with the ladyfinger form. I am making it out of purely kimono scraps, leftovers, discolored fabric, old discolored thrift store silk clothing, and color test pieces. All of it silk and some viskose. I have a vast stash of silk (kimono) and have always known that some day I would evolve in to a quilter. This pattern is GREAT for soaking up, allowing, the inherent wonkiness of combining thin satin with thick crepes and all kinds of ikat, twill and plain weave. Quilt looks to end up at 1.40 meters x 1.5 meters, have not decided on borders and binding yet. I first followed the portal layout (light in the middle, and then I went light blue dominant on bottom to red and dark purple dominant on top, so two distinct gradients at once) pieced it out on a big sheet on the floor. I have no yellow, but lots of pale pink, making for a kind of dull center. Then i cut the sheet in two separating the quilt pieces in two equal sized blocks basically mirror forms, then slid the two blocks around so the two outsides was now touching and making the middle of a new design. The effect is kind of a hour glass shape where fewer and fewer light blue reach across and finally only one makes it in to dark purple and vice versa with light pale pinks coming in from either side, and I am really happy with it. I will name it "Fine point".
As I do not stash cotton I could not have stumbled across a better "your first quilt" for my unique stash and sensibilities, the pattern and concept is much more versatile than I think you realized, thank you so much Ricky.
And coming up with a quilt pattern will be fun. I will have no waves or squiggles, there will be straight lines but not parallell. Maybe picking up the angles of the ladyfingers. The tread is color variegated top stitch in viscose (think I will use my Wonderfill Accent ACM 40 purple blue and green) it constantly fades in to a new color, if I can find a needle that will go trough all the layers of crazy silk and not break the 12 wt thread.
Lots of beautiful quilts. I have to get a few things out of the way & then I'll give it a try. Thank you so much for the classes. It's always fun to learn something new. And please take us along on your longarm journey.
I have started mine but will be a small quilt. Using scraps from your scrap bag. Love taking your classes. Thanks for being there for all of us quilters.
It is so much fun to see all the beautiful quilts imagined from this pattern. Amazing!
Thanks for this Ricky. I couldn’t attend the Live but I think watching this has helped me know where to go now. I have all the lady fingers cut out but wasn’t sure what colors to put together to make the blocks … now I am at least ready to give it a try … right after I finish the current quilt I’m piecing. Good luck with your new longarm. I remember when I got mine and had 20 waiting to be quilted. It is nice not to have a back up of quilt tops and to be able to quilt for charities. Again, thanks.
If the perennials you are planting were grown out in a sea level nursery (or even 2,000ft el) they may suffer from the change in altitude. We had that issue east of Albuquerque in the Sandia foothills.
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