The Quilting Journey in 4 Quilts - From Beginner to Advanced Quilters - HQ Live
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- Опубликовано: 19 сен 2024
- Join Handi Quilter educators as they share their four favorite quilts, including their very first finished project. Kelly, Kim, Kristina and Johnny walk us through the techniques, skills and stories behind the quilts that defined them as they progressed from absolute beginners to advanced quilters.
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Love those colors
Love it
sunflowers beautiful
Your stories are so inspiring.
The dream big panel set my free motion-free. It gave me the confidence to just go for it.
So beautiful
Love that quilt
Thanks, for another great visit.
Gosh I love watching you all and seeing your work! I am learning so much and loving my Moxi!!!
This video just popped up on my thread and I love seeing everyone's journey. ❤️
Hello from Tennessee
That is gorgeous!!!
Thank you for sharing yours beautiful stories and journey.
You are so welcome! Thanks for watching. -jb
What a great video! My first quilt was made with 4" blocks traced with a cardboard template and cut by hand from leftover scraps from clothing I had been taught to sew by my grandmother. This was in the mid 70's long before rulers and rolling cutters :). I sewed enough blocks together to make both a twin size top and bottom. When it was time to tie the quilt, my father volunteered to help me by laying on the floor under some two by fours and saw horses he put together that we thumbtacked the quilt to to help me match the corners of the squares on the bottom with the corners of the squares on the top. (very fond memory). I made a second similar one a few years later and both of them have been well used though the years by my children and now my grandchildren.
What a sweet memory. Thank you for sharing.
You guys! I love watching these live videos. Having met each of you (however briefly) at academy makes these sessions so endearing. I’m sure it must be the same for first time viewers. These have replaced the impersonal television shows.❤️
My first quilt was a rail fence. Long before I knew how important it was to be accurate. It was so wonky. After a while it became the dogs quilt. He loved it! LOL Over the years I've gotten better but I don't worry too much about perfection. My quilts are perfect for my imperfect friends!
Thanks for sharing!
I like all the quilts but the stories about each one are what make them truly special to me. Thank you for sharing.
Wow this is not what I was expecting and I loved it! Loved seeing your gorgeous quilts and hearing your stories. I am on the hunt for a long arm and stumbled across this.
I made my first quilt with the help of my grandma at the age of 9, using six inch squares cut with scissors (poorly cut haha) and then hand tied. This was in the early 90s so while the colors are not what I would choose now I still love it. I didn’t really start quilting again until a few years ago. ❤️
Thank you so much! We're glad you found it. Obviously we all love those old tied quilts. -jb
My first quilt I designed, calculated yardage, pieced, and quilted on a rented machine. I have never done that again, but it was a great experience. It is a quilt for the bed in our RV.
Didn’t know you could rent sewing machines. Interesting.
@@caroltevis1886 The longarm sewing machine was rented and I used a pantograph. Longarm rentals are not common, but they are out there.
Nice idea
Thanks for your humble Revelations of your beginnings with quilting . I used to be a wool spinner until I developed an allergy to it . But one thing that I have taken with me into quilting was my preference for the more primitive styles . Absolutely love all of your first attempts and in fact prefer them to the more "perfect " . After doing my spinning so perfect that it may as well have been shop bought , I started to spin ' bumps 'into the wool . I have found myself sort of doing the same with my quilts . Just get it done is a great adage . Of course I can also totally admire the more perfect ones . Love it that my grand daughter has made a few quilts , it must be catching !!! A thousand times thank you for sharing . So enjoyed your post . Cheers from Pat nz xx
Thank you so much Pat! :)
My first quilt was a Dresden that I cut with scissors and cardboard in 1970. I never finished it as I was sewing it by hand and I had a baby, a toddler and farm animals to care for, etc. Next I tried a 9 patch on my domestic and tied it because I didn't know anything else to do. The internet today makes learning new things easy and hearing your quilting journeys and growth was enjoyable. Love your quilts. Finishing my quilts with my longarm now is so much easier!
I absolutely love your Kaffe Fassett quilt!!
I did my first quilt because I always wanted to make quilts ever since I saw some in America. I never took a chance to do them until my later years when I invested in a.very nice sewing machine and learned from videos on the net the basics of quilts making. For me, ti was a true therapy as I was going through some very bad stuff and it was a very nice way to recover from many awful things some people put me through. I only wish I had started earlier. I love all your stories and though mine is different I can relate to your own. Quilts are really nice and always tell a story and speaks of homes, warmth , comfort, peace, safe places and beauty, all of which being in such great need in the world we live in.
Love that quilt with houses. It’s inspirational, thank you.
Loved watching this! 💕
Great video! I loved seeing your journeys and hearing the stories. Thanks for sharing!
I am obsessed with the Dream Big panels as well, I have done 11 and still going strong and yes, each one I get better and better. I have an Infinity and just love it. Keep the videos coming, love them.
That is awesome!
My first quilt was “trip around the world “. I was challenged to make the top over a weekend: from finding a place to buy fabric to finished top. I was proud that I completed the challenge and was then told: now you have to quilt. Of course, didn’t know anything about quilting. I sewed it together with 5 lines of quilting. The quilt is 90x100. “Finished 1998”. This past month, I put it on my long arm and really quilted it. So, never to late to finish a quilt: completely finished 2020.
Wow! That's amazing.
Loved Johnny's story about his Mom.
When I was just born, my Great Grandmother had a quilt made for me by a friend of hers that made quilts for all the babies, including my Mom when she was born. I took a sewing class in school when I was a kid and learned to make clothing. When I was about 13 or 14, I wanted to make me a quilt. I saved up my money from babysitting and purchased purple and white fabric. I made squares, probably about 10 or 11 inches and then pieced them together on a sewing machine that my Dad had bought to tailor jeans when we were in school because my Mom was no longer living with us. I knew I had to put something in between the top and the bottom so I saved up more babysitting money and bought some batting. I tied that quilt with white and purple yarn and then realized I had no idea what to do for the binding. Years later, I finally decided to get some wide satin ribbon and was going to use that to finish the quilt and carried that quilt in a bag for years since I did not have a sewing machine any longer and I was married and pregnant and had no room to pull out that huge quilt. Unfortunately that quilt was never finished and I never could figure out what happened to it. Now, over the last 9 years, I have 3 sewing machines and for the last year I have had my new longarm and have been able to complete 16 quilts that I have made for myself, given to my daughter, given to my Grandkids, given to my neighbors and friends. Thanks to the internet and seeing quilts like yours for ideas, I have learned from every quilt I make and will remain doing so for many years to come. Thanks for sharing your stories..
I love that Dana! So beautiful. Glad you're enjoying the journey.
Cute love the log cabin
Just wanted to be the first to wish you much success... I can't wait!
I come from an era of home sewn starting with my mother, who made all of mine and my sisters just older's clothes. We are 5 sisters and of all only one doesn't sew. I am the baby but I'm old now. The 2 oldest don't sew either anymore or not at all. The other 2 inspire me. Being the baby I never wanted to start at the beginning of anything. I always wanted my work to be just as good as my others sisters so I would always go straight for the more complicated quilts. My first quilt was a pineapple quilt done with 2.5 inch strips but not jelly rolls because I wanted a certain material. When I purchased the material I knew nothing about how much to buy for the size so I just bought some material. Later when I needed to add to the quilt I needed to buy more material so luckily the shop owner had more, only when I got home and started cutting out the remainder of the quilt pieces I noticed that the newly purchased material not had leaves to go along with the little lavender flowers that I loved so much. I now realize that what was purchased originally must have been from the end of a printing roll and then ink had started to run out, but it gives me a story now to tell, which is that my "pineapple Jelly" (name of the quilt) started growing leaves because it took me so long to complete it. I still working on quilt number 2, eight years later although I have made several in the interim.
My first Quilt was with my Grandmother on the Treadle machine..,,Used the cereal box and scissors as templates.....However she allowed me to use all types of fabrics as it was mine!! I used cotton, corduroy, wool, satin, and a stretch fabric..l...Loved my Quilt...She had me use an old sheet for the batting....We then tied the Quilt with yarn......Took the Quilt to college and the first time I washed it .....It wasn’t pretty!!....I kept what remained on my Dorm bed the years ...lJust too keep her near me!!.....Such a Wonderful learning that you can’t get from a book all the stitches done on the Treadle machine!!🧵
Thankful for you guys sharing 🙏😘❤️❤️🧵🧵
Thanks for watching!
I learned to sew on a treadle sewing machine in the late 50's. My mother was afraid I would run over my finger with her electric machine. My Grandmother made quilts, but not my Mother. They both made clothes for all of us. I started out quilting in the 70's with cardboard templates and scissors and hand quilted them on a big frame my husband made for me. In the 80's I inherited a quilt top from my Grandma that I finished and tied, since that was easiest. I always sewed, but didn't quilt for many years and started quilting again about 3 years ago. I unboxed all the fabric that I had inherited from my Mom, washed it all and started making quilts that I quilted on my home sewing machine. In all of that I discovered a quilt my Mother had started and some instructions, that I could only figure out she had been learning at the Senior Center in Tennessee where we lived at the time. I knew she had taken cake decorating, but she hadn't told me about the quilt lessons. Maybe it was a suprise for me, I'll never know. But in all of the stuff I unpacked (it had all been packed by movers so I had never gone through it before) I found a cutting mat and rotary cutter and rulers all still in their original packaging. She got sick with cancer and went downhill so fast that she never even got to use these tools. I was able to use the fabric and the blocks she started to make quilts for my two granddaughters. The labels on those quilts include the years my Mother started and I finished. Now I make quilts constantly and just set up my longarm this week. Now to learn how to use it.
Thank you so much for sharing your quilts and your stories. I watch all of your videos and appreciate so much all you teach us.
My first quilt was a stack and whack long after the "fad" had died down when my granddaughter turned 4 She is now 21. I then took lessons for a sampler quilt using cardboard for templates and scissors the old fashioned way but never finished as I had to move towns but I continued on my own. I found rotary cutters but have never lived anywhere that had a group I could join except for a few months where I had to travel a long way. They closed down and I've quilted alone ever since but I've completed many using every technique I can find. My next is a stamped hand painted quilt still in the planning stages. I quilted all of mine on my domestic until a few years ago when I got a Sweet Sixteen. I love it and have no plans to get a long arm which I would never be able to afford. I consider myself lucky to have found so many caring, sharing people online and Handi Quilter has given me hours of instruction via videos so I am truly blessed.
Beautiful, love the hearts.
Loved Johnny"s story about his Mother's special quilt. Loved hearing all the stories about all of the quilts. Great segment!
Thanks so much!
Isn't it a great story! Johnny mom was very lucky to have him! He is a wonderful person inside and out!
What a wonderful show, I hope to see more of these, you guys are sooo inspiring, I''ve gotten some good ideas. Also I love my handi quilter machine, I've done lots of quilts, but would like to do more creative things like you all have done! Thank You!
Awesome! Thank you!
I started quilting in about April 2021. I bought some pre cuts from Wal-Mart and put them together in my own design for a twin sized quilt. I stitched in the ditch on my cheap Brother domestic. Then I did a second one, Wal-Mart charm packs, and quilted wavy lines on it. It was so hard to quilt on that 5" throat machine that I bought a Baby Lock Jazz II. The third quilt I went to a local quilt shop and bought real quilting fabric. It turned out great and a friend bought it for $500. He set the price and it lives on the Isle of Man. My fourth quilt I used a line of fabrics with a honey bee theme. It looked like it had curves but there were no curves. The ladies at the quilt shop talked me into entering it into the quilt show as a learning experience. I did and I won a third place ribbon. I'm now working on my 9th quilt and I just ordered a Simply Sixteen with ProStitcher Lite. I think it was delivered today. I can't wait to get it set up! I learn with everything I do.
I love that you all showed your first quilts, warts and all. It is very encouraging! I have pieced a table runner so far, and am trying to figure out how to quilt it. I don't have a long arm of course, so it will either be by hand or home machine. I've tried free motion quilting and so far I'm a complete failure at it! Any suggestions?
You can do it! Keep watching We'll show ways to get that table runner finished.
I really loved all your stories and experiences, I could relate to each of your steps..kleenex nearby. This video was so inspireing and motivational...really, thank you, each of you made my day.
Thank you. You can tell that quilting is close to our hearts. -jb
My first quilt was a heavy scrap quilt sewn on a treadle machine - old pieces of velvet etc using an army blanket as batting. Totally random 'pattern' and in fact I had no idea I was 'quilting'. I just wanted something to cover the space in my bathroom wall where other people usually have a door 🤣
The Hugs Kisses quilt pattern is on the cover of the Better Homes and Gardens creative collection publications - quilting ideas Fall 2003 😃
Thank you Loriann. :)
You’re welcome 🤗
What a lovely caring man
cute
“Collaborative Quilting” Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran😊
Thanks Ginnie. I can never remember their names! -jb
Omg I started this Hugs and Kisses pattern years ago and STILL have not finished! LOL!
Do you plan to finish it?
@@HandiQuilter omg yes now that I've seen your beautiful quilt!
Is there a way to get the quilting pattern for the vintage quilt that is hanging up? I tried to screen shot it but can't really see all the detail. Thank you!!!
The book Johnny mentions but can't remember the authors: Collaborative Quilting by Gwen Marston and Freddy Moran
www.amazon.com/Collaborative-Quilting-Freddy-Moran/dp/1402730438/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=collaborative+quilting&qid=1599756967&sr=8-1
Love it