I have been a quilt-making machine. I have many quilts of different sizes in various stages of completeness. It has become imperative for me to finish up these dangling projects.
Most of them I will just tie. Technically, that's a blanket, not a quilt. Or at least in my grandmother's day that's what they would have been called. Of course back then, the only way a quilt could be deemed a quilt was if it was all hand done. The pieces hand cut, hand pieced, hand quilted. No machine work at all!
Now, a quilt is a quilt no matter what modern-day technology and techniques are used. But, while I am making quilt tops and sandwiching them between batting and backings, I won't be quilting the tops on most. I have a couple I will have professionally done, but the majority are just little baby blankets that I will tie with embroidery floss. They are beautiful little things with a lot of my time invested in them. Beautiful, quality fabrics.
I would like to encourage any of you who have thought about doing a quilt but just felt it was too time consuming or hard to try this pattern. And start small. Do a baby blanket.
This weekend, I made the pieces for a full-sized quilt top called the Disappearing Nine Patch pattern using charm packs. It is gorgeous and so damn easy. And, the pattern is versatile. You can create vastly different quilts depending on the colors and layout of your pieces. I did a random DNP. And, while I could have had this top completely done, I was also working on a dresden plate baby quilt at the same time.
As doyou says, SQIR LFE.
