Hi Cuties, as you might know I am not too much of a quilter but a fan of embroidered quilts.... big problem. No longer! I found a wonderful project for a nearly no quilting quilt.
It is from a book, which seems no longer
available, website of raincoast publisher
says 4,99 bucks but amazon leads to
"private" sellers.
It is "Quilt sensations" by John
Streicker and Jan Thompson.
You sew 7'' square blocks, ready
with batting and backside, add buttonholes
in each corner of each block (this is a
challange, but you do not have to make a
queensized quilt in the beginning).
Then you button together the blocks in
every arrangement you can imagine.
This idea is brilliant I think.
And it could be a great group project.
I can use up my collection of grandmas old
tortie and all the other orphan buttons.
I have to sew and quilt just pottholder
sized items, and have a quilt which coud be
different every day.
The backside is made of drunkards path
blocks, the front is free to embroider!
Monogramms, poems, pawprints, frogs,
fairies...
So the photos I added are QUOTES, if
someone consider this as copyright
violation please use alert button.
http://www.cuteembroidery.com/?com=.
..;cm=view&vl=3487565
18966 This sounds great but I picture a child placed in his room for a time out sitting there unbuttoning every square..... fun to redo again!!
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21820 Wonderful idea, altho may be more sewing than you bargained for until you get all those buttons and buttonholes on. Hahaha!. **
10659 Strange! <br />Maybe I switched too
fast between the opened windows. <br
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Ok tested and works.
projects.cuteembroidery.com
18966 Wow, how different!! How many ways to rearrange this! Now, just imagine: you could start with a lap quilt size for a gift, and then add blocks every birthday/anniversary, with appropriate words or pictures, and end up with a queen sized quilt eventually. What a concept, I love it! And now I can use the automatic button-hole maker on my sewing machine, super! Had to laugh when I was buying it, Janome sewing machine; Ann, the dealer, was just going nuts over the buttonhole feature. I finally had to stop her, and say "Ann, I have only made one set of buttonholes in my life, and that was in Home Ec in high school, because I was forced to!" hee hee hee. So now maybe I have a use for the fabulous buttonholer, hee hee hee. Thanks for this info, Eva, very useful. Hugs, Marji
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22361 The blocks in this project have buttonholes
at all 4 corners, following the diagonal
and are sewn after finishing the block, so
the batting will give strenghth.
The authors obviously were no friends of
this (48 blocks with 4 holes each, hehehe)
they recommend to invite your friends for a
buttonhole party.
You create the connectors by sewing/ tying
together 2 buttons back to back in pairs
with a small gap 1" between them, so
that they could hold 4 blocks together.
With this method you are free to arrange a
quilt or an odd shaped poetry
wallhanging.
The other suggested methods are fine, just
limit the possibilities of arranging.
I hope you will find the book in your
public library or somewhere, they have many
more very creative and unusual projects.
18966 What a great idea! If everyone here takes up this idea the book may have to be republished!
1063 I've never started a quilt but all these buttonholes ??? I think I don't go starting this either. but thanks for sharing :)
51324 6417 I'm not a quilter either but I would
enjoy this project...do you put buttonholes
on the left side and buttons on the right
side so they hook together?
Could you tell me how to do that? They all
can't have buttons...some must have
holes. Thanks for helping me.
by marietta 30 Aug 2009
Being more a dressmaker than a quilter, I would put 4 buttonholes on one block, and 4buttons on the next. This will help you to hook up all the squares. Be carefull to put only 2 each on the ends, so that you have a smooth edge (these can also be changed). The buttonholes will then lie at a angle (from the corner to the centre of the block), so that you can pull the button into the corner by having the buttonhole starting close to your corner. I would also, just before putting the block together, strengthen the corners, as buttonhole's need some Vilene to give them more strength. This will also help the buttonhole not to tear away at the corner. Hope I managed to explain clearly enough. God bless. Marietta.
by marietta 30 Aug 2009
Being more a dressmaker than a quilter, I would put 4 buttonholes on one block, and 4buttons on the next. This will help you to hook up all the squares. Be carefull to put only 2 each on the ends, so that you have a smooth edge (these can also be changed). The buttonholes will then lie at a angle (from the corner to the centre of the block), so that you can pull the button into the corner by having the buttonhole starting close to your corner. I would also, just before putting the block together, strengthen the corners, as buttonhole's need some Vilene to give them more strength. This will also help the buttonhole not to tear away at the corner. Hope I managed to explain clearly enough. God bless. Marietta.
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33234 Eva, sounds wonderful and very useful - thank yuo for the added link - it is wonderful work. *4U
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Thanks for the link
Merci beaucoup;
*4u!
Jacqueline