I had a few minutes extra before I was due to go sit with my nextdoor neighbor this afternoon, so I got out my stack of "orange peel" quilt pieces and managed to put a gathering stitch around the edges of eight of them. I thought I'd spend my time today basting those raw edges down so that I can sew them on their quilt blocks this weekend. I'd like to finish the quilt top before Bill and I go down to Mississippi for Thanksgiving week because my Mother has said that she'd like to see it before I have it quilted.
My Orange Peel quilt came about because I happened to walk in HobbyLobby on the day that they put a whole bolt of fabric into the bargain bin. This fabric was meant to be made into small, stuffed pumpkins which featured six different oval autumn scenes each. The six ovals were meant to be sewn together to make the round body of a stuffed pumpkin complete with a stem. I had no use for stuffed pumpkins (no one in town did either since no one bought one), but I thought the material was too pretty to ignore, so I bought the whole bolt for about five dollars.
Once I got home, I started brainstorming to figure out a way to use the material. I finally decided that the oval sections would make a nice autumn theme quilt for my bed, since they were of a size that wouldn't disappear from across the room. The rest of the material, instructions and all, I'd use in a rail fence quilt or a log cabin quilt.
I think I have about half of the orange peel sections basted and sewn to their blocks already. I should get another large bunch of them basted and ready to sew tomorrow. Who knows, I might manage to get this quilt top completed by the end of this weekend--if it stays cold--if it warms back up, I'll have to work outside on the yard some more.
My Orange Peel quilt came about because I happened to walk in HobbyLobby on the day that they put a whole bolt of fabric into the bargain bin. This fabric was meant to be made into small, stuffed pumpkins which featured six different oval autumn scenes each. The six ovals were meant to be sewn together to make the round body of a stuffed pumpkin complete with a stem. I had no use for stuffed pumpkins (no one in town did either since no one bought one), but I thought the material was too pretty to ignore, so I bought the whole bolt for about five dollars.
Once I got home, I started brainstorming to figure out a way to use the material. I finally decided that the oval sections would make a nice autumn theme quilt for my bed, since they were of a size that wouldn't disappear from across the room. The rest of the material, instructions and all, I'd use in a rail fence quilt or a log cabin quilt.
I think I have about half of the orange peel sections basted and sewn to their blocks already. I should get another large bunch of them basted and ready to sew tomorrow. Who knows, I might manage to get this quilt top completed by the end of this weekend--if it stays cold--if it warms back up, I'll have to work outside on the yard some more.
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I might even have enough of the squares to make two quilts depending on how I finally decide to arrange the blocks.
I have around 20 of the oval sections left to be prepared before being sewn onto blocks. That's about 5 afternoons of hand sewing before I can take it to my sewing machine.
I have read up on every nasty sewing shortcut that anyone has ever dared commit and I use them every chance I get.
One thing that helps is the same idea I have about yard work--spend 15-30 minutes doing it every day without fail. You'd be surprized how fast it adds up.
Both my grandmothers were DEVOTED to their sewing machines and they never understood why some people still insist on sewing their quilts by hand rather than use a sewing machine. My father's mother could really make her old treadle sewing machine fly.