February 5, 2011
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January's quilt
I thought it would be fun to try and do a quilt top a month since I have all those tubs of scraps to do something with. I bought an Accuquilt Go! Fabric Cutter and also a Go! Baby cutter with a lot of dies to choose from. It sure makes cutting out a quilt faster and easier, in my opinion.
So here is my first one of the year. I got my pattern from Judy Martin's book "YES YOU CAN! MAKE STUNNING QUILTS FROM SIMPLE PATTERNS. This book specializes on scraps of which I have tons.
The first time I made this quilt was in 2002 in Guatemala. I used the rotary cutter which was quite a step up from my former method of tracing around a stencil or pattern (cardboard) and cutting out each piece with a pair of scissors....but this Accuquilt cutter....Oh my, I must put a plug in for it! The pattern is called "Wedding Memories" so called because it resembles the wedding ring quilt pattern, I assume. I used dies: 55027- Triangles, 55022- 2" squares, 55006- 3 and 1/2" square. For the tiny dark blue triangles, I cut out 2" squares and sewed them at right angles to lighter blue 2" blocks, and cut them diagonal in a larger triangle because Accuquilt doesn't have a die that size. The big pieces in the center I had to use the rotary cutter for. Also, for the borders. They don't have 3" and 5" yet but I bet they will eventually.
The nice thing was that I could use up so many of those little samples that I had gotten from Good's when I sold Tropical Breeze fabric. Also, you can cut up to 6 layers of fabric at a time. Now, that's efficiency.
Ok, here is the quilt top:
Oh, by the way, if anyone is interested in buying an Accuquilt Go or Go Baby, just let me know. I can give you a good deal on them.
Blessings!
Comments (3)
Love the colors you used. Beautiful quilt!
What a nice quilt. I wonder, will you have all these quilts quilted by hand or machine?
Julia, I am debating...I love the look of the hand quilted better, but when I think of what it will cost me to have them done, I think I could buy a quilting machine and come out ahead financially.
What do you think I ought to do? I used to have the idea that machine quilting was a cheater's way to go and that it cheapened the value of the quilt. Now I am not so sure. It seems as if the machine quilting is now a very accepted way to go.