[Nfb-krafters-korner] Quilting another comment

[Blindhands at aol.com]

You don't have to have a sewing machine to sew stripped pieces  together.  
You can hand sew them, but then there is a lot more cutting  of smaller pieces.  
I have some tools I have gotten so I can cut the long  strips out .with a 
rotary cutter, then sew them on the machine together and then  go back and cut 
these sewn strips into  strips that make up the  blocks.
 
I hope I have not lost you on this, but I have been in block swaps which  are 
each person makes X amount of the same design block and then sends all but 1  
or 2 blocks in for a swap.  You get back as many blocks as you send  in.  It 
is great fun and it makes a great patchy quilt or lap robe.   Depending how 
many blocks you swap.  
 
I have been in them that use a certain type of quilting fabric  as  some of 
the companies come out with a whole type of coordinating prints.  I  have been 
in some that they use a common color background example white on white  print. 
 
 
I would think it would be fun to give this a try and I have taught this  
certain pattern block to a troop of Girl Scouts that were in high school.  
 
1 yard of material[actually  1/2 yards, plus 2 - 1/4 yards] will make  8 
blocks which is enough to make a 16 inch pillow.  
 
We can give that a try to do a pillow and if after that you might be  
interested in joining in with a swap.  I can investigate more to open it up  for 
sighted folks, too, if we don't have enough folks.
 
Let me know your thoughts on this. 
 
I am just looking into a quilt block that you can do all by hand sewing and  
I hope to find out at the quilt shop if they have a particular tool that could 
 be used for cutting.  Actually I know that they do have the tool and I want  
to get it and give it a try.  Summer is a great time for these small hand  
projects and using cotton cloth is not as uncomfortable as yarns can be.
 
Joyce
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