[Nfb-krafters-korner] Ramona: Christmas Quilting by Hand

[Lillie Pennington]

Hi Cathy, 

This is awesome.
These success stories are probably one of my most favorite things about this
list. 

I've been working on a quilt for the last year and a half where I am sewing
together different fleese squares left over from when my grandmother cut the
strips for no-sew fleese blankets. 
Another trick you may try for your seaming is to pin the side in which you
are sewing. This may help hold the fabric in place as well as keep it
straight. 



Keep us updated on our progress and good luck. 

Lillie
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Ramona: Christmas Quilting by Hand

I have been having so much fun!  Ramona, your chat was so inspiring!  I went
back to my local quilting store and got them to cut a yard each of green and
red Christmas-print, cotton fabric into 6.5-inch squares.  My husband says
the print is very pretty, little white flowers.  I have three of the squares
sewn together already.  For now I'm simply putting a green and a red square
together, wrong sides together, and hand stitching down one side.

I never have been able to cut a straight line, even when I could see and
even with the sharpest fabric shears.  I let that keep me from starting a
quilt before I was too blind to sew them together.  Now I don't consider it
cheating any longer to let the store cut the squares for me. Every square is
perfect!

I was worried about sewing a straight line, but I'm using my thumb to gauge
the distance from the edge of the fabric.  I'm also trying to get the seam
about half an inch from the edge.  I don't know if my seams are quite
straight, but I'm sewing the seam twice for added strength.  When I finish
the seam and spread out the seam allowance on the back, it seems to be
pretty straight.  I think after everything is pressed it will be fine.

This is going to be so pretty!  It will be my Christmas season lap quilt.  

My exercise partner told me she wishes she had enough patience to sew a
quilt.  But she reads with her eyes so she can't enjoy a nice talking book
while her hands stitch away the hours.

Bye for now.  Gotta go work on my Christmas lap quilt. 

Thank you, Ramona.

Cathy Miller

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