Southern Spirit Hunters
Beyond The Spirits => Hobbies => Topic started by: duh on Jul 24, 2016, 04:11:36 PM
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:Wow: Well I got flower seven basted. I'd have started putting it together but I didn't have the right color of thread. I just didn't check out the box before heading out the door.
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Row one is completely put together. The last two pathway pieces were hard to connect to the flower petals because they were some of the first i made and I didn't give myself enough seam allowance. And in one case, I glued the fabric to the paper piece. That was a really bad idea as it stuck tight and now it will just have to slowly disintegrate as I use it because I don't have any more of that fabric to make another one.
So I'll complete flower 7 and cut, baste, and sew flower 8 together. i should be done with that by the end of applique group on monday.
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Way to go, Tammy!
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Got flower 8 ready for applique group. i can still cut more hexagons to keep me busy.
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I cut another 9 hexagons and I might manage to cut the fabric for flower 10 today I don't know. Flower nine is already cut and sewn together it's just waiting for the rest of the quilt to catch up to be added to it.
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Flower 7 is all put together and ready to be added to the top. The pathway hexagons are all basted. And flower 8 is wrapped around the templates waiting to be basted.
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well something got basted but i think mostly it was about talking and having a good time.
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flower 8 is basted and I've begun sewing it together. Flower 10 is basted and flower 11 is cut out. So I think I'm good with this quilt while I wrangle the blooming nine patch. Carol says there is a lot of sewing with that one.
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Good going, Tammy.
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you are moving right along on these.
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I got flower 8 sewn together.
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good going.
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And I've rearranged them again. I'm embarrassed by how many times I've done that.
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I can understand that. This one would look better here and that one there. It makes perfect sense to me.
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I cut another 13 templates so hopefully I'll get something done on these. It just got to hot to be in the craft room today.
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I ironed another set of petals around their templates. Now I have two flowers to baste. Things are so out of order that it's hard to tell where I am compared to where I was.
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Well the flowers are basted and I've begun sewing the new number 8 together. I'd better start putting the flowers on the top or I'm going to have it all to do at once. Maybe next week. Right now it is to hot to go anywhere near the craft room.
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I hear that!
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here too. the craft/gun room is in a west facing window. :hot:
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you share your craft room? You are a sweet lady.
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It is so hot again today. I did manage to recut a master epp template to wrap the fabric around. I had made so many copies of copies that I was a quarter of an inch off and it was getting hard to match corners. Hopefully I did it well enough that it will be easier now.
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i hope for you. and i don't share. i commandeered his room :wink5:
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rofl, That is great jenn. You definitely got a smile off that one.
I'm sewing the new 8th flower petals together. It is a pain because this is one of those where the templates are not accurate and there is a lot of easing going on, praying too.
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I cut the new flower 10 and ironed it around a new set of templates. So I continue to roll.
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Yay!
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At the meeting I finished sewing flower 8 and started flower 9. That's the new numbering system just encase you're as confused as I am.
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got a few more petals on flower 9. I also cut about 13 more templates.
I talked to Linda about this quilt an how it is coming long. She says that I am actually farther along with mine than she is with hers. i was surprised to hear that since she taught me how to go on in the beginning. Linda was also telling me that she sold all of the fiber art she had placed in the gallery and has several more women interested in purchasing future pieces. She is excited and so cute about it. She is a wonderful fiber artist and I'm lucky to know her.
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That's great that you are so far along, Tammy. And a very good fried you have there.
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She is a lovely person. I look forward to her show and tells all the time.
Next on the list is making more pathway hexies. But the charity quilt needs to be sandwiched first.
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Prepare yourself for an O NO. I decided to work on this quilt this morning. I gathered everything up and attached flower 7 and put on the pathway hexie and then noticed that it was off to one side. I had missed the center. So I had t take it all out. So this morning was a complete waste of time when it came to this quilt.
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I'm sorry, Tammy.
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better you found it now, than when you have started another one.
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So true, it's giving me pause moving forward at the moment.
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Row two's flowers are all finished. Now I have nothing to do for hand work unless I get these put on the top. I refuse to get so far ahead of myself that things get confusing.
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I stitched flower 7 onto the top again. This time in the right place. Now I need to make a bunch of pathway hexies to go between the flowers on row two. And I cut flower 13 and ironed it into it's templates so it is all ready to baste. I feel like I'm over the hump and that this one is moving again.
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Good going!
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Thank you tina. I stitched the first pathway hexie on it. That required sewing 3 of the sides of the hexie. Pretty much the same as getting a petal fully attached to the flower center. And there are 12 of them around each flower. So more pathways than flower parts. I though that might be true for the center of the top. I hope the 2 1/2 yards of pathway fabric I bought will be enough.
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I cut and ironed 6 hexies so they are ready for basting. I plan to cut about 60 more about 6 each day so that I'm ahead on those. That will finish off the first yard and let me know if I have enough for the complete quilt. I so hope so. Fingers crossed.
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getting there.
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Last night I finished adding 6 pathway hexagons on flower 10. I had started them a while back and then stopped when I realized that I didn't need them all the way around because the flowers in row one already had pathway hexagons and that the one preceding 10 would also have them. So the ones for this row only need 6 sewn on. Then I started on the sides of them. Didn't quite finish that but since I can do it in front of the tv I don't expect that to take to long.
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I finished up the sides to the six so it is ready to put on the quilt when I get there. I cut another 6 pathway hexagons and ironed them around their templates. I'll need most of those for flower 7. So I need to cut at least another 6 to catch up with myself.
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Ok I have basted pathway hexagons for flower 7, 8, and 9 and flower 10 has already got it's hexagons added. So I would say the second row is moving right along. I feel like I'm back on track with this one. And that is good because I'll be starting my other classes in September.
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I'm confused again. I just made another 4 pathway hexagons and put them with flower 9 so they can be basted and then sewn to the flower and then added to the top. I'm not sure how my count got off but it did.
I need to figure out if I'm going to have enough fabric to do all the of the pathway hexagons in the fabric I have. if not
i'm going to need suggestions as to what to do. What a problem to face at this point.
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that hurts tammy. i hate that for you.
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Well I'm still hobbling along hoping for the best. So far I think I've figured out that I'll need 432 hexagons that require 3 3/8th inch with of fabric for 10 hexagons. I just can't figure out how long a piece of fabric that is. I don't know why my mind just won't work it out. But I'm stumped.
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I'm stumped too.
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Well while I wrestled with that I got all but one hexagon sewn around flower 7 which is good. This morning I managed to cut and iron 6 more hexagons so they are ready for basting. I'm ahead on doing that and need to cut more flowers and of course the major part of the work getting the flowers on the flimsy is where I am farthest behind. I have no idea where I am as far as on track for the 3 1/2 year deadline. I may look that up and work it out at some point.
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The final hexagon is sewn around flower 7 so I consider it fully attached to the flimsy. Whew! I hope it will get easier as it goes along.
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I have started sewing flower 8 to the flimsy. It's a bit of work but it is progress.
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I don't have enough of the pathway fabric to complete the quilt. I need another 2 yards. I thought I could use some contrasting white and gold that I had but it isn't enough either it's only about a yard and a 3rd. Grrrrh. I'll have to look around and see what I can find.
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I ended up buying two yards of a fabric that should work. I've got my fingers crossed anyway. i didn't do anything on the top because I just couldn't get into it.
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i hope you have something in your stash. it hurts when you have to buy things you aren't prepared for.
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buying anything hurts lol. I'm just not the shopper I once was.
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Well it is Monday. The day to work on this. I think I've got it figured out as far as what has to come off. First I'll make sure that all the hexagons that have to come off are still basted so I dont have the epp templates coming adrift. Then I'll carefully begin the process of frogging all of the border hexagons. I'm glad they have coffee at this meeting.
I was going to make a mandarin orange and almond salad for today's potluck but I'll buy some egg salad at walmart. I just can't get going today. I need to be one the road by 8:00a.m. and I'm still in my bathrobe. Some boot me in the you-know-where and get me going.
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I had a "v-8" moment. i can frog the top and bottom and make the outside an inside row. That way I only have to frog a few.
I'm going to have to make templates for all the former interior hexagons because of course i had already pulled those and reused them. But I'll get there.
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Well I dug them out of the bag since I needed the small scissors that were in there and now they are over by the iron where they need to be. I wouldn't get so far behind if I wasn't doing more than one thing at a time.
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I got them ironed flat and all gathered up in one place. And today I got the flower I was working on completely sewn onto the top. Now I just have to add one more pathway hexie to it and it is done and I can go on to the next one. Polly told the fire story about this type of quilt. But i don't think there is a way to make a quilt and not mourn it if something happens to it.
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Good work today, Tammy.
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I got the odd pathway hexie in and started on adding flower 9 to the top.
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Don't ask me how but black ended up against black. I'll look at it later.
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Well I looked at it but it appears right even though it is black against black. I have no idea how it happened but I'm going to continue to soldier on with it. So now it's in it's bag with thread, scissors, needles, and a thimble.
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I took it to applique and started flower number 10 on it. I thought I was farther along but then don't I always.
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Keep on plugging away. I admire that.
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I ironed all of the templates that I took out of the quilt top. Now it is time to cut again but I can't until I pin charity quilt 14 60's Circles. And I won't do that until I fix the problems with 15 Tropical Seascapes. Arrrrrgh.