Category: Putting Quilts Together

  • Making Progress All Around

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    Allison Rainville

    It’s been a couple of weeks, and I’ve slowly been working on these three different quilts. The Oregon waterfall quilt has been glued in place and the edges have been sewn over. I used several different stitches to sew the edges, and I’m very happy with the results. I’ve put…

  • While Waiting for the Mail

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    Allison Rainville

    I ended up ordering another one of the jelly rolls. Even though I’m pretty sure I had the name of the color I needed, the color on the screen and the color of the fabric aren’t always the same, so I couldn’t be 100% sure. I also couldn’t find the…

  • And It Comes to a Screeching Halt

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    Allison Rainville

    I tried. That fabric that I substituted in – yeah, I didn’t have enough of that. I don’t have enough of that. So I have gotten this far, which you’ll notice isn’t a heck of a lot further than last time I posted. And so the hunt begins. I know…

  • Halfway Done

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    Allison Rainville

    In between loads of laundry today, I was able to get to the halfway point of the College Fjord quilt. And now I’m at a bit of a standstill. Some notes on what has changed since the last picture: This is 29 columns. There are 54 total, so I’ve completed…

  • It’s 9:30pm…

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    Allison Rainville

    …do you know where your seam ripper is? I do. My seam ripper and I are by now rather good friends. Math has never been a strong skill of mine. Add in seam allowances, and whoo boy. We’re all in for a rocky ride. I’m beginning to remember why I…

  • I Might Be Onto Something

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    Allison Rainville

    I think I got this! Over this past weekend, I had a full day to spend in the sewing room, so I started out working on a very overdue gift, but then had some time left over. I started sewing more of the double-wide strips, and I took out some…

  • And the Sewing Begins

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    Allison Rainville

    I found sky blues. Seven of them, to be exact. A new-to-me quilt store in Rhode Island had a whole wall of solids, and I was able to come up with the blues I needed. They have all been washed and cut, and I have sewn all of the sky…

  • A Productive Weekend, Part 2

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    Allison Rainville

    Besides the Horseshoe Bend quilt, I was also able to work on two other quilts this past weekend. First, I quilted the Tracy Arm quilt. Because this quilt is so small and mostly applique that has been top-stitched, it didn’t need a ton of quilting, and I actually did it…

  • A Productive Weekend, Part 1

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    Allison Rainville

    There aren’t many weekends that I can spend all or part of both days in my sewing room, but this was one of them. The entire day Saturday and some of the day Sunday were spent working on various items. With some bonus time on Friday evening, I was able…

  • Another Busy Day

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    Allison Rainville

    My machine is home! It was gone for all of four days. It was a timing issue and covered under warranty, so yay! I picked it up at the sewing center yesterday, and it was all ready for me to go first thing this morning. Today was a busy day.…