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Mandy Currie
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- United Kingdom
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- Tell us about yourself—as much or as little as you like.
- I'm a novice quilter, presently struggling with a grandmother's garden quilt in English piecing and a wholecloth quilt in hand quilting. There is so much more I need to learn.
- How many quilts have you made?
- A couple of small ones, other than the ones I'm working on.
- Do you want to make quilts, or simply enjoy them?
- I want to make quilts and learn all the relative techniques.
- How long have you been a quilter?
- 3 years of patient stitching and unpicking.
- What is your favorite quilting technique?
- applique
- Why do you quilt?
- peace, tranquility and hopefully later for charity too
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I always admire the English yarns and knitting patterns. Though l have several, l must do several trial swatches to achieve correct tension. The north American yarns a more loosely twisted, and the stitches are wider/shorter than w/British product. The terminology in crotchet is different than ours as well. Your slip st. is our single crotchet, for instance.
As you saw on my page, l too made a GFG quilt ( but not w/paper piecing, just hand sewed regular way). lf you visit my page again, find the "blogs posted", click on the words...l did a tutorial on a bias binding for these quilts with scalloped sides that you may find helpful. Read it before you do te actual quilting, as you have to keep backing rectangular and not cut until after the binding is on to keep it from didtorting.Good luck, and be as ever, patient:)
sleep well.
know what you mean about late hours, pc's hubby et al... so..now you get my "vacation" joke. since hubs left for a week this a.m. i can do whatever i want as late as i want or nothing at all if i want. lovin' it.
...and did you notice we have added a new mqp group? another friend and i decided we needed an epp group too. so...
http://myquiltplace.com/group/english-paper-piecing
we also have an "official" place to hang out and air our pics quips and queries in a group set up for the current mystery quilt by linda hahn. links are all in one of the discussions & it is just starting. so far very fun!
http://myquiltplace.com/group/snake-in-the-grass-mystery-quilt
hope you join us in either or - ?both? -
Thanks for the tips. Now I'll have to give it a try. I've always liked piecing by hand, now I can try a new technique. I'll let you know how it goes. :)
Chris
Thanks for the comment :) Can't wait to see pictures of your flower garden. I have wanted to try english paper piecing, but haven't made it there yet. Any suggestions or hints?