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aliwa · Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 2406 Location: Sweden

I made a quilt this autumn. It was my first one, and maybe, just maybe, I should have chosen a less ambitious project. It is for a three-quarter bed (i.e. 48 in � 75 in, or 120cm � 200 cm) (you americans have very weird bed measurements...) Anyways. The base is some kind of Ohio Star pattern, but I put it in the computer and re-coloured it. I then made about a billion pieces, or 80 3�3 pieces, totalling 1680 squares. Yeah. Each having a seam around them, connecting them to the other pieces. I finished it off by quilting a meander pattern on top.

It took a lot of needles, a lot of thread, and a punctured finger, but I think it was worth it!

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The cat decided to "help". The entire quilt had been laid out the entire day, no problems. Within 5 minutes of me coming home, the litter critter had made a tornado out of the entire thing. And some people claim there is no such thing as conciousness in animals? :)

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IrmaVep · Posted: Apr 06, 2012 7:21 am Post subject:

Lovely work aliwa!

WorkAndPlay · Joined: 29 Jun 2005 Posts: 5649 Location: Amsterdam!

WOW! Amazing!
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Morgan · Joined: 09 Apr 2004 Posts: 2149 Location: Sweeeeden

That is freaking incredible for your first time! Or like your 20th time, for that matter! It's beautiful! I love the pattern, and the colors are fantastic together! How long did it take you?
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SlipperyShade · Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 2225 Location: Midwest

Beautiful, aliwa! I think we should hang out and you should help me finish my lingering quilt project. :D
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aliwa · Joined: 26 Oct 2004 Posts: 2406 Location: Sweden

Thank you for all your compliments :) I like it a lot too!

Hm, it must have taken about.. a billion hours? I seriously have no idea :) I did it over the course of 2 months or so. Maybe, this is a wild guess, 80 hours or so? I constantly changed the process to make it more efficient, making a small 4*4 ruler etc to make the cutting faster. But, hm, I don't know. There was a lot of ironing going on at the beginning which I gradually did less of as I realized that at some parts of the process, the ironing just messed things up instead of making it easier.
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scaredsi11y · Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 3285

I'm SO impressed, and I love the in-progress pictures.

smokingmonkey · Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 1592 Location: Milwaukee, WI

Gorgeous!

Chiquita · Joined: 24 Sep 2005 Posts: 1401 Location: Tejas

Amazing! Especially for your first quilt.

checkersumthing · Joined: 07 Apr 2004 Posts: 2942 Location: Montreal, Qc

Wow! It's beautiful! And very impressive for a first project.
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puck · Posted: Apr 08, 2012 9:59 pm Post subject:

wow. that's amazing!
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