This is so exciting to me! I have not been brave enough to make a competition quilt and I have never made a collaborative quilt. But you and Kristin make it seem so fun and DOABLE that I am now very tempted to try both.
You two are awesome and appreciate that you are being honest about your process - looking forward to your reveal❤ having only done a round robin (or two). Best of luck at the show
Looking forward to seeing your quilt next week. I’m really looking forward to my first visit to festival of quilts and I’ll hopefully see lots of the people I follow on IG and YT. I like quilt maths too and everyone thinks I’m weird, but the design of a quilt is one of my favourite parts of quilt making. I’ve never done a collaboration on a quilt but it sounds like a lot of fun. Well done getting it finished in time.
there is SO much I can relate to in this video! I will just keep it to one anecdote: when I first started quilting, my local store had a Wednesday night quilt 'club', where we'd pick a pattern and spend the month making the top. About 4 months in, someone chose a design from a magazine. It turns out it was the designer's first published design, and she had designed it in EQ6 or EQ7 (I forget and it was a long time ago). Well, talk about what looks cool in a digital design program vs what can be done in person! I could tell this person just went to town designing all kinds of elements that look very cool but are difficult to accurately sew. I had only been sewing for maybe 5 or 6 months. This thing had so many snowball/diamond rectangles/HSTs that it was almost impossible to get everything to fit together. It was essentially a 9-patch, but each patch was its own complicated design. When I put my rows together, my center row was a 1/2" short on each side. Thankfully I was able to trim down the blocks without too much angst, and I added sashing to help cover some of it (the original design didn't have sashing). That ended up being the end of our Wed night quilting club, because we kept extending additional months so people could keep working on it, and in the end, I was the only one who finished it. Others moved on to other projects and we just sort of drifted off to our own projects. :/
Hey Tom, I think it’s really great that you are branching out and trying new things, but I wish you would continue with your “behind the blocks season two”. Those of us who have bought all the fabric, cut out the blocks and started this project are waiting to get on with it and finally finish this project. It’s pretty discouraging to be left hanging halfway through like this. Please post the next block as soon as possible, or maybe just give us the rest of the instructions so we can finish on our own. Thanks.
Looking forward to the reveal and looking forward to seeing you at the Birmingham Quilt Show, if I were younger and closer I would love to attend.
I've come over from Kristen's channel. I'm about to watch the third video in the series but I will return to watch more of yours.
I was laughing watching at our deadline ridiculousness!! 😂
This is so exciting to me! I have not been brave enough to make a competition quilt and I have never made a collaborative quilt. But you and Kristin make it seem so fun and DOABLE that I am now very tempted to try both.
Breathing is good. Haha
Glad you enjoyed the process!
Can't wait to see the finished quilt!
I’m so excited to see this. Honestly so excited!!!
😂
Also Tom, you’re so bloody adorable!!!!!! 🎉
You two are awesome and appreciate that you are being honest about your process - looking forward to your reveal❤ having only done a round robin (or two). Best of luck at the show
Hope to see you both at FOQ; not long to go now. I shall look for your collaborative quilt, hope it does well.
Big difference between finished and unfinished sizes! You will never make that mistake again!
Grrr! You're making us wait for the final reveal! Give Kristen your scraps; they'll be gold to her!
Looking forward to seeing your quilt next week. I’m really looking forward to my first visit to festival of quilts and I’ll hopefully see lots of the people I follow on IG and YT. I like quilt maths too and everyone thinks I’m weird, but the design of a quilt is one of my favourite parts of quilt making. I’ve never done a collaboration on a quilt but it sounds like a lot of fun. Well done getting it finished in time.
I make a quilt the way you do. I spend a lot of time thinking and sleeping on my ideas. Look forward to seeing part 3 and 4
I cant wait for your _____ novel "Sew it to Completion"
there is SO much I can relate to in this video! I will just keep it to one anecdote: when I first started quilting, my local store had a Wednesday night quilt 'club', where we'd pick a pattern and spend the month making the top. About 4 months in, someone chose a design from a magazine. It turns out it was the designer's first published design, and she had designed it in EQ6 or EQ7 (I forget and it was a long time ago). Well, talk about what looks cool in a digital design program vs what can be done in person! I could tell this person just went to town designing all kinds of elements that look very cool but are difficult to accurately sew. I had only been sewing for maybe 5 or 6 months. This thing had so many snowball/diamond rectangles/HSTs that it was almost impossible to get everything to fit together. It was essentially a 9-patch, but each patch was its own complicated design. When I put my rows together, my center row was a 1/2" short on each side. Thankfully I was able to trim down the blocks without too much angst, and I added sashing to help cover some of it (the original design didn't have sashing). That ended up being the end of our Wed night quilting club, because we kept extending additional months so people could keep working on it, and in the end, I was the only one who finished it. Others moved on to other projects and we just sort of drifted off to our own projects. :/
Thanks for sharing
Great video.
Hey Tom, I think it’s really great that you are branching out and trying new things, but I wish you would continue with your “behind the blocks season two”. Those of us who have bought all the fabric, cut out the blocks and started this project are waiting to get on with it and finally finish this project. It’s pretty discouraging to be left hanging halfway through like this. Please post the next block as soon as possible, or maybe just give us the rest of the instructions so we can finish on our own. Thanks.
Yes, i agree. It is frustrating to wait 5 months and see other projects starting and going on.
Grr.i do not find the First part.😢
Oh wow that's a complex project.
Good luck at the show!