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  • 21-11-2008 12:35PM
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    Closed Accounts Posts: 35


    My mother in law is a very talented women.She makes astonishing patchworks and every time she her creativity and patience impresses me.
    photo below is one of her handmade patchwork
    handmadepatchwork8.jpg

    Does anybody here make patchworks? What do you think of my ML patchworks?I like what she make very much, but just curious to know other' s opinion :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,382 ✭✭✭snorlax


    nice, i don#t do it myself but the style is similiar to mosaic :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 518 ✭✭✭littlebitdull


    Well that is simply beautiful. I love the colours she has gone with.

    I have only dappled in patchwork and quilting. My sister is brilliant at it. Makes quilts, wall hangings and table runners amongst other things. She loves it.

    I am sure that one must have taken your mil ages, it looks very detailed to me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 chris9999


    snorlax wrote: »
    nice, i don#t do it myself but the style is similiar to mosaic :)
    yes, it's very similar.It's like a very big mosaic :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 35 chris9999


    Well that is simply beautiful. I love the colours she has gone with.

    I have only dappled in patchwork and quilting. My sister is brilliant at it. Makes quilts, wall hangings and table runners amongst other things. She loves it.

    I am sure that one must have taken your mil ages, it looks very detailed to me.

    thanks littlebitdull.I don't do patchwork, unfortunately. i am much too "vivacious":D but i try to learn and my mil is a very good teacher.hope to have patinece to learn and make at least a small patchwork :)


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Education Moderators, Paid Member Posts: 27,394 CMod ✭✭✭✭spurious


    That's a lovely quilt. I have half-made something similar myself, using diamond shaped pieces and stitching them by hand. 81 diamonds form a bigger diamond and eight of the bigger diamonds are arranged in the shape of a star.

    It's time to put the star on a background and quilt it and now I have run into a problem. It is too large for my mother to manage the quilting on her Singer. It's roughly the size to cover a king-size bed. Does anyone know of a service that will take a large patchwork piece and quilt it to a backing?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 716 ✭✭✭lemon_sherbert


    I know it can be a pain, but it is possible to do a king size quilt on a sewing machine, having just finished one myself. If you roll the quilt into a sausage and manuevre it into the space in the sewing machine. You can use large safety pins to hold the roll together.


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