Comments on: Woven Wonder – A Tutorial?

By: Holly Knott

Holly Knott — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:32:39 +0000

I love this and can appreciate how much work into it. I hate doing any kind of binding and yours was full of it! But it looks gorgeous.

By: royce

royce — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:46:15 +0000

I’ve never seen one of these before, it’s wonderful. Looks very hard thou, but your step by step solved some of the mystery.

By: donna

donna — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 12:57:41 +0000

I saw this quilt at a quilt show. It was hung so you could see both sides. It is breath-taking. It is interesting to learn how it was made, and the problems encountered. Glad I was able to see it in person.

By: Barb

Barb — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:50:51 +0000

Hey Kim – Just a thought here if you want to attempt this again. What if you tore your long strips, quilted them together and sewed about 1/4 inch from the edge then just left them rag. They could even be washed before you wove them. The frayed edges would help with the extra weight, lots less work than binding and might help “lock” your layers together.

A little food for thought!

Barb

By: Debra Svedberg

Debra Svedberg — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:54:43 +0000

I think you made a fabulous quilt!
I’m having a flash-back! I remember wanting to do something similar for a boy I liked way back in highschool! (ca. 1980!)
I didn’t contemplate it for the reason of not matching corners, I just wanted to make quilted strips and them weave them into a quilt because I thought that would be interesting. I wasn’t going to bind them, I was just going to make tubes including the batting and turn them RSO.
I remember wondering if the weave would open up when the bed was being used, leaving big gaps, or if the fact that it’s basically 2 layers of quilt would make up for that.

I think you did a brilliant job! You should send it in to the magazines, they love new ideas. It’s a beautiful quilt.
Thank you for sharing!

By: Cindy

Cindy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:00:59 +0000

I just couldn’t resist commenting on your ‘hatred’ of matching corners. I found a fabulously easy way to eliminate a great deal of corner matching.

try this: take two 9 1/2 inch blocks, in coordinating colors. put the lighter one on top. put piece of masking tape on your sewing machine exactly 3 1/4 inches from the needle, to create a sewing guide. sew down one side then the other. turn the block one turn then sew down one side then the other. Nine patch pattern created. now using little sharp scissors clip the center TOP piece out, leaving the bottom intact, then do the same for each corner. one perfectly ‘corner matched’ nine patch block done. the blocks and picket fence on the pony quilt on my blog were done that way.