Comments on: Very Secret Mysteries, no. 5: Quilting

By: mollydot

mollydot — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:38:39 +0000

@longtime: I used to have a craft book called something like Family Creative Craft Book. IIRC, they had a skirt made out of ties!

@Léan: I’ve made a couple of hooked rugs. We did one in school, then I continued a bit afterwards. My school one was from a kit – a cartoony pig. My dad designed a Japanese pine one, then I made a Mandelbrot one in fire colours. I’m proudest of that one – I wrote a program to generate the Mandelbrot, outputting different characters for each colour. It ran for about 8 hours overnight! Next, but unfinished, was one based prehistoric carvings, but not as interesting as the Newgrange ones. I doubt I’ll ever finish that – I’ve since realised I’m allergic to bits of wool floating about, and rug making, with all its short bits, is even worse than knitting. Maybe someday I’ll make another acrylic one.

By: leannich

leannich — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 23:15:45 +0000

@Mollydot: I’ve never tried to make a rug of any description. A T-shirt rag rug sounds pretty cool, actually. Hmmm…

@Longtime: I love your idea of the quilt made of ties! Yum! Unfortunately, I think you’re right about the trickiness – and also, I understand that cotton tends to be much more hard-wearing than silk in quilts. But I bet the ties would make an amazing patchwork wall-hanging.

@Eliane: I love the way young adults experiment with fashion and find their own look. I often wish I were back in that place – my wardrobe nowadays is so dull compared to when I was in my teens. Your maxi skirt sounds great!

@Longtime (again): Thank you so very much for this. I can’t tell you how much better it made me feel

By: longtimenotknitsouthamerican

longtimenotknitsouthamerican — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:39:35 +0000

hey Lean! I don’t know about the rest of your readers, but I’m willing to wait for something good. I’ve got you marked on my favorites. Since you haven’t posted for a while, I’m just checking less often ,say, once a week. But it would take me about 3 months to decide you are not writing again. And if I ever saw you somewhere,which is highly probable since we have at least one common blog we visit, I´d check on you again. I hope this helps you relax and take the time you need with this.

By: Eliane Zimmermann

Eliane Zimmermann — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 20:39:17 +0000

aw, my first project with little pieces of fabric out of my mother’s rag box was a long (‘maxi’) hippie style skirt. I still feel embarrassed and wonder how people looked when I wore it in secondary school… but I was way too proud to notice any dissaproval! nowadays I sew little patchwork projects like lavender hearts. cheers from glengarriff eliane

By: longtimenotknitsouthamerican

longtimenotknitsouthamerican — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:49:13 +0000

Well, you hit right on my 8-year-old-standing sewing-project-for-when-I-get-a-sewing-machine! I’ve got like 50 old ties my father discarded, some date back to the seventies, and I love the different patterns, so I’ve kept them this long to make a quilt out of them. Most of them are silk, so I guess this is not the easiest project to get started on! I’ve even considered starting without the sewing machine, hand-stitching.May think about it for a couple more years, though

By: Mollydot

Mollydot — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 12:05:11 +0000

I was heading towards making a rag rug once upon a time. I saved some old tshirts, but didn’t know how to make the rug. Then the internet told me, but a good while later I still hadn’t done it. So I bit the bullet and tossed the t-shirts.

All entirely irrelevant to patchwork/quilting Um… on topic comment: I’ve done no more of my coaster. I don’t think I’ll be doing a quilt any time soon.

The art quilts appeal to me, but I assume trying that before a blocky thing would be running before I could walk.