vertical

Vertical basting - basting on the wall. My latest quilt top "vertical", composed of horizontal rows of strings of different widths. Scrappy. Green with accompanying yellow / orange and pink.  

About 60" * 80". Quilters Dream Select cotton batting. Pinning standing up or sitting / standing on a chair... Considering how to quilt it.

Can you believe this is my post number 400! Thank you all for being part of my blogging with kind and lovely comments and questions over the years.  To celebrate I want to share how to do this vertical basting.

A short picture tutorial:

• the backing up first, curtain clips and painters tape
• the batting up second, same curtain clips, just smoothed out with the quilting ruler after softening the crinkles with a short spin in the dryer
• the quilt top up last, sticking to the batting, being smoothed out with the same ruler until satisfying result is achieved
• pinning as close as prefered

not shown: removing the quilt sandwich from the wall, cutting off excess batting (leaving at least 2" extra batting and 4" extra backing. Folding up the excess backing over the excess batting and thread basting the edge. This prevents loose fibers on your clothing while handling or hand-quilting.

Wish you all a beautiful Sunday!

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a celebration

This weekend my quilt group Byquilterne (The City Quilters) celebrated our 10 year jubilee with a quilt exhibition. We were able to rent a local community center. The group of 23 women all contributed quilts for this event.

I was part of the committee responsible for presenting the exhibition and making it all look good. We sorted and grouped bigger and smaller quilts, bags and framed art quilts mainly organizing it all by color. Friday afternoon we were busy climbing ladders and carrying heavy items, designing the displays one by one. The four of us had a good workout...

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These rods were perfect to display lap size quilts...

A tree full of hotpads...

Building some walls to divide the room ...

The exhibition was open saturday and sunday. We had a little lottery to give the visitors a chance to win a little something to bring home. They could also have a cup of coffee or tea and a piece of homemade cake in the lobby outside the exhibition room. 

It was a weekend full of happy smiles and lovely comments! The members in Byquilterne all took turns manning the different tasks. We had a good turn up. Don't be fooled by the empty room in these pictures, as a member of the committee I was the first to show up (literary holding the key   ; )   )

It was lovely to see how well the quilts complimented each other. Celebrating the diversity, skills and personality of all the members. Thank you to all who participated and to all the lovely visitors!

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