Christmas Quilt!
So there's this new (to me) rug-hooking technique-- well, actually an old, or old-looking technique-- that involves the use of washed, over-dyed woolen cloth. 
Zack and I found out about this at Rhinebeck this year, when we stumbled on a stall full of dyed woolens for sale. I can't find the address of the lady who ran the stall, but she had the most miserable-sounding sinus infection. We bought a whole bunch of overdyed woolen remnants from her.Apparently, you're supposed cut these woolens into strips and sew them into rugs. I cut them into fourths and sewed them into a quilt top. It's a little scratchy, but not as bad as you might think.
(The night after Rhinebeck: Zack is doubting whether I'll ever actually finish this project)
After the party, we headed back to my house and stayed up until 3am watching late nite talk shows and old Christmas movie reruns, and knotting the quilt top to the backing with some multi-colored acrylic yarn (yeah, Red Heart!).I wonder if it "hurts" a quilt to knot it together instead of basting it, and then later quilt it and take the knotting out? I have ZERO patience with quilting, and end up sleeping under basted quilts for years and years. Embarassing admission: I still have not bound this quilt, which I sleep under every night. Knotting is so great-- you can knot a full size quilt in about the space of 1 Jay Leno + 1 Conan O'Brien show. If you knotted instead of basting, though, would you end up with gigantic holes in the fabric when you later took the knots out?
Pictures of the finished quilt to come when I get back to New Haven and sew on the binding!
posted by kate at 12/28/2006 03:29:00 PM
5 Comments:
Why not leave it tied, bind it and call it done! There's absolutely nothing wrong with tied quilts and the knots on you quilt give it a nice texture. Looks like you have tied it close enough together and it a preppty quilt!
Hi there! Thanks for the comment. It's so nice to find at least one REAL comment in my mod box in the crappy spam comments I get. It was a real treat! :D
I agree with Vicki, tied quilts are really cool. I think your quilt would look really nice tied.
Thanks again for the comment!
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very nice - I used to quilt and sew a lot, and now mostly knit, pretty obsessively. love your blog - will be back to check in! Lydia
I agree with Vicki, too! This quilt is definitely going to stay tied for good. My question is whether I can temporarily tie another quilt that I do want to quilt eventually. I don't have the patience to quilt it right now, but I am impatient enough to have started sleeping under it... and the basting is starting to wear out. >sheepish grin< Thanks for the encouraging comments! --lazy kate
Tied quilts are great, if you use yarn that doesn't fall apart. I'm a Christian woman, but Lord forgive me for the words that have come out of my mouth when those knots come untied or the threads fall apart!
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