I have been working a bit more on the vintage houses quilt (aka school-house/little red school-house, etc.) One of the challenges with a vintage top that is made by someone else is working around their sewing skills. Many areas of the vintage top have little (or more than little) pleats or puckers where the pieces were less than successfully eased in to fit.
It could be scary but once quilted it wont show that much, it will “quilt out”. Here is a block that I finished yesterday.
See all the puckering in the upper right part of the block between the chimneys and in the triangle section of the roof. With hand quilting I can work out most of that. I press up from the bottom of the quilt as the stitches go in and I can get most of that puckering taken care of.
Here is the same block quilted.
I don’t think I could do that with machine quilting. I think it would make the problem worse.
so I have made some progress. but there is lots more quilting to go!
I love this quilt sooo much and you are doing such a good job with it. Will it eventually be available for sale?
Glad you like it!…I have not decided If it will be for sale or not…normally after I finish up I have the quilt appraised by an AQS certified appraiser and then I think about weather anyone would want to pay anywhere close to the appraisal value ( I get an insurance replacement appraisal not a market value appraisal) so anyway it might be for sale
Well keep me in mind when you know the value. I would rather purchase directly than thru ebay.
I will do that for sure!
It’s like magic!
Very well done!
it is a bit like magic isn’t it
fun! Thanks
Boy Tim, given the puckers you showed us, it IS magic! (Maybe even a little miraculous!)
Another wonderful quilt.
hahahaha…not magic but it is rather amazing that they fade away….lofty batting helps that a lot!
looking good! it’s nice to see an old quilt top getting the respect is deserves!
thanks !
Wow! You are a speedy stitcher! Was the top pieced by hand or machine?
Kerry
it is machine pieced…I think sometimes that can make for more puckers
You’ll have to let us know at the end if you are satisfied with how it ‘quilted out’…that’s one factor that’s hard to judge when deciding if it’s worth putting in the time to quilt a top that is not well made. Is the solid fabric cotton or poly blend?
I will do that
I look at this one as somewhat primitive in overall design so I don’t mind some less than perfect areas.
the fabric is a mix but there is a lot of poly blend
That is rather a miracle to see how well the puckers quilted out! I can’t get over how fast you can hand quilt!
it is pretty amazing to see the puckers go away….I think I can quilt fast because I was blessed with strong hands…and this one I am using wool batting which quilts through so easily! I usually use warm and natural cotton…and that is much more challenging
Boy, you are just goin’ to town on that thing! Looking FAB!!
thanks…but my quilting hand is getting tired