u/flightgirl78

Thank y’all for all of the advice - especially about hand quilting around the paper star pattern situation. Of course the quilters who came before me had invented the solution, chalk! Adding a border, yep, that was awesome too! Quilted it on my Singer sewing machine that was manufactured in 1948. The pipe insulation rollers didn’t work for me; maybe I rolled them over instead of under? The quilt didn’t stay taut. Chose many safety pins and good old fashioned physical quilt wrangling instead. The big cotton thread was a really great addition!

Proud to be an American. Proud to be a quilter. Excited to work on my next quilt; I wonder what new things I’ll learn?

Happy Memorial Day fellow quilters! I am in need of inspiration and advice. I started this quilt top with the intent of making it a smaller throw quilt. However, it has ended up being 5‘ x 7‘. What would you do from here? I don’t really want to have to fit an entire quilt through my regular (antique Singer circa 1938) sewing machine. I intend to gift it to a neighbor who doesn’t have any other quilts and is a single guy. Would you make it bigger? If so, do you have any recommendations on how to do that, including any specific borders that would make sense? Or do you think this is a fair size for a throw quilt? I’m not terribly creative person and this is pretty far out as to the extent of my creative abilities.