My friend John commissioned this quilt - we went to church camp together when we were wee little kids. The ties were his grandfathers and he wanted two quilts made from them. I happily accepted because this quilt has been on my bucket list for a long time.
I really enjoyed making these quilts.
I did not make these the "normal" way. I wanted to keep the original width and original points of the ties. I just cut off the excess and stitched them down to a background fabric. First I arranged them all on the background, and then pinned them all down, cutting away any excess.
I do NOT recommend this method, but if for some crazy reason you try it yourself, I recommend that you use glue. On the 2nd quilt, I realized that pins shifted way too much, so I just used a little glue stick on each of the ties in between the pins, and it made it 1000x better!
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So here you can see my ties pinned to the background, and then after they were all stitched down, I cut away the excess fabric. Kinda cool looking though, right?
In the end, it all worked out beautifully though.
I do NOT recommend this method, but if for some crazy reason you try it yourself, I recommend that you use glue. On the 2nd quilt, I realized that pins shifted way too much, so I just used a little glue stick on each of the ties in between the pins, and it made it 1000x better!
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhauRgmM8kb7yi4zldxhapx-b1vkvarCnBYCYe4cvA12_PQ9opdnxbfiJYcsCo1iFdFHJgJnjpntfr_G3g5fIqAlReiKIuThATldZOeEKIwygZIMg_uPuYtz_wtd2WYa38smZoFdAmTw/s200/a6.jpg)
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So here you can see my ties pinned to the background, and then after they were all stitched down, I cut away the excess fabric. Kinda cool looking though, right?
In the end, it all worked out beautifully though.
Below you can see the 3 stages of my corner fans. I started by sketching the fan shape onto freezer paper. I ironed the freezer paper to the quilt, and then quilted the outline. I removed the paper, and for the center lines, I just took the dull side of a butter knife and gently pressed against my ruler so that I had my quilt guidelines. I don't know how this quilt will be laundered so I didn't want to use any type of marking utensil, even chalk!
The back of the quilt is a print of blue birds. John's grandfather loved birds, and also the color blue.
I think this is my favorite photo of the quilt - I love this closeup
A few other closeup shots.
This is the first quilt, it's a few inches smaller and the stippling in the background was much more dense.
This is the second quilt I made, it's a few inches bigger, and I had to make the circle bigger in the center to accomodate the ties. And since the whole quilt was bigger, I also made the corner fans a bit larger too. I also thought the stippling done inthe first quilt was a hair TOO dense, so I made this one a little more open - I think it more appropriately matches the quilting in the ties and the fans.
My run-down old fence - I hope I can hang many more quilts on it. ;c)
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