{"id":166,"date":"2013-08-04T15:16:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T14:16:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2013-08-04T15:16:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-04T14:16:41","slug":"honors-memories-my-venture-into-quilting","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/?page_id=166","title":{"rendered":"Honor&#8217;s Memories &#8211; My venture into Quilting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to make more use of my quilting and hopefully make a bit more\u00a0 of a business out of them.<\/p>\n<p>(Sorry about the picture quality I wanted to make it quick\/easy to upload, if you think I need full quality images let me know and I&#8217;ll alter them.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I decided to blog the making of one for some friends Wedding recently and get your feed back and ideas.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-167\" title=\"A plan of the quilt was made and the fabric cut to size as needed.\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-1-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The plan was made up using a spreadsheet programme (I find this is the best way for me, I can edit it, manipulate it all I like, but the sizes stay the same.) The fabric was cut to the sizes needed &#8211; this was very much a case of I need 3 of this colour of this size, 2 of that and 4 of the other, next colour!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-168 alignleft\" title=\"blog picture 2\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-2-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"The fabric is put into sets\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I decided to make this quilt in &#8216;columns&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>So each &#8216;column&#8217; is pinned together in order.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;column&#8217; is given a number so I can keep track of it and keep it in order!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-170\" title=\"blog picture 4\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-4-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"155\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-171\" title=\"blog picture 5\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-5-213x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"128\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-6.jpg\">\u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-172\" title=\"blog picture 6\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-6-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"145\" height=\"201\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-3.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Each &#8216;column&#8217; was pieced together on the sewing machine and then over-locked ( joins and the outer edges of each &#8216;column&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-173\" title=\"blog picture 7\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-7-107x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-174\" title=\"blog picture 8\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-8-145x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"136\" height=\"300\" \/>\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-175\" title=\"blog picture 9\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-9-157x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"144\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Each &#8216;column&#8217; was joined together in numerical order, and the spacing between the pieces checked and fixed,<a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-177 alignright\" title=\"blog picture 11\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-11-171x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"171\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>so that I got the pattern I was after!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This &#8216;Adapted Traditional Wedding Quilt&#8217; had the opportunity to adapted the pattern further, allowing me to include pieces made from the bride and grooms old clothing &#8211; these pieces created their own chasing pattern intergrated into the main pattern.\u00a0 I&#8217;m really interested in reusing fabics where possible and bringing together old clothes from before their married life together into the quilt really appealed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-12.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-178 alignleft\" title=\"blog picture 12\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-12-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The joining together was a slow and steady job \u2013 each part <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">being checked and double checked to ensure that it all fitted together.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Each section was then pieced together <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">and the in-gutter stitching done for each <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">section (apart from the very top and bottom pieces of each column and the two side columns!)<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-179\" title=\"blog picture 13\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-13-220x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"283\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">This is the bit where bigger quilts become a real challenge!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Details of the Bride, Groom and\u00a0 the wedding itself were then hand stitched onto some of the final pieces.<a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-14.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-180\" title=\"blog picture 14\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-14-284x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>These pieces then joined the final columns and then section of the quilt!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-16.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-182\" title=\"blog picture 16\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-16-300x220.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-181\" title=\"blog picture 15\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-15-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"274\" height=\"186\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The final <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">quilt was so big that I had to hang it over the banister to piece the sections together!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Once the final piecing was completed, the edging and final backing was put on and joined up. (This is a fleece backed quilt rather than a &#8220;sandwich&#8221; one!) <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The final pieces recieved their in-gutter stitching and I was left with the job of tidying up each section \u2013 This is a hand sewing job and took many minutes (hours!) sitting on the stairs, tying, threading and hiding the threads.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-17.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-183\" title=\"blog picture 17\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-17-300x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Finally, the quilt was completed and &#8216;tested&#8217; on our bed (mainly to check the seams and then to do the folding and packaging!)<\/span><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-18.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-184 alignright\" title=\"blog picture 18\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-18-300x250.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-20.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-186 alignleft\" title=\"blog picture 20\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-20-300x136.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"195\" height=\"88\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I&#8217;ve made a few other quilts in a variety of sizes, shapes and materials.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman,serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-25.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-191\" title=\"blog picture 25\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-25-119x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"107\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-24.jpg\">\u00a0<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-190\" title=\"blog picture 24\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-24-229x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wall Hangings<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">King Size Quilts<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Suduko Quilts, keep warm quilts and children(s) designed ones too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-188\" title=\"blog picture 22\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-22-300x235.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"237\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-23.jpg\">\u00a0 <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-189\" title=\"blog picture 23\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-23-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-23.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-26.jpg\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-187\" title=\"blog picture 21\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-21-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"182\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-192\" title=\"blog picture 26\" src=\"http:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/blog-picture-26-274x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"185\" height=\"202\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve even done covers for computer trolleys at school!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So, the questions go;<\/p>\n<p>Do you think you&#8217;d buy something like this (for yourself or someone else)?<\/p>\n<p>and\u00a0 how much?<\/p>\n<p>Be honest! Im interested in your thoughts and feedback (and orders too!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been wanting to make more use of my quilting and hopefully make a bit more\u00a0 of a business out of them. (Sorry about the picture quality I wanted to make it quick\/easy to upload, if you think I need full quality images let me know and I&#8217;ll alter them.) &nbsp; I decided to blog [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-166","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therobinsonfamily.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}