Comments on: a penny for a spool of thread I

By: Sonja Nelson

Sonja Nelson — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 13:43:00 +0000

Laura, I just love your challenge piece! This one is my favorite. You are quickly gaining quite a fan base. Thanks for sharing your work!

By: Sande

Sande — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 14:19:00 +0000

That little quilt is beautiful! I love the composition, colors, stitching, etc.

By: sophie

sophie — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:11:00 +0000

Have you seen Frieda Anderson’s method of mounting small quilts on acrylic? Flipping it over from time to time would be a bit of work, but you would always be able to see the “back” through the acrylic.

By: Kay

Kay — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 23:21:00 +0000

Loops would work. I remember reading somewhere about a two sided quilt that had a sleeve inside somehow, but I guess it would be too late for that. However you hang it,it’s wonderful. I love the way you created shading with the fabric, and the cropping really does improve the composition, doesn’t it?

By: Beth

Beth — Tue, 06 Feb 2007 02:46:00 +0000

That quilt is really righteous! Just beautiful!

By: Shelina

Shelina — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 23:56:00 +0000

I’d be happy to give you a penny for that spool of thread! You can add a sleeve that is supposed to go on top of the quilt, rather than behind it. Or you could try loops. I have curtains that have loops on the top.

By: Kim

Kim — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:56:00 +0000

Nice job cropping and the quilting is great. You might try little jump rings attached to the corners of the binding. If it needs to be reinforced you could trap a piece of wire, like from a wire coat hanger, in the binding.

By: Micki

Micki — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 06:03:00 +0000

It is a great two sided piece. You could attach a thin ribbon to the top of it and hang it from a small nail and then be able to flip it around whenever you take a notion to.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting on my work.

By: Rian

Rian — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 19:13:00 +0000

I didn’t see how you would be able to improve on this quilt with the quilting, but you did–it’s fantastic! At first I didn’t realize I was looking at the back side.

I hammer [very tiny] nails right through my little quilts. Unorthodox maybe, but it works and doesn’t harm the quilt. I don’t put the nails in the corners though, but about 1″ in in the ditch of the binding. (Otherwise it warps the 90 degree corners.)

By: Jules

Jules — Sun, 04 Feb 2007 17:13:00 +0000

There was a lot of talk about hanging sleeveless quilts recently on quiltart.com. One suggestion was to use drapery clips or clothespins.

This little quilt is great. I really like the fact that it is two-sided.