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A Tied Finish

I am loving all the quilts I see over the internet that are quilted and finished with ties and Big stitches!

I used linen thread with  'wine glass' (actually a saucepan lid in this case!) and stitch in the ditch quilt designs for this Australian bush quilt:

Have a look here at some other great quilts:

Posie Gets Cosy

Molly Flanders

Anna Maria Horner

Blue Elephant stitches, and 

Sew Create it.

These methods of finishing quilts have always worked for me. One of my first quilts was Big stitch and Tied with stranded embroidery floss through 4oz polyester wadding, and it's still looking good!

This old quilt I find inspiring:

This is what I did on my stretched Hexagons:

Have a look here for some more ideas!

Get those quilts quilted!!!

This entry was posted on Thursday, January 19th, 2012 at 9:48 am and is filed under antique quilts, books, quilting. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “A Tied Finish”

  1. Lesley Says:
    January 19th, 2012 at 7:37 pm

    Wonderful quilts .  Love the ties and the big stitches.  I make flannel quilts and always use perle cotton and large stitches.  Well done!

  2. Sew Create It - Jane Says:
    January 20th, 2012 at 11:48 am

    Thanks for the shout out :o ) I love the big stitch and have used it many times to get quilts finished but without the machined look.

  3. karen Says:
    January 25th, 2012 at 1:16 pm

    Just loving the stretched hexagon quilt, Carolyn…and in greys too?…perfection ;-)  
     
    Thanks also for featuring my fabrics back in December (I'm so behind on my blogs!) and hope you've been having fun with them. x