Tuesday, August 7, 2012

Redneck Quilting & A Shortcut

I have been working on a quilt that uses strips which are cut down into a couple hundred smaller pieces. To make things go quicker for me, I measured out my cutting lengths and put pieces of tape with arrows drawn on them down on my cutting mat. The picture below is for the 2-1/2" long cuts I needed to make. No more counting out the inches of where to cut. I just line up my ruler and cut at each mark. And no permanent markings on my mat. Easy-peasy!!

Measure once, cut a gazillion pieces!

Now back to sewing redneck style...

A fellow quilter also named Sally gave me this idea from her blog to take my sewing machine with me when I went camping. So I did! Twice I set my machine up on the picnic table and did a little sewing this past weekend.

Quilting Redneck Style!



9 comments:

  1. I could really get into camping if I could take my sewing machine and have a beautiful camp setting like this. Looks like so much fun.

    SewCalGal
    www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

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  2. Ha! I've seen people with refrigerators plugged in at their tent sites (outside); at least you can put the sewing machine away at night....

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  3. It is cool to have a hobby you want to do even on holiday!

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  4. Good for you! It was probably much nicer sewing out in the great outdoors in the shade.

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  5. It has been so unbearably hot this summer, so you had a good idea to quilt outside!

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  6. I like the idea of sewing with an outdoor view. When do we get to see the quilting project?

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  7. I better not let my wife see this! We are already lugging around too much stuff in our RV. Great idea though!

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  8. Oh yeah! I forgot to say... That is one really nice looking spot you are parked at. We don't see many (as in NONE), that nice, down my way...

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  9. I have seriously considered taking my sewing machine outside to quilt while at home!

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