The above is an overview of a quilted book I made for a quilt challenge. There are 40 quilted pages representing events in my life an my love of quilt history. I designed the book without any real knowledge on how I was going to assemble it. I had seen several "books" made by quilters, but they only had a few pages, and were small enough to fit into the throat of a standard domestic sewing machine. I knew mine would not, as the Pages were going to be 10-inches square, and with the text and connector fabric, the Page Sets would be 24-inches long.
As I grappled with that, I continued making the Pages. I thought about old books, and how their pages were thread bound together and glued in the back. Gluing was not an option for me. I watched youtube videos on how to bind books with blank papers - and the stitching involved in the process.
I had an eureka moment one morning when I woke up - I would thread bind the Page Sets to a Spine. Originally I thought the pages would need to be about 3-eights of an inch apart, but then realized they would need to be 0.5-inch apart since each Page would be quilted. Using the eyelet stitch on my sewing machine, I placed 7 eyelets equal distanced apart in the center Joining Fabric on each Page Set.
Eyelets were made in the Spine fabric to correspond with the ones on the Page Sets. One of my Lamb to Loom guild members had some very heavy felt that was used to protect the cab of a tractor during shipping. It was just the right material to use for the spine and book covers. It is equivalent to about three layers of heavy weight interfacing. It was a breeze to sew through.
I started making pages on August 10, 2022, with the last one done on December 10, 2022 - just in time for our guild meeting. I received a Ruby Crown for my efforts. It took another month to get all the pages quilted, and then until February 7, 2023 to get it fully assembled.
There were a couple of date errors noted, so I "X'd" out the text and embroidered in the corrected dates.
Here are the page sets:
1 comment:
Wow! Nice work, Louise! What a fun project!
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