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Does anybody out there quilt? I'm not making a quilt, per se, but I am sewing some plaid flannel onto the back of a lightweight wool to make a blanket. I thought I might do some "quilting" on it - that is, sew designs through the whole thing to help it stick to itself. I don't know if this is clever or a terrible, terrible idea. I also don't know how to choose or make a design.

Edited: Simple embroidery. That's the solution. I'm doing swirls.

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I hear that quilting is the new knitting, so you are apparently right on time.

No advice from me for a few years at least, until I jump on the (by then departed) bandwagon. ;)

HA! I just want to say (again) that I was knitting before all the hipsters knitted. I was knitting when it was way not cool to spend your free time hanging out with post-middle-aged women who had way too much information about yarn.

I got the blanket idea when I found some fabulous wool at the closing fabric store. I wanted to keep it one big piece because it was so smooth and had such fabulous edges. (Green!) But it was itchy, so I got some soft flannel with which to line it. And then I realized that it would get unhappily baggy if I just sewed the edges.

Hence, "quilting." I like this lazy-person's way, though. Big fat stitches with big fat thread. Muuuuuuuuuch easier. And my swirl, so far, is messy, which makes it decidedly mine. :)

Ha!

I too consider myself not to be of the stitch-n-bitch nation, if only because I live and work on a fiber farm. And because I hate the hipsters.

In fact, my friend Jenny (who described herself as A Gay Quilter, who learned from her grandma and could make the loveliest quilts) was my first knitting teacher, about 5 years ago. We would put on our fave cheesy movies, like The Cutting Edge, and she would teach me stitches.

I now want to knit sweaters all day. Seriously. If I've done my calculations right (and I might not have), my sweater is 1/7 done.

Can't wait to see the blanket!

I am deeply envious that you learned to knit from a self-described Gay Quilter while you watched cheesy movies. The coworker who taught me to knit was waaaaay less fun. :)

I can't believe you want to knit sweaters. I've been knitting for something like ten years, and I pretty much never want to knit sweaters. Knitting socks is a heeyooge development for me - I have traditionally been wildly impressed with myself if I managed to complete a scarf.

1/7 done!! Congratulations!

Thank you!

Yep. I first learned to purl while living in the lesbo house and watching Save The Last Dance, while the retarded (and I mean that descriptively, and only somewhat pejoratively -- he really was brain damaged) kitten ran around and shat himself. Oh, the memories.

Okay, well, no one (human or animal) shat himself while I was learning to knit, so maybe I'm the winner on that one. :)

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