Quilting is fun! Row by row, or as a big, ugly sleeping bag
July 14, 2018 12:23 PM Subscribe
Do you like to travel AND sew? Great! Row by Row Experience is an annual collaboration between quilting shops in the U.S., Canada, and some locations in England, Scotland, Germany, and the Netherlands with an annual theme to unify designs, available in four different shapes. There are also some patterns available online and mail-order from past years. Or if you already have surplus fabric, old blankets, or any cloth, you can make an ugly quilt sleeping bag for the Sleeping Bag Project to help the homeless (existing groups are in the U.S., but you can start your own, or maybe just do your own thing).
"Oh, my," she gasped, some of those row quilts are not laid out in rows.
I've seen some very cute row quilts, but haven't made one yet, as they look like a lot of effort. I won't call it work.
posted by puddledork at 5:02 PM on July 14, 2018
I've seen some very cute row quilts, but haven't made one yet, as they look like a lot of effort. I won't call it work.
posted by puddledork at 5:02 PM on July 14, 2018
This post is brought to you in part by my wife. She started quilting last summer, and a year later, she's made 10 quilts, with another three in progress. She started with nine-block quilts, and this summer learned pineapple and lone star. She went to a few local quilting shops with a fellow quilter and picked up some of the row by row patterns. And then her parents went on a road trip, and they went crazy -- my wife has 24 patterns, and her mom has talked relatives into hitting up more quilting stores to expand my wife's list of potential quilts/rows. Some of them do look daunting, but she's pretty excited about a few of the ones she has in her "to-do" list :)
posted by filthy light thief at 7:10 PM on July 14, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by filthy light thief at 7:10 PM on July 14, 2018 [2 favorites]
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Zhuangzi tells a parable along the same lines, and it's one of my most cherished: posted by ragtag at 1:24 PM on July 14, 2018 [7 favorites]