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Title: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Russ T Chambers on August 20, 2005, 09:08:43 AM
Glad your'e back Del. 
While I don't sew, my wife does and makes 98% of my cowboy clothes.  A nice quilt for my rope bed would be good, as I work on making it a little more authentic each time I set it up.

This was EOT 2004.  Wish we could get awat from the RVs.




Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on August 20, 2005, 11:56:59 AM
I split this off because I am hopin' someone will want to print this whole lesson and some to come in the future. ;)  sides that it gave me a chance to try my new found powers. ::)

The RV is simple, do what I do with things I want to hide.  Throw a quilt over it. :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Other than the RV a nice set up.  GG and I are plannin' on movin' indoors soon.  A rainy night in a bedroll can be a lesson in history.  Snow ain't bad though. 
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Russ T Chambers on August 20, 2005, 01:20:14 PM
Good idea, as I already printed the first installment.  If'n I can't get my wifle to try a quilt, Iv'e got a sister-in-law that didn't quite get blown from Wisconsin to Kansas by Slim's twisters, that was into quilts.
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on August 21, 2005, 10:31:14 AM
If your wife will just help, you can do most of the work yourself, then you can tell folks you made it together.  There is a lot of pinning to do before you sew and you can do that watchin' TV if you want.  Heck I bet with a little prodin' you could learn to operate a sewin' machine. ;D
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on August 22, 2005, 03:26:26 AM
I'm going to add a comment here on the crazy quilts.  Most of these preserved in musems and in private collections have had the material held to the backing with an embroidery stitch.  <Yes yer wife's cedar chest with her great-grandma's quilt is a private collection.>  This is another way of showing off skills because many will have many kinds of embroidery stiching. 

If one wants you can do that, I have one I did that way, but I worked as a security guard at the time and sewed at work to keep awake.

The machine sewn ones are more typical of what was a cottage industry, often a widow woman with a treadle machine would make these out of scraps from her sewing bussiness.  These could often be bought at the local sewing shop and were popular with cowboys for bed rolls. 

Any quilt does sure add style points to a camp.  Anyone with money can buy a wool blanket, a quilt you made or helped made has more pride to it.  At one time I wished to own a 6 point Hudson Bay blanket.  Today I'd probally use it to bat a quilt. ;D  But what a grand one it would be.
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on August 24, 2005, 02:17:55 PM
Good idea, as I already printed the first installment.  If'n I can't get my wifle to try a quilt, Iv'e got a sister-in-law that didn't quite get blown from Wisconsin to Kansas by Slim's twisters, that was into quilts.
'Tweren't my twisters.  ::)

Del, ya got any pictures of crazy quilts? I have two quilts my grandmother made. They are made from 12" squares on only one side and  a flannel sheet on the other side.

Slim
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on August 24, 2005, 03:27:19 PM
Gopher Grease is gonna bring his camera next visit.  By the GAF muster we may need a seperate trailer for the quilts. ;D  I'm busy puttin' all my scraps into quilts. :o 

The nice thing is quilts can be made as desired.  I will finish a lighter one this evening after work, I have so many heavy ones, the only realy light one I have I my beloved purple 9 square and it is washed and put away, hoping not to be needed for a while, it may travel to the muster though as an extra. ;D
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on August 24, 2005, 05:30:34 PM
Sounds good. Thanks, Del.

Slim
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on August 25, 2005, 11:13:05 AM
Last night about Midnight I finished a light weight quilt I've been working on.  A pieced calico crazy top, an ugly piece of wool material that was fee for the batting and a 1 piece bottom.  It ened up about 6 1/2 by 5 1/2 and is lighter than any I've made and kept except for my purple 9 square that is for special occasions, such as hospital trips.  (It cheers me up when nurses say, "I like the quilt and matching pillow case, did you mother or grand-mother make it for you? ;D  And of course the answer is "No I made it fer me." ;))

Any way the test drive of the new quilt went fine.   ;D
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on September 20, 2005, 11:03:12 AM
A little note here, I plan on gettin' back to finishin' up the quilt buildin' thread, but does any one know the proper name for that thread that is used in crotcheting dish rags? ???  It is one of the materials I use to tie quilts and every roll of it I have, don't have the center piece that give the proper name. ;D  if no one knows I'll stop by somewhere on the way to work Thursday and figure it out. ::)

Was workin' on a quilt upstairs the other night and had the CD player going, put on a Johnny Cash CD and 'bout lost it when "One Piece at a Time" came on. ;D
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Post by: El Peludo on September 21, 2005, 12:19:56 PM
Well, I was gonna answer your Q about the thread, Del, and then I realized you said "crocheting"; "DOH!", I read embroidery, for some reason or other.  :-[ ::)  My Grandma who did most of the crocheting in our family, used anything she could get her hands on.  The stuff I remember her using for dishcloths was just cotton yarn, and it had some size number.  Beyond that, I ain't any help at all.

An anecdote about heavy bedroll quilts:  I used to have one that I carried around in a GI duffel bag in the trunk of my car, that was made from surplus military blankets of several colors, that had been cut into  squares and strips, and pieced together with some sort of heavy thread.  It was three layers thick, and tied, rather than sewn - my Mother-in-law called it a "comfort", meaning comforter, I'm sure.  That thing was heavy, and about the size of a queen sized blanket.  I put some buttons and string loops on it to make a "bag".  What they say about wool keeping you warm, even if it gets wet, is true; I spent a wet night in that thing, wrapped up in a tarp.  It got wet inside, but I never got cold, until I crawled out of it.  It went "down the road" somewhere in the years past; I haven't a clue as to what happened to it.
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on September 22, 2005, 06:51:41 PM
I stopped at a fabric store today, they simply call it crochet thread.  Well I have lots of it that my wife gave me in several colors, enough to tie quilts for years, but it was only 99 cents cause they were havin' a sale.  My next quilt will be tied in a bright orangish yaller. ;D
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on September 25, 2005, 10:36:46 AM
When I get finished with the Quilt thread I am going to edit it a bit and Gopher Grease is gonna take a few pictures.

I realized the other night after work how funny things must look for some who don't do living history or even under stand.  There is a lady, a little older than me and she has been at the store almost as long as I have.  She also works in my dept once in a while so she understands things.  We also work with a bunch of collage age kids.  Diane also quilts, it really must look funny to these kids, hurrying to the bar or home work, this ol' Cosie and this older lady, out in the parking lot after work show each other new material bought on the way to work or our latest finished quilt. ;D
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on September 26, 2005, 12:07:01 PM
It's a Quilt Cult! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!  ;D ;D ;D

Slim
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Steel Horse Bailey on September 27, 2005, 09:36:25 AM
Hey, Slim!

A quilt cult?  Do ya have to get a weird haircut ta join? ::) :P
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on September 27, 2005, 11:14:34 AM
Hey, Slim!

A quilt cult?  Do ya have to get a weird haircut ta join? ::) :P
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Slim
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on September 27, 2005, 09:35:50 PM
Grab the supplies and join our cult, hair cut is optional. ;)
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Silver Creek Slim on September 28, 2005, 10:04:54 AM
Grab the supplies and join our cult, hair cut is optional. ;)
Good!  ;D ;D ;D ;D

Slim
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Camille Eonich on October 10, 2005, 02:35:57 PM
Ok...where's the pictures?  I'm dying to see these quilts now.


Please?
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: jiminy criquet on October 10, 2005, 03:33:13 PM
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Ok...where's the pictures?  I'm dying to see these quilts now.

I agree.  One can hardly give a proper 'howto' without pictures for each accompanying written 'stage' ...particularly with something as visual as quilts.  Maybe a 'howto' for picture-taking should have been a prerequisite?
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on October 10, 2005, 03:42:14 PM
since I don't own a digital camera I am depending on my pard to do it.  Not that he is unreliable but there is something come up a bit more important in his life.  also we are getting ready for the GAF muster trying to decide what cook gear is needed.  BTW the posts I am doing on it are the steps on one I am working on right now, recent events have also slowed my progress on it.

Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: jiminy criquet on October 10, 2005, 04:40:51 PM
OK, understood...you don't have a digital camera.  But you have taken progress photos from the beginning with, say, a $10 disposable camera...to post to the thread later after you've finished the quilt and get the photos developed, correct?
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Camille Eonich on October 10, 2005, 05:16:55 PM
Jiminy I'm sure that as much as Del sews it will not be a problem for him to put the lesson into pictures when and if he gets access to a digital camera and if he decides that he wants to go that far with the lesson.
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: jiminy criquet on October 10, 2005, 05:17:46 PM
By the way, here's a quilt like I was referring to...this ones acts as a cushion on my office computer chair.  The first photo shows the quilt unfolded, the two sides and white 'pocket' backside are visible.  The second photo shows the quilt stuffed into its pocket in 'pillow' mode (pay no attention to the fringe in the 2nd photo, that's from a serape on the back of the chair...yeah, OK, I like all kinds of padding on my computer chair).

(http://www.interx.net/~clps/images/CAS/quilt1.jpg)

(http://www.interx.net/~clps/images/CAS/quilt2.jpg)
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Camille Eonich on October 10, 2005, 05:29:37 PM
Hey Del....I read your lesson and I found a lesson online for crazy quilts.  Somehow I keep missing where the "scraps" of fabric get sewn onto the muslin.  Is that done all in one step while your sewing the scraps together?
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on October 10, 2005, 06:34:54 PM
Yes, thats why I'm going back and editing it.  Most of my posts are done late at night when my back hurts to much from work I wite about what I'm donig.  I'm also palnning on turning it into a seminar, sometimes I'm at places it don't work out for me to cook.
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Camille Eonich on October 10, 2005, 06:52:43 PM
The crazy quilts are gorgeous.  This may be what it takes to get me interested in sewing.  ;D
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Will Ketchum on November 07, 2005, 12:34:33 PM
My wife makes hand sewn quilts that she calls "crazy quilts" but are probably more correctly referred to as "patch work quilts".

She takes an old sheet and starts at a corner and sews a piece of fabric and then cuts another and overlaps the first, and then the next and so on.  You only see the stitches where they join the previous pieces because the next piece covers the stitches on that side.  She has made many of these and as you look at the different ones she has made over the years you can see where her hand sewing skills has improved over the years.  her stitches are much smaller now than when she started.  The quilt on our bed she made several years ago and most of the fabric were remnants of past sewing projects.  We can pick out various fabrics from shirts she made me or dresses for herself and others.  Today she gets most of her scraps from a couple of professional seamstresses who save the scraps for her.   She made Old Gabe a California King sized quilt and one for his NCOWS pard Eastern Earl.  She made another for my boss and his wife.  They have 10 kids and she embroidered their birth dates around the edge along with their wedding date.  All her patch work quilts are hand quilted.  I bought her a PVC quilting frame that takes down into a rather small package and takes up a lot less room than the old wooden one we have.

She also machine sews many quilts and quilts most of them "in the ditch" but has recently joined with her sister on a quilting apparatus that you mount a regular sewing machine in.

Maybe I can take some pictures of a couple of her hand sewn quilts to post here.

Will Ketchum
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on November 07, 2005, 01:00:51 PM
I will get back to this in the next week or so, I've been writing it as I built a quilt.  Sadly the only place open enough in the house got covered with gear being readied for the GAF Muster and now the same gear is being cleaned and gotten redy for winter storage.  I meant to have this done quicker but things don't always work that way. 

I've got enough stuff in stages of completness that Matt can photograph everything in a few minutes. 

It mighght be nice to start a homemade quilt picture tread since I know I'm not the only one who makes them.  I also slept very warm at the Muster cause I had 5 quilts. ;D
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Camille Eonich on November 08, 2005, 09:11:29 PM
My wife makes hand sewn quilts that she calls "crazy quilts" but are probably more correctly referred to as "patch work quilts".

 We can pick out various fabrics from shits she made me or dresses for herself and others.  Will Ketchum


Ummm...ya missed a "r".   ;D ::)
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Will Ketchum on November 08, 2005, 09:33:38 PM
Camille,thanks for the tip.  My wife got a kick out of it.  I had to assure it was more of my lack of typing skills and not a Freudian slip.

Will Ketchum
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Camille Eonich on November 08, 2005, 09:40:45 PM
 ;D ;D


Sure is fun to catch people's typos sometimes.  Glad that your wife got a kick out of it.  ;)
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on November 09, 2005, 12:02:13 AM
You can't tell but in my new avatar from the GAF Muster, the apron has flowers on it and I had 3 quilts and a pillow case with the same material in it and  2 quilts with some of the material in the green and white striped shirt, plus the towel in my shaving kit.  I tend to buy more material than I need. ;D
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Post by: HandTub on November 24, 2005, 05:47:59 PM
DEL
ya need to make ol HandTub a quilt so i can stay warm fightin these bone chillin winds good to see ya back to ol friend
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on November 24, 2005, 09:03:13 PM
If I remember right you are about 12-15 down on my list right now. ;D
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Camille Eonich on December 03, 2005, 08:00:50 PM
Del do you sell your quilts?
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on December 05, 2005, 06:42:20 PM
I would if I could ever get caught up, I have three daughters that don't have one yet, a neice and a nephew.  (The nephew's one will be fun, he wants a camo one. ;D)  Course my brother wants one, my mom asked for a third one for Christmas ( a 4X5 lap rope type, got the top done last night)  Oh and my wife wants a 8X7 for out bed, she thinks the ones I already have are to heavy.  By then the Granddaughter will have out grown her baby one and will need one for a real bed.

I have one to finsh for a wedding present and looks like I'll need another for a wedding.  I also have a great-neice who should get one, she thinks I'm the coolest guy around.  Seems like someone is always gettin' married or havin' babies.  And a couple more for my bedroll would not be bad. ;D  Oh I still have to finish the one for Gopher Grease that I wrote about as I made it.  The gear from the muster got stashed upstairs and I was trying to clean the shed for better storage.  well we know what happened, I got sick and didn't finsh that so I've been stowin' gear in every nook and crany to get room to finish what I have started. 

Why do I do it, cause it's relaxing and I can watch TV while I do it.  You know I was only going to make 1 when I started in 2001.  Have made I belive 15 of various sizes since then, plus the 5 I've got going right now. ;D
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Post by: Camille Eonich on December 06, 2005, 08:04:23 PM
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Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Camille Eonich on January 13, 2006, 04:24:16 PM
Del we went to the Mit Museum in CLT last weekend and they had a crazy quilt hanging on the wall there.  I recognized it right away thanks to your posts here.  I got to get an up close look at it.  It was very neat!  I wanted to take a picture of it for you soooo bad but they didn't allow pictures in the museum.  I even looked for one of it in the museum store but they didn't have one.  :(
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: Delmonico on January 13, 2006, 06:37:12 PM
Camille, the reason for no pictures in most museums is that the flash deteriorates displays.  I learned this in my docent training at the NSHS.  Some say no pictures because folks don't always listen when they say no flash.

NSHS Museum allows non-flash and I always explaine why when I give a tour.

Give me a couple more weeks to get healed up and I'll get back and finish my tread and get the pictures done.
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Post by: Tommy tornado on January 19, 2006, 07:53:35 PM
I would if I could ever get caught up, I have three daughters that don't have one yet, a neice and a nephew.  (The nephew's one will be fun, he wants a camo one. ;D)  Course my brother wants one, my mom asked for a third one for Christmas ( a 4X5 lap rope type, got the top done last night)  Oh and my wife wants a 8X7 for out bed, she thinks the ones I already have are to heavy.  By then the Granddaughter will have out grown her baby one and will need one for a real bed.

I have one to finsh for a wedding present and looks like I'll need another for a wedding.  I also have a great-neice who should get one, she thinks I'm the coolest guy around.  Seems like someone is always gettin' married or havin' babies.  And a couple more for my bedroll would not be bad. ;D  Oh I still have to finish the one for Gopher Grease that I wrote about as I made it.  The gear from the muster got stashed upstairs and I was trying to clean the shed for better storage.  well we know what happened, I got sick and didn't finsh that so I've been stowin' gear in every nook and crany to get room to finish what I have started. 

Why do I do it, cause it's relaxing and I can watch TV while I do it.  You know I was only going to make 1 when I started in 2001.  Have made I belive 15 of various sizes since then, plus the 5 I've got going right now. ;D

Del, you sound a lot like my mother!  She is doing the same thing making quilts, blankets, and pillows for family.
Title: Re: Heavy Bed Roll Quilts: Comments
Post by: GunClick Rick on October 28, 2010, 06:36:50 PM
Cut it out Del :D :D