Scrappy Irish Chain….

Is finished!!  one down and I won’t even say how many more to go!  I’m just glad to have one more quilt top finished completely.  I got the binding finished on it yesterday, all that is left to do is add a label on the back.  Click on photo’s to enlarged if you want.  I used King Tut cotton variegated thread, this color was called Patriotic.  It is of course in red/blue/& instead of white it is more of a tan.  I used a tan swirl backing fabric and I always use Quilters Dream 100% cotton batting in the request loft (the lightest).  When washed it shrinks up just a little bit giving it an antique look to the finish.   This quilt finishes out at about 56 inches x 70 inches.  I made the top at the end of 2007 and had it put away waiting around to be quilted and finally did it in January and February of this month.

So I have a question for all of you quilters out there.  How do you make your label for the back of your quilt with all the information that you want remembered?  I have always used pre-treated fabric sheets and would feed them through the printer and have wonderful colorful labels with pertinent information and a pretty picture.  All I would have to do when done printing is let them dry and the next day I would swish in cold soapy water – dry and then heat set and they were ready to go.  THEN – and that is a big then, we got a new printer as the old one wasn’t doing so well and we got a nice new one that has something like 6 print cartridges in it, the machine is a fax machine, scanner, printer, copier — and I can no longer print nice pretty labels off of it as the ink runs when wet and also fades a lot.  I have tried every trick given to me and although the last trick – soaking in a cold water-salt solution has helped the most I can still see the ink bleed and the color fades to almost half of what it started at.    I think tomorrow after exercise I am going to investigate other printers and see how much a cheap plain printer that takes a different kind of ink is and possibly get one.  The one we have now is a HP Photosmart C6180 All-in-one  anyone else have this printer and the same kind of problems!!

Yesterday’s question: which is the needle of choice for hand quilting?  Answer is:  betweens

New question:  When did Singer introduce the Featherweight Sewing Machine?

A- 1928

B- 1933

C- 1936

D- 1939