However, that sample is not patchwork. It looks like basketwoven strips, not nine-patch (or 48 patch, as it were). It certainly doesn't have any of the things that I would include in my defiition of quilting. For example, it is clearly lacking a batting layer and any sort of top stitching.
It does say "Quilting 101". So I guess it could be from really early in the course, in that you have to learn how to patchwork first in order to have something to quilt next.
My grandmother produced beautiful quilts that had no patchwork at all - just two layers of cloth holding batting and some intricate design quilted in by hand. She also did patchwork quits - double wedding rings were her favorite.
I won't complain about the inaccuracy. The more people sewing means the more fabric and notions stores we'll have available. Austin has lost pretty much all of our fabric stores... all we have left are Jo Anns and the high-end upholstery/drapery fabric places.
If you interpret "quilting" broadly as "the act of making a quilt", then patchwork is definitely quilting, since the most common result of patchwork is a quilt. (The one and only patchwork item I've made was a quilt). But if you take it narrowly as "the act of sewing through a layer of fabric, a layer of filling, and potentially another layer of fabric to create a decorative pattern", then patchwork isn't quilting.
Patchwork == quilting in the popular parlance just like Real Time == fast. Back when dinosaurs roamed the earth, quilting was a running stitch thru multiple layers, and real time meant deterministic and time bounded. Language evolves. Dictionaries should map the language as it are spoke, not as it useta was.
FWIW, I have a patchwork and applique proto-quilt draped over my dressmaker's dummy to hide a 90% complete wedding dress.
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Date: 2009-07-04 01:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-04 04:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-04 04:07 am (UTC)However, that sample is not patchwork. It looks like basketwoven strips, not nine-patch (or 48 patch, as it were). It certainly doesn't have any of the things that I would include in my defiition of quilting. For example, it is clearly lacking a batting layer and any sort of top stitching.
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Date: 2009-07-04 10:21 am (UTC)Maybe. Or something.
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Date: 2009-07-05 04:44 am (UTC)I won't complain about the inaccuracy. The more people sewing means the more fabric and notions stores we'll have available. Austin has lost pretty much all of our fabric stores... all we have left are Jo Anns and the high-end upholstery/drapery fabric places.
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Date: 2009-07-05 08:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-07-05 10:43 pm (UTC)FWIW, I have a patchwork and applique proto-quilt draped over my dressmaker's dummy to hide a 90% complete wedding dress.