First MYOG project – longitudinal baffles quilt

Wow — amazing. Thank you for the details.

Alexey,

That is the most beautiful quilt I've ever seen! I wish I had your "lack of" sewing skills. Amazing work.

That will be warm, for sure.

Todd

Good looking quilt, I like the all black look and the large shoulder width- looks comfortable. Congrats on the myog success.

Geez man. That is really good.

Ryan

You should send photos of that quilt to an architecture or design magazine. It looks well-planned and warm, but it's also beautiful. Excellent work.

I just started sewing about a month ago and often struggle with only a stuff sack. Sewing is tough. Your project is incredibly ambitious for a novice so well done. Looks as though it was professionally made. While I'm making stuff sacs and aprons, you're making complex quilts … don't show me your second sewing project! Keep up the good work.

Thanks for kind words!

Mike R> While I'm making stuff sacs and aprons, you're making complex quilts … don't show me your second sewing project!

Mike, my second sewing project will be… a stuff sack for this quilt :-) In this area you are ahead of me.

P.S. It took me so much time and effort to design patterns for this quilt that it would be a pity if only one piece of it was created. So if someone interested I can share the patterns in a form of a spreadsheet or alike. What do you think? Anybody interested?

Great job. Pretty courageous to go for a quilt right of the start, kudos.
Some myog projects do tend to drag out on time, but it's well worth it. :)

Supernice.

"P.S. It took me so much time and effort to design patterns for this quilt that it would be a pity if only one piece of it was created. So if someone interested I can share the patterns in a form of a spreadsheet or alike. What do you think? Anybody interested?"

That is a very impressive piece, you should be proud. If you would like to share the design patterns I know I'd be interested and am sure there are plenty of others who would be as well.

Excellent work and thanks for sharing!

I uploaded patterns for my quilt as a qear list PDF file. Unsure if it's against BPL rules… View my profile to see it. Short instructions how to sew the quilt are included on the last page. They are hardly really clear and understandable so I'm ready for answering questions.

By the way the 'technology' requires drawing patterns on a scale paper. Numbers are for 1 millimeter metric scale paper. I can recalculate it to 'imperial' units but I have no idea what are smalest grid spacing on a 'imperial' scale paper…

Awesome job Alexey!

That quilt looks fantastic. You say the footbox is "supposedly" anatomical? So, I take it did not work as intended? Looks pretty smart to me.

Alexey, thank you very much for sharing the pattern and instructions for your quilt!

Dion, though I designed footbox size and shape using my own foots as a model (drawing several variants on scale paper and standing on these drawings trying to figure out the best one) at the moment I started this thread I didn't field tested the quilt yet. Hence the cautious caption. Since that I've found that footbox is as comfortable as I expected (especially for back sleeping).

To address Alexey's question about grid spacing on imperial scale paper, I googled "pattern making paper" and found:

http://sewtrue.com/Store/60-Dotted-Marking-Paper-Per-Foot-P607.html

Item DPFT60 has markings that are one inch (1") apart.

Can Alexey convert his pattern numbers to use this paper (without too much trouble)?

Nice. Well, fantastic job, I say.
Looks professionally made.

Laurie Gibson> Item DPFT60 has markings that are one inch (1") apart.

Laurie, that's huge spacing! It is still applicable though but rather as reference grid for ordinary ruler I think… To give you a perspective the metric scale paper I used has thick grid lines 50mm (~2'') apart, thiner grid at 10mm (3/8''), even thiner grid with spacing of 5mm (3/16'') and thin minimal spacing grid of just 1mm (1/25'') apart. The widht of a roll is 850mm / almost 2' and the lenght is… I don't know how many meters. Enought for several years of MYOG probably.

So I updated the PDF file in my profile. Added new 'imperial pattern' pages after instructions list. The precision is 1/16''. Down distribution table in ounces is also included.

Alexey, many thanks for the imperial system conversion! Will continue searching for pattern paper with finer grid spacing.

That is beautiful! If you decide to make a few more, keep me posted, please. I don't have the skills to make that, even with the instructions.

Kevin

Hi there!

Just finished a pair for my first quilt. This time a summer variant with sew-through karo step baffles and Velcro / drawcord footbox closure. I was too lazy to design new pattern so just used the previous one. The pattern for the shell elongated by 150 mm to be more precise.

The karo step baffles are close to be 10” / 6” lengthwise and 5”/ 2” widthwise. It was a mistake actually. Now I think it would be better if I made the spacing 10”/4”. 10”/6” is good for “down control” but God how hard it was to redistribute the down through these thin openings! I have spent several hours trying to push down through jammings and still the down spreading is far from ideal.

The textile is Thru-hiker’s orange M50 fabric of that first butch of light 10d material that became available for MYOG. The total weight of the quilt is 340 g or 12 oz of which 200 g / 7 oz is 900 f.p. down. Dimensions: the length before down stuffing was 195 cm / 77”, after stuffing it shrinked to 180 cm / 71”. The girth at the widest point was 143 cm / 56” and became 130 cm / 51” after.

Alexey, Nice Lookig Quilt!!

Alexey you do such fine work!

This karo quilt of yours is just beautiful!

It looks so good I'd have a hard time convincing myself to pack it up out of sight to continue hiking down the trail come morning. ;-)

Excellent work!

Party On,

Newton

I'm just blown away by what you have created so far! Art and Technology have been merged.