So despite a couple of sore tonsils, I`ve been mildly productive this week.
Sit down. Prepare yourself. I`ve finished hand-quilting Z`s quilt and so it just needs to be bound now. It was hand-pieced. It was hand-quilted. It will be machine bound.
I`ve alluded to quilting quandaries and these have all related to the quilt commissioned by my very good friend Deborah. It has already become a well traveled quilt. The fabric and batting traveled with me to England during my recent visit to my mum`s where the front was pieced, a 9 inch border added and the backing assembled. All was going smoothly.
I then attempted to baste the beast in my mum`s dining room where Zaki and his myriad toy cars and dinosaurs had taken up residence. My mum has a lovely home in a Victorian printer`s cottage. It is not roomy. It was difficult to baste with only a few inches between the quilt and the wall. With hands full of hair strands I gave up, put it all back into my suitcase and brought it home with me. Back home and unhappy with the backing I disassembled it and created a strippy patchwork back with random sized strips from the same fabric as the front as per Deborah`s brief.
Great I thought. Aren`t I clever? I`ve made a quilt with a pieced front and back. Falling asleep happy that night I awoke suddenly. ..eyes wide open. How on earth was I going to quilt it? If I followed the shapes of the pieces on the flag, it would look like a dog`s dinner on the strippy reverse. Perhaps a herringbone type design following the strips on the reverse - but they are different widths. My machine and I can`t free motion quilt yet. The dog was going to have a good fill.
I`m a great believer in not panicking. That all will come right in the end. I just had to wait. A sign would be sent. I waited.
On Tuesday, I was in Google reader and a post by Rachel at Stitched in Color appeared. She was posting about a lovely beach blanket she had made rather more quickly than she had expected. That`s because she had tied the quilt. It looked great. What a perfect solution to myproblem dilemma challenge I thought. I can tie the quilt and nothing will detract from the pattern. So with no local quilt shop, I will order the perle cotton or yarn and have my mum send it over. Living in Morocco there are no quick fixes here but as they would say, `Alhamdullillah` (thank God).
Linking up with Our Creative Spaces - hop over there and see what other much more talented people have been up to! Happy Thursday - it`s nearly the weekend.
*Thank you to all of you who commented on my Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap post. I would love to send you a postcard by way of thank you so if you would like that email me your details and I will post one to you in early July.*
Sit down. Prepare yourself. I`ve finished hand-quilting Z`s quilt and so it just needs to be bound now. It was hand-pieced. It was hand-quilted. It will be machine bound.
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| Z`s quilt |
I then attempted to baste the beast in my mum`s dining room where Zaki and his myriad toy cars and dinosaurs had taken up residence. My mum has a lovely home in a Victorian printer`s cottage. It is not roomy. It was difficult to baste with only a few inches between the quilt and the wall. With hands full of hair strands I gave up, put it all back into my suitcase and brought it home with me. Back home and unhappy with the backing I disassembled it and created a strippy patchwork back with random sized strips from the same fabric as the front as per Deborah`s brief.
Great I thought. Aren`t I clever? I`ve made a quilt with a pieced front and back. Falling asleep happy that night I awoke suddenly. ..eyes wide open. How on earth was I going to quilt it? If I followed the shapes of the pieces on the flag, it would look like a dog`s dinner on the strippy reverse. Perhaps a herringbone type design following the strips on the reverse - but they are different widths. My machine and I can`t free motion quilt yet. The dog was going to have a good fill.
I`m a great believer in not panicking. That all will come right in the end. I just had to wait. A sign would be sent. I waited.
On Tuesday, I was in Google reader and a post by Rachel at Stitched in Color appeared. She was posting about a lovely beach blanket she had made rather more quickly than she had expected. That`s because she had tied the quilt. It looked great. What a perfect solution to my
Linking up with Our Creative Spaces - hop over there and see what other much more talented people have been up to! Happy Thursday - it`s nearly the weekend.
*Thank you to all of you who commented on my Liberate Your Art Postcard Swap post. I would love to send you a postcard by way of thank you so if you would like that email me your details and I will post one to you in early July.*
