17 Jan 2013
Since last week, added 1" of red border then a 7 inch pine cone border to finish the quilt. Well not finished yet.
I have to figure out where to sandwich the quilt. The only big area is the dining room table. Mitering the corners again to the first border was not fun. Stitched and unstitched. Spell check tells me that unstitched is not a word. Well I did it three times. Is there a better word? Those 1/4 inch markings where all the seams meet are so important and must be accurate. While ironing, a hole popped up in one small corner. Does this happen to anyone else?
It's a simple quilt, a learner's quilt.
Book to read in between..."The Last Runaway" by Tracy Chevalier. A romantic novel of the 1850's Ohio it is, but the details about sewing, dowries, cotton fabric and cotton for batting, good needle workers and accomplished ones is just so enlightening. Coincidentally, the president of our quilting guild
had a trunk show of her antique quilts (so fascinating) for us at our monthly meeting and I could just picture them as dowry quilts. And imagine the "quilt frolics" to finish them. Does anybody do those anymore, especially with free motion quilting.
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I have to figure out where to sandwich the quilt. The only big area is the dining room table. Mitering the corners again to the first border was not fun. Stitched and unstitched. Spell check tells me that unstitched is not a word. Well I did it three times. Is there a better word? Those 1/4 inch markings where all the seams meet are so important and must be accurate. While ironing, a hole popped up in one small corner. Does this happen to anyone else?
It's a simple quilt, a learner's quilt.
Book to read in between..."The Last Runaway" by Tracy Chevalier. A romantic novel of the 1850's Ohio it is, but the details about sewing, dowries, cotton fabric and cotton for batting, good needle workers and accomplished ones is just so enlightening. Coincidentally, the president of our quilting guild
had a trunk show of her antique quilts (so fascinating) for us at our monthly meeting and I could just picture them as dowry quilts. And imagine the "quilt frolics" to finish them. Does anybody do those anymore, especially with free motion quilting.
1 comment:
Really great Marie, I can't wait to see more!
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