Quilting
All the cool kids are doing it.
Because girliejones and catundra and others have, I'm gonna too!
Our Virtual Quilting group started this month and we all received our material with excitement.
I have never done this sort of thing before.
The centre weave design did not work quite as I hoped, I think for two main reasons:
1. There were 6 strips each way, 3 of each colour, which did not make a distinctive pattern I had hoped for
2. Trying to keep the weave straight meant keeping things tight from both directions which meant I was pulling both ways and I think that made it wonky (technical quilting term!), and subsequently the seams were not easy to sew the white pieces onto.
The white section should have been 5 cms wide which would have made more of an impression - so there is a lot of white on the reverse side to compensate for wonkiness.
I made the outside L Shapes larger than they needed to be to reach our requested 32cm square.
I learnt a lot.
Process and planning photos can be found on my flickr site here.
I saw fe2h2o doing Foundation Quilting on the weekend using paper which looks WAY easier than trying to do it my way, so I think I shall try that next.
So excited about the next colours and fabrics. Then! November is MINE!
Because girliejones and catundra and others have, I'm gonna too!
Our Virtual Quilting group started this month and we all received our material with excitement.
I have never done this sort of thing before.
The centre weave design did not work quite as I hoped, I think for two main reasons:
1. There were 6 strips each way, 3 of each colour, which did not make a distinctive pattern I had hoped for
2. Trying to keep the weave straight meant keeping things tight from both directions which meant I was pulling both ways and I think that made it wonky (technical quilting term!), and subsequently the seams were not easy to sew the white pieces onto.
The white section should have been 5 cms wide which would have made more of an impression - so there is a lot of white on the reverse side to compensate for wonkiness.
I made the outside L Shapes larger than they needed to be to reach our requested 32cm square.
I learnt a lot.
Process and planning photos can be found on my flickr site here.
I saw fe2h2o doing Foundation Quilting on the weekend using paper which looks WAY easier than trying to do it my way, so I think I shall try that next.
So excited about the next colours and fabrics. Then! November is MINE!