Yesterday during my room clean-up, I found a container of my husband's
old pj castoffs--deboned and cut into strips...
And having wanted to make myself a basket quilt for yonks, I decided to make these.....
The bases are sewn onto telephone book papers and the resulting blocks
measure 7.5". I will be working on these off and on.....
The lovely flowery bits are from a squishy mail package from Lizzy who kindly
sent them to me...I love her vintage-looking fabrics and her own basket piece...
Thanks so much for thinking of me, Lizzy.... :))
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Meanwhile,
and a Sailor's knotting --
I thought this a good choice as a lot of the
fabrics are Sea oriented....
& & & & & & &....
I first pinned the whole quilt, then machine sewed three stabilizing
vertical rows...
before beginning
the tying
process....
mat underneath the quilt....
be adding more ties in the centers of the zig-zags...
these will end up being about
a fist's width apart...over the entire top...
I prefer the "feel" of a tied quilt myself,
so much softer than the big stitch I have
been closely sewing on my table toppers and wall hangings...
for those,
I feel that closer quilting helps to
flatten out the pieces for better hanging...
[ AND: blogger keeps changing my font!!???] WHY????
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The sun is emerging slowly and it is 66 degrees this morning....
Still a cool breeze coming out of the North, but perhaps some
deck sitting will be possible this afternoon...
I need a new portable handwork project...I will be looking at what I have ongoing....
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Tonight will be "Breakfast for Supper" which I really love....;))) yum
~ ~ ~ waving under milky skies~ ~ ~
Stay safe
Julierose, La Blageuse (tying-euse)
