Trials and Tribulations with Quilting, Machine Embroidery, Sewing and Knitting
Posted in Quilting on Jun 27th, 2007
I haven’t disappeared – we’ve all been sick. I was so sick I no longer had new quilting ideas – not a good sign. However, I’m beginning to feel better and I’ve started working on my blocks again. Only 7 more to go …
Posted in Quilting on Jun 11th, 2007
I’ve been working on the hour glass blocks. It occured to me as I was working that I should try to get the animals to be the right way up! I think it will take me about a week to finish these blocks and I’m determined to finish this quilt before I start something else, [...]
Posted in Quilting on Jun 7th, 2007
So I sewed both versions to make the decision easier … I’ve decided to go with the version on the left (blue fabric in the triangles). I’m foundation piecing these hour glass blocks because my rotary cutting is dreadful – although I did find starching the red fabric made the cutting easier. So only another [...]
Posted in Quilting on Jun 7th, 2007
I’ve attached the border strips. Here is what it looks like so far … I need to make 36 hour glass blocks for the second border. I’m going to use this fabric … They will look something like this … Or like this … Or perhaps a combination of the two. So we could have [...]
Today I cut my four border strips. I cut four strips 7.2cm wide – 6cm border and 1.2cm for seam allowances. As I didn’t starch enough of the fabric, the final strip was in the unstarched section of fabric. I could tell the difference so now I’m sold on starching. My plan is to sew the [...]
Posted in Quilting on Jun 5th, 2007
I finished sewing the binding on the quilt – not too bad in the end. As I used a water erasable marker to mark the quilting pattern, I need to wash it before I take a photo. So this means I can start a new quilt! I have this alphabet panel I bought a couple [...]
Posted in Quilting on Jun 4th, 2007
I’ve finished quilting my Seattle quilt – the new sewing machine definitely helped although I did struggle a bit with the tension settings. I’m now working on the binding. I always struggle with the binding – I’ve read heaps of tutorials and watched a couple of avi/dvds, but still I’m hopeless. This time I tried [...]