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The garden has had a lot of attention this week as a result
of the lovely weather. The heat encourages weeds to burgeon and that in turn
spurs me into action. The cooler evenings take me to my studio where I relax
into the repeated and comfortable rhythms of sewing. First I decided to deal
with the Liberty blocks that I showed last week and using 2 ½” strips of
calico, I joined them together to make a decent sized Linus quilt. Another one
for the ‘to be quilted’ pile which I will do when I get more wadding in stock. 
When I was in the mood for fiddling this week, I continued
to make the tiny blocks for my log cabin sampler quilt. They are so very small
and to give you the impression of size, I have taken pictures of the different
size blocks alongside my small embroidery scissors. Be very impressed!!
In a bid to keep using up my stock of fabrics, some of which
go back many years, I pulled out my drawer of blue fabrics. Another Linus quilt
was planned after looking through quick and easy techniques on the internet. I
cut rectangles at 4 ½” x 6 ½” and placed them on my design wall; the dark
fabrics are around the edge and the lighter ones in the centre. I chose a dark fabric
to border the light rectangles and light fabric to border the dark rectangles
and cut 1 ½” x 6 ½” strips from them. Adding these along 2 opposite sides
created 6 ½” squares which were ironed to establish the direction of the seam
allowances. (I can’t tell you how important the iron and ironing board is to us
quilters. I seem to spend a lot of time there at the expense of my laundry so
it must be a good thing!) This quilt may need a border but I will decide on that
when I start to quilt all the tops I have accumulated. I need 6 quilts to fulfil
a promise I made to the Linus project in Wales having already completed 6 for
the Cheshire region.
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