Blog 398
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of variety to share this week
but, believe you me, there has been loads of ground covered. When you look at
the first picture you are bound to think it is a mistake! And yes it is a
picture of nothingness but I have included it because that wall is a vital part
of my quilt construction and I wouldn’t be without it. Mine is made up of a
flannelette sheet stapled onto a cork background which is just soft enough to
push pins into. It is a godsend and has been used relentlessly over the years.
Blank design wall
A few minutes later, the wall looked like this. All the
squares for the wedding signature quilt have now been completed and I needed to
start arranging them so I could get an impression of how it was going to look
from a distance. I was also able to arrange the names to make sure that the
main players in the ceremony were clustered around the centre, and all the
support players were randomly placed around them. And in the true tradition of
the quilt makers of old, there is a contrived and deliberate mistake; the idea
being that only God is perfect.
The squares were joined into rows and the rows joined
together to make the quilt top. This was put onto cotton wadding and safety-pinned
in place. At this stage I didn’t have enough of the backing fabric to include
it, so the first lines have been sewn with a walking foot through just the two
layers. As I was sewing with a cream thread this has worked well and the cream thread
on the bobbin is not going to be seen on the backing fabric. When I eventually add
the backing fabric, I will sew further lines in the ditch between the squares
thus holding all three layers together and giving a quilted grid on the back.
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