BLOG 285
Let me get the felting phase out of my system first. A
couple of blogs ago, the little house tiles (3-4” square) were waiting some
stitch detail. I have completed them now and the black thread work has enhanced
them well in my opinion.
And what did I do with them? First, I stuck them onto
smaller pieces of mount board to give them rigidity and then I stuck them onto
the bedroom wall above the wooden cladding. They complement the colourful quilt
on the bed and the pictures above the bed. I am well satisfied with this
project.
I was so taken with the tiles that I made a series of fishy bricks
for my daughter. She has my colourful turtle (appliqued onto a black
background) on her wall and so I felt that she needed some fish to go with it too.
…. That was a couple of days ago and now I am stuck into
something! I pulled out my drawer of discarded bits and I started to sort them
out.
This led me into an ironing and cutting frenzy, (2 hours of
it!) during which time any bits of fabric that would yield strips of any size
and length were cut and smaller odds and ends were discarded. Very satisfying
for the soul …. As long as you can give yourself permission to throw the smaller
bits away and not try to persuade yourself that you are going into miniature
quilts eventually! You have to draw the line somewhere.
Once cut and ironed, the strips were sorted into value bags
for convenience: very light, light, medium, medium dark and dark.
All that lengthy time I was doing the ironing and cutting, I
was thinking what I could do with the randomly-cut strips of fabric. To that
fabric, add a drawer full of wadding off-cuts that also needed using and that
adds up to a project. More next time.
