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Another marathon ironing and cutting session produced an empty
basket and fuller bags of strips, graded according to value. I just can’t
explain how therapeutic this process was. These scraps have been accumulating in
the drawer for years and to have made them into something useable now is like getting
something for nothing! (In a small way, this may have been akin to how the
early quilters felt, making a quilt from left over scraps!) But I jump the gun;
the scraps have yet to be made into a quilt so there is more hard work ahead!
I settled at the sewing machine with a bag on my lap and a
pile of 7” squares of wadding. I string-pieced the strips straight onto the wadding
using a sew-and-flip method.
String piecing
On the cutting board, I reduced the squares to 6 ½”.
I wasn’t fussy about the strips being at right angles to the
edge, I wanted them to look haphazard. All I needed was one straight edge per
strip; the next strip sewn on tidied up the other edge.
I sewed two squares of each value at a time so I had the
full range of values to play with. The first decision was to place one square
at right angles to the next for the ease of construction.
Apart from that I know not where I am going with this
project. On the design wall, I started
to play around with placement.
On Wednesday this week, I will be the Artist in Residence at
the Royal Pavilion in Llangollen, 10am to 4pm. I will be demonstrating my
free-form method of applique ….. And that reminds me that some preparation needs
to be done! …… I look forward perhaps to seeing you there.
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