Blog 540
What a lovely week it has been! Although cold, the sun has
been shining most days and it has really lifted the spirits (particularly the
gin which I am rather partial to!!). It’s the first day of Spring today and
Mother Nature is doing her best to confirm it. There’s lots of bird song in the
air and the buds and wild flowers are starting to make an appearance and the
feeling all-round is that we have got through another winter unscathed. It’s
just over a year ago this week that we became aware of the devastating effects
of the Covid pandemic and the restrictions it was going to place on our lives.
From ‘not having time to do things’ we moved to ‘having all the time in the
world to do what we wanted’ and yet I wonder how many took advantage of this
situation. Now weekly walks with family or friends have become much anticipated
and really precious because nothing can take the place of just being together
and having a chat, it’s as simple as that!
My indoor creative time has been spent (almost) completing
the scrap quilt which I started at the beginning of lockdown. I used a walking
foot and let the sewing machine do the work. All I had to do was battle the
bulk of it under the needle. It became less of a fight when I started to roll
the edges in. I cut the binding from the same fabric as the back of the quilt
and added that. It warms me of an evening when I am hand sewing it down.
Machine quilting
On the design wall, I have been playing with the remaining
rectangles. I decided to sew two together to make a square with one light and one
dark. I set up a production line by my sewing machine with lights on one side
and darks on the other and just fed them through using a string piecing method.
As I was separating them I placed them in piles with the
dark fabric on top. This made it easier to place the squares under the iron and
press them from light to dark. I shall carry on doing a few each time I go into
my room. The piles of rectangles will diminish and the piles of squares will
increase and be ready to use as building blocks for the next Linus quilt(s)
The scrap quilt looks lovely. 'Waste not want not' as the saying goes and look what you've produced from scraps that some people would have binned. Well done. G x
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ReplyDeleteMany many scrap quilts have passed under the sewing machine which just goes to show what a mass of fabric I have accumulated over the years. X