Blog 549
There’s a lot on my design wall to catch up on but this week I changed
tack completely to make a floor quilt for a baby which is due at the end of
this month.
On line, I found a variety pack of children’s fabrics, postage free, so I
ordered them and was perplexed to find that they were coming all the way from
China! I needn’t have worried about the distance travelled because they were
delivered within 5 days. Just how they do it so cheaply and so quickly I do not
know. Anyway, after opening the packet I saw straight away that the squares
were not accurate so I had to set about reducing them all from an inaccurate 4”
to 3 ¾”. I bordered each square with a bright plain fabric and then chose a
multi-coloured batik to make the lattice strips. I added corners stones of the plain
fabrics to unify the over-all look. Here’s the sequence.
For my birthday last month I got a mammoth jigsaw. I have never attempted
one so big! I have had smaller ones (1000 pieces) made by this designer (Jan
Van Haasteren) before and they are great fun to do. There isn’t an inch of
space that isn’t full of detail and the same characters always appear in each
jigsaw. With so much rain this week I have made a cautious start; I am obsessed!
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