Any one who does not like bad language, stop reading! This was an
effin' nightmare! It's mainly square and mainly with a different pattern or colour opposite each other. Pinning the bigger pieces together was difficult. I need a table the size of the quilt, however I did this on my lap in the dining room or on top of my ironing board
The wadding is in the post from
ebay and I'm going to use Cotton reel's advice and use a
king size sheet for the backing. I have my eye on sheets in the Salvation Army shop, all pink, swirly 1970's looking which will look great on the back. I run out of time soon as I go back to work and know the hand quilting will take years! I won't even attempt to quilt with the machine as most of the seams are not straight and if I use Cotton Reel's method of drawing round dinner plates and side plates inside that and stitch random circles, then I'm sure it'll come out
OK. The most expensive material here was £1.17 a metre from
Trago. I won't say this has been fun all of the time, but it's done a wonderful job of occupying my holiday. My next project, after quilting this will be to make a quilt for the spare bedroom.
Any one who does not like bad language, stop reading! This was an effin' nightmare! It's mainly square and mainly with a different pattern or colour opposite each other. Pinning the bigger pieces together was difficult. I need a table the size of the quilt, however I did this on my lap in the dining room or on top of my ironing board
The wadding is in the post from ebay and I'm going to use Cotton reel's advice and use a king size sheet for the backing. I have my eye on sheets in the Salvation Army shop, all pink, swirly 1970's looking which will look great on the back. I run out of time soon as I go back to work and know the hand quilting will take years! I won't even attempt to quilt with the machine as most of the seams are not straight and if I use Cotton Reel's method of drawing round dinner plates and side plates inside that and stitch random circles, then I'm sure it'll come out OK. The most expensive material here was £1.17 a metre from Trago. I won't say this has been fun all of the time, but it's done a wonderful job of occupying my holiday. My next project, after quilting this will be to make a quilt for the spare bedroom.
