I'm not really a quilter - more a patchworker (as husband explains, I cut up fabric and sew it back together!)
But I woke up at about 3am the other morning with a vision of a completed whole cloth quilt. I basted it a Crafty Church on Saturday, and marked off 6.5" squares, and on Sunday I started sewing. Very liberated machine running stitches, a few fancy stitches from the machine's memory, and later will be adding some hand stitched running stitches sort of Kantha style
I'm using each thread no more than once on each line - and each line may have just have one or two decorative stitches: either from the machine or hand stitched. It's taking about half an hour to do each colour - On Sunday I clocked up 2.5 hours. There may be some paralleled sections but not many!!!
And today I took the total up to about 4.5 hours. It doesn't look much from a distance
but close up I'm loving the colours. Next I need to add the hand stitching and I have an idea for the squares . . . watch this space
Just thought I'd confess to a total inability to sew parallel lines, but I don't care!!!!!!
I started this blog for me - it expanded to show BFF Jackie what I was doing - and a few others have invited themselves too - everybody welcome! Mostly about patchwork, with random comments about embroidery, family and life in general, come on in, put your feet up, and I'll put the [virtual] kettle on.
I love this! Keep going!
ReplyDeleteI do too! Mine started out the same way, but they eventually got better. Heck, even when they are not perfect, I am still tickled pink, as the only way to tell they are not straight is to get REALLY close to it. And if they are that close, they are looking too hard, lol! Anyways, from one fellow beginner to another...keep up the great work! It's wonderful! :)
ReplyDeleteThank you for the lovely comment. Unfortunately you show as a “no reply” visitor so I can’t reply by email
DeleteLooks great Benta. Parallel is boring - these lines are you - colourful,spontaneous, experimental, inspiring!
ReplyDeleteBut the slight wibble adds organic gorgeousness to it! And en masse it’s very effective.
ReplyDeleteLooks lovely, I love the different colour threads.
ReplyDeleteTHis looks amazing! Love the idea and the work that you've done on. Fabulous! xx
ReplyDeleteWhat they all said. Love this quilt
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