Wedding Quilt Phase 2
Wedding Gift Quilt
A work in progress
Making a quilt top, hand quilt over the summer-Ugh! It gets hot under a quilt and then the thread sticks to your fingers and i get all sticky.
Think, think, think. Travel back to my first years of quilting - thanks to Georgia Bonesteel and PBS “Lap Quilting”! Perfect, small blocks for quilting, then rows of blocks to hand sew on the back side, then rows of rows - then binding. I can do this (and so can you). Hopefully by the time i get to the rows of rows it will have cooled off at night.
Even here in central Vermont summer can be hot and sticky! Not as long, hot and sticky as central North Carolina, thank goodness. I started quilting while in living in the north country of upstate New York, took it to southern Virginia, central N.C. and now 20 plus years in Vermont, for the most part a very nice climate for quilting.
Hunt for a pattern. No-Maybe-No-Yes-No-No etc. Are the Yeses and Maybes lap quilt canidates? One was just right. I had already used part of it for a pillow tops so i had the templates in stock. Have a fabric stash for most of the blocks, only had to purchase 4 pieces. I have a stash of leftover batting-perfecr for lap quilting and a stash of backing.
I chose Bethany Reynolds “Magic Garden” as seen in he Fall 2003 issue of Fabric Trends magazine.But I didn’t want to make the sashing so instead I’m making 20 blocks instead of 12 and will use lattice strips as shown in the Quilters Newsletter magazine, workshop, May 1996. I bought a yard of fabric for the front strips and will use the scraps stash for the back.
Next time moving on!
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