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Progressing
This new quilt is definitely slower going than the jelly roll race one (mainly because the seams have to be pretty accurate for it to work properly), but I am making progress. I spent a couple of hours this afternoon sewing the squares I’d cut out back together again: And then this evening I cut…
Butterfly 2 by daylight
Yep, looks much better with decent lighting: It’s not complete though – there’s some stuff I want to add to it yet. Parsnips obviously thinks that what’s missing is a cat:
Experiment complete
I pulled myself away from the birds for long enough this afternoon to bind my experimental quilt: I “cheated” and machine-sewed the binding (otherwise it would have taken me weeks to hand-sew all that!), and there’s a few wee bits where it didn’t quite catch properly so I really should go back and re-do those…
Swiftness
I decided to stick with the totally random scrappiness for the next bird, the swift, and I think it looks ok: It’s funny, as I was choosing which bundle of fabric to use for it, I found myself reasoning that I should use the bundles with the smallest number of fabrics in them for these…
Truce
The kittens and I managed a truce this afternoon in the battle of the embroidery threads, so they slept on my feet while I managed to add a bit to the cross-stitch project: It’s still going to be a very long time before there’s anything worth seeing in these updates.
Project report
fter spending most of the morning cutting scraps of material into strips, and most of the afternoon sewing them back together again (who ever said quilting was a logical sort of hobby…), I’ve managed to complete a whole six blocks of my quilt. Good thing I’m not working to a deadline this time! Pretty pictures…
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That is a beauty!!
Lovely!!!
So so beautiful !