emester starts tomorrow, so I was hoping to spend the weekend on a last burst of sewing to get the last two birds done. But best laid plans and all that – I’m coming down with a cold (not *too* bad so far, but as almost everyone I know has had some variety of nasty…
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…
Ok, so my plan for this weekend was to put the binding on my experimental quilt. But the three new In Flight patterns were tempting me, as was an idea I’d had back when I was making the original birds, of reversing the plain background and scrappy foreground. I never followed up the idea at…
Three more quilt squares done! Feathers. Apart from a wee bit of wobbliness in the corner (mainly caused by not having enough fabric to be able to get a decent grip to move it properly), this one went really well. It looks really cool on the back, too: Next is Ocean Current. This was definitely…
Definitely a lot easier to see what I’m doing! I can actually backtrack along lines of stitching without having to guess whether I’m staying on the same line or not (of course, that doesn’t mean I don’t go off the lines occasionally still (as you can tell above!), but that’s more about getting my speed…
In the wake of the last few patchworky/quilty projects I’ve been working on, I’ve accumulated quite a stash of fabric scraps that are too small to really be useful, but too big to throw away, so I’ve just been collecting them all together in a “might come in handy one day” pile. Anyway, now that…
Getting too dark to get a decent photo, but I couldn’t wait until morning to take it in better light 🙂 Of course, there’s still a lot of work still to do – this is just the quilt top, I’ve still got to do the actual quilting part – but that’s going to wait for…
I think I’ve decided on a layout. But then, I thought I’d decided on a layout an hour ago, until I took a photo of it to use as a reference, and it looked completely different in the photo than it had on the floor (probably because it fills so much of the floor that…
Yep, that’s the final bird done – the osprey. So yay, finished all the birds! Except now it’s the hard part – I’ve got to figure out the layout to get them all onto a quilt. I do have a rough plan sketched out, but of course, I’m likely to change my mind on a…
But I finally finished the eagle: Only one more bird to go!