A couple of years ago, when Kate was visiting the US, we went to my favorite fabric shop in Hammondsport, NY and I fell in love with some Japanese fabrics they had. Kate, who is a fiber artist and wonderful quilter, encouraged me to buy fabric to make a quilt. She figured out how much of each fabric to buy and then left it up to me to design and make the quilt. I spent a good deal of time cutting out squares and arranging and re-arranging them several times to get a pattern I liked. I then took the pieces to Kate and she helped me
cut them a little wonky, so that they weren't exactly square. Quilt then went home with me, so that I could buy material for backing, border, binding and batting. (lots of 'b's in that sentence!) I'm not sure about all the traveling that quilt-in-progress did, but eventually it arrived back at Kate's ready to be quilted - or so I thought. The first attempt at this failed as I had bought the wrong kind of batting. It was very puffy and Kate couldn't quilt it on her machine. I took the quilt back home and tried using pompoms on each square in lieu of all-over quilting. Didn't like that effect, so took them off. Kate said to bring it back to England and she would provide the proper backing and quilt it by machine. This I did this past summer. Kate put the binding on and quilted it all together. I brought it back home in August. And it has been sitting in my guest room (aka the craft room) until recently. I finally started the hand sewing necessary to finish the binding. Have I mentioned how much I hate hand sewing? However, I finished the binding yesterday and voila! I have a finished quilt! This is, I'm sure, the only quilt I will ever make, but I'm glad I did it once.
A couple of years ago, when Kate was visiting the US, we went to my favorite fabric shop in Hammondsport, NY and I fell in love with some Japanese fabrics they had. Kate, who is a fiber artist and wonderful quilter, encouraged me to buy fabric to make a quilt. She figured out how much of each fabric to buy and then left it up to me to design and make the quilt. I spent a good deal of time cutting out squares and arranging and re-arranging them several times to get a pattern I liked. I then took the pieces to Kate and she helped me
cut them a little wonky, so that they weren't exactly square. Quilt then went home with me, so that I could buy material for backing, border, binding and batting. (lots of 'b's in that sentence!) I'm not sure about all the traveling that quilt-in-progress did, but eventually it arrived back at Kate's ready to be quilted - or so I thought. The first attempt at this failed as I had bought the wrong kind of batting. It was very puffy and Kate couldn't quilt it on her machine. I took the quilt back home and tried using pompoms on each square in lieu of all-over quilting. Didn't like that effect, so took them off. Kate said to bring it back to England and she would provide the proper backing and quilt it by machine. This I did this past summer. Kate put the binding on and quilted it all together. I brought it back home in August. And it has been sitting in my guest room (aka the craft room) until recently. I finally started the hand sewing necessary to finish the binding. Have I mentioned how much I hate hand sewing? However, I finished the binding yesterday and voila! I have a finished quilt! This is, I'm sure, the only quilt I will ever make, but I'm glad I did it once.
2 comments:
I really love that quilt. Like you, I am not a fan of hand sewing but I do love hand quilting.
Quilt is great - like the irregularities in cutting and design.
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