Turkey Tracks: November 14, 2016
Quilt-let Quilt Done!
It’s “The Cat’s Meow!”
And, I LOVE it.
I’ve been trying to decide what to do with it. Would it be a wonderful wall hanging for my office?
Nope. Not with this gorgeous low-volume neutral backing.
How fun is this?
Friend Becca Babb-Brott (Etsy store Sew Me A Song) is going to make one now, and she came up with the idea of doing the pearl cotton as one goes along, but doing the hand quilting in individual blocks when the quilt is finished. Yes! That would solve the problem of trying to make nice quilting stitches on a small quilt that does not really fit into a hoop that isn’t too small to work with hand quilting. The stab quilting is very difficult as the layers shift so much as you sew.
I love every single block, but I wound up with TWO of the Cotton+Steel cats, so the quilt became “The Cat’s Meow!”
I decided to use half blocks to fill in the top and bottom edges–I just cut the batting in half and folded the quilt-let in half and sewed the edges together before decorating with pearl cotton.
This quilt is going to be a lap quilt in my living room. It is so soft and cuddly!
Yummo!!
Quilts will tell you where they want to be if you listen to them while you work. It just comes to you along the way.
THANK YOU Katja Marek for a very fun project that let me enjoy many hours of fabric love, color love, pattern love, quilting love!!
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