When the quilt is 105″ x 105″ it is very hard to get a picture. I’m up on a ladder hoping my shadow doesn’t fall on the quilt.
I’m very happy with the result. Will I be saying this in a few days when I start trying to quilt the beast?
I’ve ordered polyester batting from Quilters Dream, I’m looking for as light weight as possible. I was considering wool, but I’ve decided this time to just go with polyester. One thing about polyester is it doesn’t have to be heavily quilted.
Yes, I’m seeing a lot of ripples in the border. I measured the quilt at 85″. So I measured each border at that length. One of the things I decided is to make the border wider than the final quilt. My hope is to cut off a good two inches off. But that doesn’t help me while quilting, I’ll still have this whole beast to contend with.
Piled up on a chair. I have also ordered extra wide backing fabric. The fabric comes at 108″…. I will try and center it as much as possible, but, at this point I am prepared to add plain old muslim along the edges if I have to.
For months this has been my work table. When creating a scrappy quilt, all scraps must be out.
An even bigger pile on the floor, as well as pulling fabric from drawers and bins. I am pleased to say that all of this has been put away. Well not all. As I was cleaning up I threw pieces of fabric away as well. Some were small and I used them in this quilt, but am ‘over them’. Others were larger pieces of fabric, ones that I’ve picked up through the years at garage sales and such. So not fabrics that I spent much money on.
I actually don’t have a huge stash. You’d think looking at this quilt top that I do, but many of these were small remnants. I find that I cull out fabrics often. I like to buy new fabric. I know I’ll never use everything. So at some point, the remnants get small enough, and I’ve used them enough that it is simply time to let them go.
I bought a silly book on cross stitching, unconventional cross stitch. It was 1$ at the Dollar Tree. This might be the only thing I do out of this book, since some of the ‘designs’ are too crass or relate to pop music. But one dollar, it was worth it. So off to JoAnns I went and got Aida cloth and a few more colors of thread. A small project in the midst of a huge one.
Leah