Here's a sneak peek at one of the three - the block goes together with a mitre as opposed to a Y-seam. I know how you all love those Y-seams!! The mitre is similar but not as fiddly.
I am beginning to feel the blob after not being able to run due to the pinched nerve. I think I'm about to get used to the idea of numb fingers and get back to running anyway. Some clothes are getting tight and that will never do!!
Therefore, tonight I am going to draw up a new schedule to include running and some down time and since Spring is on the way - the groundhog said so - I will sign up for a race in a month's time.
Tuesday Roz brought her 'Quilting 101' students to the studio for a field trip and I think they had a good time. Jyl made a really ugly quilt - wineing the whole time! - with missed seams, bad 1/4" seams, fluffly borders, stretched borders and flip-flop ditches. It was a bit extreme but I think we managed to show them some of the pitfalls to look out for while piecing a quilt. And on the point about flip-flop ditches, these are created by bad pressing. Some are flipped by the iron and can be pressed back again, but others are when one end of the seam gets stiched one way and the other gets stiched the opposite way when the next pieces are added. This means that doing custom quilting and stitch in the ditch has problems. The idea of stitch in the ditch is to stitch in the lower part of the seam and hide the stitching. If the seam is wonky underneath the ditch changes sides and the stitching shows as it crosses over - not good. There you go - I've finished for now, but do take care with pressing because it makes all the difference and done right gives you a lovely crisp looking quilt top.
Yesterday was another busy day with a T-Shirt class - all that was left to do as homework was attach the borders. Then the engineer and I headed out to Charlotte NC for his daughter's wedding. It was a lovely event - they actually held the ceremony in a pretty little park in Rock Hill SC (for legal reasons) and then everyone went to dinner in Charlotte. We had a lovely Italian meal and the bride was looked radiant - as brides do!
We are getting very excited and a little stressed about New Jersey next week. We are leaving on Wednesday and will not be back until late on Monday so there is a lot to sort out before then, and these patterns need to be written before we go - so to the computer to type up patterns! Maybe before we go I will be able to break the secret about the new patterns.
No comments:
Post a Comment