Songs, skirts and scones

Yippie: my final Kona Solid fabrics for Kathrijn’s part of the Eliasberg bairn triptych quilt have arrived! Only two weeks after ordering, which is a record from Hancock’s of Paducah. I was so happy when I opened the package, as the two colours that I ordered were just right: bright green for the back and ocean blue for the sashing and borders. I couldn’t wait to get everone in bed and the house tidy, so I could begin with putting the quilt together. Ah, the poor dears.

When I finally got round to it, I realised that the measurements in the Last Minute Patchwork and Quilt Gifts Book are in inches and I am an imperial girl. It took several ‘measure twice, cut once’ moments (i.e. measure four times, cut once), but then I finally had cut the border and sashes for the front (I hoped). Although it was really time to go to bed at that stage, I couldn’t resist pinning at least one, or two, or three stacked coin columns, until I couldn’t keep my eyes open anymore. The next day some time is spent watching football (WHAT?!) and pinning the other columns. After sewing column to column, bigger pieces to bigger pieces, I was able to cut away the extra centimeters of fabric before sewing the columns to the borders.

Pressing the fabric nearly ended in disaster, as the only suitable surface for pressing without folding the fabric was the floor. ‘Our’ (i.e. the landlord’s)  carpet is definitely not 100% natural: after pressing a corner of the quilt, some of it stuck to the carpet and left sticky residue in one of the corners… Some of it come of straight away, some with my nail and some is still on. I hope it will come of after the first wash.

Below the top basking in the sunshine of 20th June 2010, held down from the wind by the future owner.

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