Well, months go by without any quilts and then two come
along at once – December had not one, but two quilt finishes!
The first has been a long time in the planning and sewing
and is the long promised quilt for my husband. The pattern is a modified StarPlus from Machen & Tun for which I’ve been acquiring various shot and peppered
cottons since last year. I replaced several of the smaller blocks with one large block so fewer fabrics were needed (otherwise the quilt would never have got started). The slow theme continued when it came to sewing
the blocks as they were stitched over several meetings of Leeds MQG.
This quilt saw my first use of the free motion foot on my
machine and I was pleasantly surprised at how well the machine behaved. I’m
sure there will more FMQ done next year, though I will need to plan ahead better to reduce the number of thread ends that need burying. The quilt is backed with Liberty lawn and
the wadding is black Hobbs Heirloom.
As I was taking the photos for this post, I noticed that the
quilt was not quite finished after all and the free motion foot was again needed for
a final block!
In contrast, the second quilt was started and finished in
just two weeks as it will be a Christmas present for my Dad. It uses mainly remnants from the StarPlus quilt and has no wadding but is just backed with
microfleece making it very lightweight but still cosy. Quilting was quick and
easy – simple stitch-in-the ditch straight lines across the quilt, so no thread ends
to bury. Sorry for the poor photo, but it was the only chance of a daylight
shot before I had to get it in the washing machine. (Speaking of which, isn’t
it great when colours catchers do their job?)
The last of the pre-Christmas sewing was done yesterday evening – a
bed tidy, again for my Dad. Hopefully I’ve got the size right for when it is
attached to the bed rail and hopefully it will give him somewhere to keep his
glasses, phone, TV remote, etc to hand.
I’m already planning sewing to do after Christmas and it
might just involve one of the many bag frames brought over the years from Harrogate at the Knitting & Stitching show.
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