After finishing my Tiny Nine Patch quilt earlier this year, I’ve realised that I miss have a ready-to-go long term quilt project and I’ve decided to try to use up some of my Liberty stash by making the Alice’s Wonderland Sampler quilt from Alice Caroline.
The quilt in the book is made from 100 blocks which use a variety of piecing techniques. My quilt will probably be only 81 blocks as 20 of the blocks are use raw edge applique designs, a technique which is not my favourite.
The quilt requires 6 metres of white/cream background fabric which I don’t have in my stash. However, I was able to find on Ebay two “new old stock” single cotton sheets for less than £7 each (including postage). They have some discoloration at the edges, but if this remains after washing, it will be easy to cut around it.
The sheets were made by Horrockses, a Preston based manufacturer which is quite appropriate seeing as most of my Liberty stash is from when it was printed at Standfast and Barracks in Lancaster. My plan is to cut and package the fabrics for most of the blocks in advance so that I have my own quilt kit ready to sew.
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