Quilting Again
Aug. 6th, 2019 04:53 pm
This is for my dad. It's a small wall quilt, maybe ten by ten inches. I worked on it for a few days, right until the morning of his birthday. I'm not too experienced with fusible appliqué, but I think it turned out well! Outline quilting was a pain in the ass, as always. This is the curse of novelty patterns, I guess - they need fussy quilting to look their best. Paper piecing is the same.
I'm currently working on my long, grim to-do list. First up is repairing a quilt I've been procrastinating on forever. I have been sinking threads and quilting over patches halfheartedly, but it must get done. It's actually worse to patch than it was to quilt in the first place, since I made the original clamshell pattern in sort of a wobbly criss cross, and I have to do the repairs one shell at a time. So that's been a fun wrestling match.
Next up are more presents and repairs I promised far too long ago, and some stuff for myself that I have put off far too long and would like to put off longer. Ah well. Such are the fruits of procrastination.
My sewing room is about to fall prey to a construction project, so I'm going to have to ferry the whole thing to my bedroom somehow. I already have my entire bookshelf of quilting and dollmaking books, my boxes of quilting fabric, and my machine in here, and I can already tell it will be a squeeze.