early morning appliqué

I can sense light in the bed­room. I can’t quite man­age to open my eyes, but I can just feel the morn­ing hour. One eye will do, I squint as I reach across to press the light but­ton on my bedside lit­tle clock that must have a magic bat­tery inside because I haven’t changed it in a decade at least. 5:30. Not good. However, since I’d first woken at 4:27, this was an upstat. I nav­i­gated my pile of dis­carded pil­lows next to my bed to get to my slip­pers, then out the bed­room door, and down the cor­ri­dor to my work­room. Hmm, what to do. Way too early for the piano. Don’t want to wake up Val next door. Can’t quite bring myself to haul Sarah’s Triangles Quilt from the front room to here, it’s just so BIG! So, there it stays, over the top of the couch till tonight’s Jeopardy episode.

So, what to do. Thinking, think­ing, and then I have it. It’s the per­fect time. I pulled Gita’s Chelsea Quilt out of its drawer, and began machine-appliquéing. Here’s how it looks so far.

raw edge appliqué again

Well that was yes­ter­day morn­ing. This morn­ing, I woke up at the slightly more decent hour of 6:30am. Again, headed down the cor­ri­dor to my work­room, and began sewing. It’s look­ing really gor­geous! Just need to find some of that lovely red Kaffe solid fab­ric so I can sew on at least the right side bor­der, and then appliqué down the flower and leaf that are right on the edge.

btw, it's deliberate, having the flower and leaf "grow" over the edge

I’ll be hand-?quilting this one, and will prob­a­bly do a lit­tle run­ning stitch in red Perle 8 around the flower boxes and flow­ers. I think it’ll look gor­geous. Gita doesn’t know I’m work­ing on it again, so don’t tell her, OK? I want to sur­prise her.

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