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How lovely! Yesterday I received a comment from Carolyn Gavin, the creater of the divine ‘Wild Thyme‘ fabric range, asking if she could feature my Wild Thyme Quilt on her blog! Of course I said yes, and that I would be honoured. Click here to see her blog post. If you missed it, and would like to read about the process of making this quilt, click here.
 phew! it survived! As you can see, it all turned out OK! As I carefully and oh so gently pulled my quilt out of the washing machine, I did breathe a very large sigh. I was happy to see my brightly coloured fabric that seemed not to have shrunk a bit. I quickly checked, and yes, all the pencil marks were gone, and the threads were all intact. Brilliant. I smiled. Thanks goodness. I left it to dry overnight on my clothes horse, and in the morning, took it along to Amitié for our first class of the last term for the year. Trish agreed with me that tied knots would be best for the middle bits, and by the time 12 o’clock came around, it was all done. Isn’t it such a sweet feeling when you look at your finished work and you’re really happy with it, and it’s all done? To see images of the finished front and back of the quilt, and if you missed the journey of this quilt, you can read about the process here. Thanks so much Allison (from Cluck. Cluck. Sew.) for this delightful quilt design and tutorial!  all done Now, onto hand-quilting Sarah’s Triangles Quilt, and machine-appliquéing Gitta’s Chelsea Quilt. Needless to say, my girls are h-a-p-p-y! They’ve been waiting very patiently for me to finish this Wild Thyme Quilt so I could continue with theirs. So, now that makes 10 projects completed this year so far. I’m hoping to finish Sarah’s and Gitta’s too, and perhaps one other, but we’ll see about that. I’ve just finished the last stitch on the binding. I show it to my daughter, Devorah, and she says I should now wash it. Did she say… WASH IT ????? !!!!! Aaaaarrrrggggghhhhhh! Those of you who are avid followers of my blog will know that I never wash my quilts. Not before, not after. I mean, what if it shrinks and looks horrible. What if those gorgeous colours I drooled over when I bought the fabric will fade. What if I wash it in the wrong temperature and then instead of washing out, I set the pencil lines firmly in. So much to worry about! But you know when someone tells you to do something, and there’s something about how they’re telling you – maybe the assured tone of their voice, perhaps their matter-of-fact, unattached, almost blasé manner, or just that what they’re saying to you rings the faintest of little bells of “you know it’s the right thing to do” in a very far back remote corner of your common sense brain, and with the greatest of trepidation, you follow? Well, I did it. After all, it is my daughter telling me. And I trust her. She takes risks with quilting where I play it safe. She’s clue-ier (crickey, how do you spell that word?) than I am in so many things. So, I put the quilt in the machine, ran the water, and closed the lid. And then I ran out of the laundry. I had to. Just in case I might try to pull it out. As if that’d work! So here’s my quilt, spinning, spinning, washing, getting awfully wet. It just looks so sad in there like that. Oh man, I hope I did the right thing. Please tell me I did.  only minutes away from the spin cycle and then I can pull it out, hopefully in one piece! The “snails” are all done, the quilting finished, and the edges trimmed in readiness for the binding.  (not so suddenly) I'm up to the binding! I decided to do a double-fold binding for this quilt. First time. I cut my fabric into 31/2″ strips, and machine-stitched them onto the quilt.  don't you love the fabric?  No pins, just sewing. Should be OK. I’ll now turn and finish by hand. Can’t wait to show you the finished quilt. Now, back to things that are much more interesting. My Wild Thyme raw edge circle quilt. It’s looking good. I’m really glad I went with the hand quilting. And my snails look so lovely in their different colours. It’s a good exercise in proving the four-colour theorum. No two “touching” circles having the same colour thread. I’m not doing quite as good a job of that as I thought I would, and some snails that are diagonally across from each other, cater-cornered, have the same colour. However.  I love how, even with all the colour from the fabrics themselves, you can still see the Perle 8 cottons very clearly  hmmm, nice! I’m thinking of doing some reef knots in between the circles. Or embroidered starbursts, for want of a better way of transposing that image from my head onto the screen. What do you think? |
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