Thursday, June 15, 2017

I found an interesting quilting design in my “Quilting with Rulers” book so that’s what I’ve been doing on my Pink quilt. I’ve been calling it my Sashiko quilt for so long but since the Sashiko didn’t work out I needed a new name. Once you see the quilt you will know I didn’t use much imagination to come up with that name!

I enjoy quilting with straight lines. It takes time to mark the sewing lines but at least I know that the quilting will be more or less even. I’m getting better at free-motion but I still feel tense when I know that is what I’m facing. Even though I’m using straight lines I’m trying a new technique. When I drew the pattern I was going to have 12 ends to tie in on each block. That was just crazy so I’m stitching over previous quilting lines so on each block there are only four. Some of the blocks still need a design but I’m hoping “something” will come to me before I finish this set of blocks.

In spite of the nasty weather today I went out and ran some errands. I took the Cranberry Hall books into the accountant, dropped off a couple of Cranberry Hall payments, and did some Cranberry Hall banking. After that I headed to the grocery store to find something for the pot luck tonight. I came home with a pasta salad that fits nicely into one of my crystal bowls and, unless someone asks, I won’t tell them I didn’t make it from scratch.

Back now to the quilting.