This is one of the smaller projects in my Little Handfuls of Scraps pattern book. I finished the top at the Guild’s January retreat but waited until I had a batch of tops sandwiched before I started quilting. And the quilting was quick and easy – just a straight line down the middle of the flying geese.
Author: Slavomir Rawicz
This was a book from Mum and Dad’s shelf and, from the tape outline inside the cover, I assume it came from a book club offering; the brochure itself had been removed. One day we were looking at our book shelves and I came across a couple from Mum and Dad’s collection and pulled them out to read.
The Foreward purports this to be the true account of an escape from a Siberian labour camp, across Siberia, through the Gobi desert and over the Himalayas to safety in India. On looking a bit further online it seems that this may not, in fact, be a true story. Or if it is true it perhaps didn’t happen to the teller of the tale. Either way I enjoyed the read.
As the journey progressed I followed along on a map of Russia. I realized that were I dropped into the middle of nowhere I wouldn’t have a clue which direction I should travel to reach safety and, if I was dropped in another country, I wouldn’t have a clue what countries bordered where I was. Perhaps I need to spend more time learning my geography.
Goodreads Rating: * * * *
Madison also requested a hot pad for her table that was big enough that she could set pots and baking dishes directly from the oven to the table. Again, I sent some patterns and she picked this one. I’m not sure where the pattern came from; it was a print-out that someone (probably Gail) gave me.
I used the same blue fabrics that were in her placemats; the hearts in the centre don’t show up quite as obviously as they did in the pattern but I think that is a good thing. I used a double layer of insul-bright so her table top should be safe.
Making the octagon shape wasn’t difficult but it wasn’t easy stitching the binding – all those corners.
Before Christmas Madison asked if I would make her a set of placemats. I sent her some pattern ideas and this is the one she picked; the original pattern came from Stacia. The request was for them to be made in blue and grey. I went through my stash and came up with fabrics that I thought fit the bill
This was an easy and fun pattern to make. I picked out six fabrics and since Madison wanted six placemats I was able to put some of each fabric in each placemat but I arranged the sizes and placement differently.
Quilting was just straight line as well as my often-used eight-pointed star.