July 17, 2017
This is one of the embroidered cards that I was saving for someone special. The combination of my light box and a Frixion pen meant that even when I didn’t stitch exactly on the lines it wasn’t noticeable. I used perl cotton rather than DMC floss for the first time, and it won’t be the last.
Time was running short so I did an envelope finish for the card without any extra quilting.
I bought the pattern for this quilt at the Grand Opening of Deb’s fabric shop – probably two years ago! She was selling the pattern (with fabric) as a kit but I didn’t like any of the colours so I was able to pick my own fabrics. I made the quilt a bit larger than was called for by adding extra borders.
For a long time this was to be my Sashiko quilt because I wanted to quilt it using sashiko patterns meant for machine quilting. When I got down to the quilting though the patterns were just too small to use within the blocks so I had to change plans.
I need to remind myself that quilting on a heavily patterned fabric doesn’t show. I spent almost three days mapping out lines, stitching them and then tying in the ends only to realize that it really doesn’t show unless you are looking at it close up. I was smarter for the rest of the quilting and just did a meander.
I didn’t think the border fabric worked well with the backing fabric so I used a two colour binding.
July 5, 2017
I’m not starting a trend, but Christy also gets a larger-than-normal card this year.
Christy has never mentioned she particularly liked any of my quilts, but I felt it was time she had one of them. Yes Christy it is that simple; if you like something you just might end up with it! And if you don’t like something you better say so or you might still end up with it.
July 2, 2017
Elizabeth’s card is a bit larger this year. When I posted photos from the quilt show this is the one Elizabeth said she liked the best.