I’m a liar.
So I haven’t been completely ignoring my striped quilt as I may have implied in my last post… somehow I actually found the time to open up and oil my sewing machine (scary!), which I’ve never done in the four years since my grandmother gave it to me when I graduated college.
It now runs much more smoothly and makes much less noise. So I used it to get some quilt squares done!
And:
And then I sewed together some little triangles:
Then I sat down in front of the TV and did a large amount of ironing and pinning and now I have a bunch ready to sew together into squares:
It’s just so satisfying to open those triangles up and see how all the sides line up to make mitered corners. There are just SO many little triangles left still…
July 22nd, 2007 at 10:55 pm
Hi. Love your stripes. Where in the world did you find them? I’ve been looking for similar ones since I saw a Kaffe Fassett quilt in one of his books that has that same look. I don’t remember which book it was, but you might like to see it–it’s done in a log cabin style, if I remember correctly. Anyway, I’m very jealous of your shirting strips collection. Can you give any hints on sources? TIA, Sally