I often get asked what my favorite part of quilting is. That’s hard to answer and I usually say I like all the parts.<\/p>\n
That’s a lie.<\/p>\n
I don’t particularly like the part I’m doing now which is the trim up the edges and make it a real rectangle part. Fabric, even layered, quilted fabric, wriggles and moves. It moves around. I’ve pushed and pulled it while quilting. I confess. And now I’m asking it to lay perfectly flat and be good. Ha!<\/p>\n
Note to self: When you win the big lottery or move into the single huge room studio: the table in the middle that does everything must be bigger than 50″ by 80″ or have a folding top that opens out to that big.<\/p>\n
Yup. Bigger table surface would be good. If I’d remembered I could have made a surprise appearance at my guild’s afternoon group and used a few large tables but who knows how long the whole thing would have taken… Oh well. It looks like it will work out now. <\/p>\n
In the meantime, I’m hitting the showers while the quilt ‘relaxes’. Yeah that’s my story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I often get asked what my favorite part of quilting is. That’s hard to answer and I usually say I like all the parts. That’s a lie. I don’t particularly like the part I’m doing now which is the trim … Continue reading