365Caws is now in its 14th year of publication, and was originally intended to end after 365 days. It has sometimes been difficult for me to find new material, particularly during the winter months, but now as I enter my own twilight years, I cannot guarantee that I will be able to provide daily posts. It is my hope that along the way I may have inspired someone to a greater curiosity about the natural world. If so, I can rest, content in the knowledge that my work here has been done.
Monday, November 23, 2020
Batt, Back, Sew!
Day 41: When I pulled Patience Corner off the quilting frame, I couldn't immediately mount the Hexagons in its place. I still had to apply the outer row of white hexagons to two sides, and then add a straight-edged border fabric, tasks which I've completed over the last three days. The next step is to batt and back it, i.e., lay a piece of muslin out on my living room floor, cover it with a layer of quilt batting and then safety-pin the quilt top (above) to the lower layers. I've left a wide border for ease of mounting on the frame, but that will be trimmed down to three inches once the border is hand-quilted. Each hexagon will be shadow-quilted, with six-petalled flowers in the center of each gold hexagon. It should go fairly quickly, which is to say that I will be able to finish it in something under a year. Ready, set, go? No, that's "Batt, Back Sew!" and she's off and running!
Labels:
hexagon quilt,
quilting
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