Here’s what I did when I wasn’t here for a week (!):
Waaay too much this.
Not enough this.
I spent four naptimes densely straight-line quilting my Liberty geese quilt, and the fifth tacking down the binding.
Thread tangent: I went to Joann’s three. times. for thread. Coats and Clark, I know, I know, but the Old Linen shade perfectly matched the Moda Dove background fabric. I told my husband that while I don’t like to cheap out on fabric-thread-yarn, I really felt like the poly C&C performed much better than any of the other threads I’ve used for machine quilting so far. Next month I may give Aurifil a shot, though it’d have to be pretty awesome to beat the ease of C&C.
Bear with me through some awful photos. The weather was appalling for the third weekend in a row, and I didn’t want to take my prized Liberty quilt out in winter mix for photographing.
You can see a peek of the backing in the very first photo, where it’s crammed in the throat of my machine. I backed it in a piece of the “Catherine” print that I bought to make myself another Tova. (Ha!) And then I pieced the last scraps of the background, and two colorways of the Charles print, and quilt back. The binding is the “Dorothy” print in navy.
Was I successful in making flying geese my own? Eh. I don’t know. I tried my hand at making something different happen in that one vertical strip, wanting the geese to look like they were rising up as a flock. You know, geese flying = order; geese taking off = chaos. I find myself not particularly caring, having wanted for so long to make a flying geese quilt. I’m also pleased with this use of my precious Liberty fabrics. (Though, shhh, I bought a FQ bundle of the brown colorway and have other plans for it.)
Linking up with the Let’s Get Acquainted Blog Hop, this week over at Better Off Thread!
Soooo purdy. The quilting is great. I hope you are keeping this one for yourself!
Oh, it looks so good! I really like the picture of it hanging on your quilt rack. I knew about all the spools of thread but I didn’t know you had to keep going back to the store to get them – yikes!
Your quilt is so lovely!!! Great job! I am sure you will love it forever!