Fusing Fun, And “What quilt top?”

As progress is being made on current projects, I have not given up on getting some UFO’s finished and moved into the completed projects category.

 

I decided to tackle two UFO’s this past month.  One was a project from a workshop I took with Freida Anderson.  It was languishing with the machine quilting half done (I needed to buy some variegated thread). And I was foreseeing a binding issue as I did not have anymore of the fabric I was thinking of for the binding.  Over tea with my friend Judy, she suggested the backing fabric would work for the binding too.  Ummm … hadn’t considered a print.  Searching through my stash, I couldn’t find any more of the backing material, but I did find another Kaffe Fassett print that was a  good candidate.  I was off and running!  By now, you know I like to stretch creatively from time to time on fabrics, colour or style that is not my usual focus and this fused appliqué project fit the bill.

 

 

 

 

I also want to share a bit of knotty naughtiness!  Instead of neatly pulling through the ends of the machine quilting and hiding them between the layers, I pulled them through to the back and knotted them!  The front was neat, the back won’t be seen and done was more important than fussing about the ends.  Phew!

 

 

 

As for the second project … my official line is “that quilt top, what quilt top”.  Technically speaking it wasn’t an entire top yet,  measuring 45″ x 45″ of what was supposed to be a double bed size quilt (notice the past tense!). It had seen two design incarnations during it’s long, loooonngg life as I worked with the variety of blocks to get something to “work”. I had inherited the blocks … they had once been part of a block exchange.  And no matter how much I told myself that I could work with them, I realized this project was causing angst and not joy at the thought of finishing it.  I decided to employ a theory I learned in pottery class: if you have wrecked it and messed it up and you keep playing with stuff that is wrecked, the less chance you have of successfully learning.  I declared it wrecked.  I stopped the misery.  I removed the four blocks from it that I loved.  — That quilt top?  What quilt top? Double phew!

 

Have a great week

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Happy Stitching!