What is on the frame?

August 26, 2020

Or more accurately what was on the frame, as since I took these pictures two more quilts have been on it. I can’t show those as they are customer quilts, one was a baby quilt and the one on the frame now is based on floor tiles. This one will be on quite a while. It is all ruler work which is hard on my joints, so I try to work in shorter sessions. It won’t even show when I  am done and that is the point. Some quilts need to speak for themselves not have the quilting talk over them. Anyway back to the one that was on the frame.

This is a project I started in the motorhome while I was travelling a lot to teach. I have worked in a couple of people’s home sewing rooms on it too. So if you think you have seen it, you may be right. It was an interesting pattern but leaves all the edges of the block bias. It is a bit of a pain to get together and on the frame it tried to distort a lot as I tensioned it. This is also the project I chose when in the lockdown I wanted to empty one of my project boxes. It wasn’t as quick and easy as I had hoped, but here it is nearly ready to use. The wadding is a thin bamboo blend, this will be either a summer quilt or one in a stack for cold winters. It is a good size so it is one I can throw over the top of others. In the winter we often use a double quilt each plus one or two over the whole bed. I am very against cold bottom. I am thinking I may need a binding day in the near future. Maybe I will set up my downstairs sewing space and alternate the ruler work and binding. Both can be hard mixing them might let me work longer and get everything done. I still need to get back to my Monday quilt too, I just can’t seem to find any spare time atm. I am not even managing to play my online games. Between work, garden and dog there are not enough hours in the day.