A relic of my pre-cosplay days :-D

[ladyofthethread]

Trying to explain financial statements to your mother is hard when she doesn’t speak English and you know little Chinese. >_>; That’s how I spent my morning…

This afternoon, I got an old quilt top that I washed over the weekend ironed. It took a long time and two full tanks of water in the iron due to all the little seams! The quilt top is one that I had started piecing many years ago, I think when I was still in high school. I ran short on one of the fabrics (the green with the pink roses if I recall correctly) and never finished it since I only had enough for several more of the green blocks.

I checked and it will just about cover the top of a twin bed so I’m thinking of finally finishing it before I go back to costume sewing in January or so. I’ve got enough blocks left to make it one row wider and I need to dig through my fabric stash to see if I have anything good for a few borders, in an attempt to make it less shrimpy. ^_^; Here’s a pic of what I have now.

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[ladyofthethread.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :-) It's not actually as hard as it might look from the design. I used some rotary cutter techniques that I learned about in a book and they speed things up a lot. The book was called "Country Quilts in a Day" but it seems to be out of print now.

To make the blocks, I actually cut the fabric into long strips and sewed them together along the length. Then, pressed them and cut them into individual blocks. Much faster than cutting 4 little bits of fabric and sewing each block together individually. ^_^