Eindelijk ben ik begonnen met de voorbereiding van het quilten van het kattenpatchwork.
Finally I started to prepare the quilting of the cat patchwork.
De drie lagen liggen klaar om gespeld te worden.
The three layers, ready to be pinned together.
Honderden viligheidsspelden strooide ik, waarvan ik 400 gebruikte, 4 in elke kat.
Hundreds of pins (400) are spread out. Every cat gets 4 in its body
Do you have a table big enough for this quilt, or do you have to pin it on the floor? I think pinning is more difficult in some ways than quilting. How do you plan to quilt it? I wish we had a magic carpet so we could get together and quilt. Wouldn't that be fun?!!! The cats, the Escher kitties look great in these colors. What is the fabric? Is it all cotton? Is it machine pieced? (Sorry to give you so many questions...)
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThe pinning I did on Jans' floor. (big bamboo floor). At first I did it in knee-elbow position, but when my neck started to hurt, I just sat down on my bum. It took about 90 minutes to pin the cats. The patchwork is all cotton, the blocks are machine sewn, the blocks I assembled by hand (in our Sweden holydays). At first I quilt "in the ditch!, but I'm afraid the in-between-spaces on the cats will be to big. I think I'll quilt cat foot prints on the greens and flower or leaf "prints" on the cats. What do you think?
VerwijderenHoi, je inktvisjes komen morgen op mijn blog te staan.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenHeb je weleens op het blog van Jeanneke gekeken hoe zij op een simpele en niet zo belastende manier quilts dubbelt met latten?
http://dezondagssteek-jeanneke.blogspot.nl/
Ze maakt prachtige quilts ook trouwens.
Groetjes, Ria.