OK here’s the result of the yesterday’s work:
Here we have the weft woven into the warp. And then you have to sew down all the edges, so that they don’t fray or get caught on anything:
This is very time consuming – especially as the checks are about 1 inch square. I was restricted by the width of the strips that I had precut. I don’t know what I was thinking of at the time of the log cabin episode, it would have been a Sisyphus task to sew those strips. It took me 3 hours this afternoon to edge about one third of the squares. I’m using a 3-step zig-zag and can’t go up to full speed with the machine or else the whole table starts vibrating
This is the first time I’ve used the large table on the Bernina that I bought from Gudrun. It really makes a difference to how easy it is to cope with the size of the work. This piece is about 150 X 100 cm.
And this is where I’m coming from. The grand design on a 10 x 10 cm note block:
All mod cons used in this process
