This C&G course is having one positive effect at least. It is forcing me to try out things that I’ve just collected articles on in the past: see my cathedral windows piece. I even paid to do a course at QU on crazy patchwork and then never got started. It’s the only class where I paid my dues and then didn’t do the course work. So now I have again been made to do something that I had been slacking over.
I got my act together last night and made a first layout. Then I went to bed and this morning before work I took another look. I decided it had too much orange and not enough yellow. So this evening more or less the first thing I did when I got in, was to remove some orange and add more yellow. I also rearranged quite a bit of the last corner from last night. This is the state of play:
I used light weight iron-on interfacing as the foundation and not a piece of muslin as directed. This is my lazy way of getting around doing any basting. As we are to make a quilt sandwich and then do machine embroidery over the edges of the patches I decided I could get away without the extra stability offered by a muslin foundation. My interfacing is quite flimsy so as not to add too much extra bulk in the way I usually use it.
I got as far as auditioning the threads to use for the embroidery. Considering I’m trying not to buy any extra materials for this course except those that are really necessary I’m pleased I managed to find enough fabrics and threads to cover the whole colour range of the inspiration photo. My stash is quite paltry compared to some of the photos you see on the internet from other quilters.
I have a couple of sheer fabrics in the right colours too that I may use as some extra embellishment. One of them is folded up in the top left hand corner of the photo. Having got started I’m now looking forward to doing some extra embellishment on this piece. As we have to make a complete quilt sandwich I shall probably also finish it completely with a binding. I feel it’s time to complete a piece again rather than just keeping it as a sample.
