I am pleased with it and miss the making of it, the playing with fabrics, mixing and matching my eclectic finds, velvets with ticking and vintage linens with traditional Sanderson prints. I was going to say that that is the part of the creative process I enjoy most, but stopped myself because actually I love the whole design and make 'event'; the scribbled idea, the trawling through fabrics for the initial selection, the fine tuning of that choice, the cutting and stitching and assembly of the elements in to something new and original and beautiful. Then there's the final stages of backing and wadding and button quilting - not so creative more process but it finishes the quilt off and stops it from becoming an ongoing never to be completed assemblage.
So what next, I would like to do a blue themed one, but the idea of the dining room disappearing under fabric again is stalling me, meanwhile I think about it and it forms itself as a 'virtual' quilt somewhere in my mental ether where it lurks until I raid my stash and resign myself to domestic quilting chaos once more.
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| The back showing the vintage Marks and Spencer sheet I found on Ebay, love those fresh yellow and white stripes |
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| Detail showing corner which I mitred properly and the double rows of top stitching, one hidden in the seam between the edging and the quilt and one half way between that seam and the edge |
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| Detail showing some of the different block designs and fabric combinations, love the velvet with the Sanderson |
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| Another detail |
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| The finished piece, it covers the top of a king sized bed and you can clearly see the five large squares that form the basis for the design |
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