This tablecloth is made from vintage fabric by my most minimalistic quilter or how she prefers free-motion quilting.
She did not
use batting and only added a brushed cotton sheet as an inner. After the tedious quilting on
the previous massive quilt, this was a breeze to work with.
If I say I worked two full weeks, or every available moment during this time, on this quilt, I am not exaggerating. This must have been the largest quilt I ever worked on (90” x 102”). To make it feel even larger, it had double batting and waffle weave as a backing. Pair all of these, and I had a monster, and my machine, towards the end, with most of the roll resting against the bed of the machine, had a hard time moving smoothly.
The quilt
maker requested hearts on the borders and not wanting to do all the same, I
played with several motifs and ideas.
The maker's piecing is well done, and I could not fault her for anything. I am glad it was done and the recipient will receive a beautiful quilt.
Some two years ago, shortly after we moved into this house, I took an online longarm class on quilting feathers.
With my memory
not improving with age, I wanted to make something from what I’ve learnt
to cement the rules, tips and tricks into my muscle memory. I then decided to make this whole cloth. However, it did not happen as fast as typing this sentence as I had it on the frame and whenever a customer quilt arrived, I had to take it off and reload whenever done with customer work. It nearly took me two years.
The worst part was when I sat doing the binding, one side by hand, I noticed I omitted one curved line. Back onto the frame it had to go, binding and all but now it is done. All was done free-hand with rulers to guide me around the curves.
We were invited for supper on Friday at the house of one friend, another friend came too and brought along curried chicken, which was really special. Luckily the cook shared the recipe with me and I intend to make it for us one day.
Before
supper, I finished this quilt, a pattern from a local quilter,
teacher and designer. She called it the
‘Aunty’ quilt and people in one of her groups could give a name and a story to go with
the name and each block represented that person. The outline of the block is basically the
same with the inner detail changing from one block to another.
The quilt maker
plans to use this on a bed so it needed no more than an edge-to-edge motif and
we decided on medium grey thread.
I worked two full days to complete this quilt as I expected 2 more quilts from out of town but I never got a message from the courier. I then decided to cook hubby a decent meal for supper seeing he had the bare basic the last 2 days. Tonight, I am making sweet ‘n sour Eisbein.
When I received
this quilt, I found the floral prints representing the darker side of the log
cabin almost overwhelming. I knew
whatever I chose to quilt should enhance the cream fabric and I must
keep the quilting on the floral prints to the minimum.
Nothing seemed to be better than a large-scale feather, this turned out good as the feathers now attracted the attention. The picture of the full quilt can be found on the Gallery page.
