Remember the practice fabric I loaded before my guests
arrived for the festive season?
I cut this fabric after watching a video by Adria Good called Flower petal fills over HERE. Now I know Adria is a ‘pro’ who has the ability to make everything look easy but I was adamant to give this a go. The thing is, I get to see so many amazing things but hardly has the time to practise anything as I most always have a customer quilt on the frame and I have to admit some of my attempts are done on customer quilts.
So I cheated a little by starting before the first guests
arrived but didn’t get to do much more than half of the first row.
Brother-in-law was the final to leave but on that day I
simply sat just to gather my own thoughts and enjoy my own space ALONE. I am really not much of a social animal, let
alone visitors for long periods of time.
With everyone gone, it was playtime! I experimented a lot, using different modes,
testing the speed I could work with but in the end, slow is the way to go in
order to get a good result.
I’ve shied away from long overall feathers as I never knew
how the thread build-up at the back would look like and I was surprised to see
that it is not nearly as bad as I imagined.
While doing the binding I was constantly aware of it but moving the
quilt just a little further away, only the motif remained visible and the
thread build-up could hardly be seen. Here is the back which should show the
build-up clearly and it is barely visible.
This was some of the cheaper extra wide fabric I purchased earlier this year and once completed it fitted our huge round bed with a diameter of 96”. We now have new bedding to start the new year.
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