Pink and Barbara

Suzanne

Hi!

I have just finished the top. It is a quite narrow quilt to fit on a special wall in the hallway upstairs. Can't wait to start quilting it!

Here is a close-up:

Have a great evening!

A crafting day,...

I did some cleaning and hanging up curtains and other things yesterday. That basically means that I have a day where I don't HAVE to do anything...in other words a sewing day! I might even get some help from my sweet cat Zingo...

Have a nice day!

The importance of testing...

I never used to make a test block, but now I do.

You know how you can go shopping, see really nice shoes, a bit to expensive so you don't try them on but keep on shopping. The next week you realize you can't live without the shoes and go back to try them on. Then you find out they don't fit, your feet hurt and they look gigantic in the shoes. A whole week of dreaming about the perfect shoes ...and then the dream falls apart. Sound familiar??  (the same goes for tops, pants and so on...)

I feel that the same goes for quilts. I learned this the hard way when making this quilt. I fell in love with it and started cutting all the pieces. The background of the spools are all one piece...( so the spools are not made of HST and squares). When I had almost finished my third block, I started asking myself if I was totally insane..*lol* But all the pieces where already cut so I kept on piecing. But since then I always make one test block to see if I can really piece the blocks ...without going insane....

So now the first block for Susanne is pieced and it work out great...so just 17 more to go...*lol*

have a great day!

Barbara