Our quilt for this year in quilt class is going to be spectacular. i don't know if we will get it done in one year. Marilea may have outdone herself this time.
We are making a Mary Lincoln Mourning Quilt ... to celebrate Mary Lincoln's life and devastation with the death of her children. will be interesting. it will be Baltimore Album style ... something i have always wanted to do.
The middle block will be a Victorian cemetary basket filled with flowers, a flag, and who knows what else. Marilea sort of designs as she goes. LOL
So far, I am this far.
The basket is very narrow fabric strips. i couldn't turn mine that narrow, so i simply sewed them wrong sides together and put the seam on the bottom .... problem solved. you probably can't see ... but the lines of the basket are woven ... over and under. cool.
I made the outside of my basket with 2 pieces of rickrack, folded together.
I made my handle of 2 rows of the same rickrack trim as the outside of the basket.
We also were to make ruched flowers for our homework this time. i have my fabric ruched, but need to curl them into flowers tonight and stitch them onto a circle of fabric so they will be ready to add to the basket. usually i do my 'homework' as soon as i get home from class, but this time i procrastinated until the 11th hour. i was stitching that rickrack down last night.
But, ssshhh! don't tell Marilea.
Next lesson is more flowers, some leaves and a pieced block ....
tomorrow
We are making a Mary Lincoln Mourning Quilt ... to celebrate Mary Lincoln's life and devastation with the death of her children. will be interesting. it will be Baltimore Album style ... something i have always wanted to do.
The middle block will be a Victorian cemetary basket filled with flowers, a flag, and who knows what else. Marilea sort of designs as she goes. LOL
So far, I am this far.
The basket is very narrow fabric strips. i couldn't turn mine that narrow, so i simply sewed them wrong sides together and put the seam on the bottom .... problem solved. you probably can't see ... but the lines of the basket are woven ... over and under. cool.
I made the outside of my basket with 2 pieces of rickrack, folded together.
I made my handle of 2 rows of the same rickrack trim as the outside of the basket.
We also were to make ruched flowers for our homework this time. i have my fabric ruched, but need to curl them into flowers tonight and stitch them onto a circle of fabric so they will be ready to add to the basket. usually i do my 'homework' as soon as i get home from class, but this time i procrastinated until the 11th hour. i was stitching that rickrack down last night.
But, ssshhh! don't tell Marilea.
Next lesson is more flowers, some leaves and a pieced block ....
tomorrow
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