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Fail, fail again… If you are going to fail it is best to fail quickly and learn something from it! This week I’ve been working on adding the trim to the quilt for my great-grandmother Cassie Hodgman (a.k.a. Nan). It was meant to be done with the pages of an old Sears & Roebucks catalog, […]

And there is more than one way to do trapunto quilting.   In the hand-quilting method you hand-sew a piece of cloth (generally muslin) onto the back of the quilt face, following the pattern of the trapunto quilting you wish to achieve, leaving a small opening. You then stuff cotton or wool quilt batting (the kind […]

This week has been more printing and reading about and practicing trapunto techniques. All in all a very enjoyable couple of days. I decided on the double wedding ring pattern for the quilt for my great grandmother Cassie. Here is an example of the pattern from the Brooklyn Museum by an unknown maker circa 1930: […]