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I added the border to Lib’s quilt and moved on to the slowest and most meditative part of the process, whip-stitching the edge of the border down by hand. I particularly enjoy this part of the process because it allows me the time to mentally sum up the whole piece as I literally sit with […]

I’m finally over the head cold from hell! I finished the whipstitching around the edge of Nan’s quilt this week. Done and Done. This part is always slow going. I fold the interfacing under and whipstitch it down by hand. It is a very slow, meditative process. I rather like it, it allows me the […]

I’ve been trying to figure out how to sew the squares together. With the quilts I’ve done to date I’ve sewn the pieces together on a pellon (interfacing) backing and then lined the squares up, overlapped the pellon backing and sewn the squares together. I’ve used heavy black thread with a zigzag overstitching technique and […]

It’s been a productive if somewhat uneventful week. I finished the square for the dowry quilt from Grace’s quilt. The idea behind the dowry quilt is to take one extra square from each of the quilts and join them together to make a single “Sampler Quilt” that will form my Dowry Quilt.  Sampler quilts were […]

Really, I know how to count. I make a cheat sheet for each of the quilts at the start to help plan things out and to let me know how many of each shape/print/book page I need to cut out. The math is fairly straightforward: you take the number of a particular shape/print combo that […]