A finished top:
Charmed Snowballs
Next up, layer and baste. This is my least favorite part of the whole process. Due to arthritis, tendonitis, inflammation, and whatever other "itises" in my hands, I don't use safety pins, too painful. So I pin-baste with straight pins. The "itises" in my knees don't love spending a couple hours crawling around on the floor, either. But it gets the job done and I can move on to the next step. I've tried spray basting and didn't like it, so this works better for me.
Pin Basting
Ready to quilt -
I have a wonderful sewing table from Tracey's Tables that opens up to what my husband calls "Aircraft Carrier Mode" when it's fully opened. It's huge and I love it! I'm starting with stitch-in-the-ditch in the straight seams, then I can remove the pins and add the rest of the quilting. With straight pins instead of safety pins for the basting, I do get pricked and scratched up a bit during the quilting, but I've figured out how to minimize that as much as possible.
Quilting
Hoping to get the quilting finished this week.
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Oh I am jealous of your aircraft carrier! This is truly a beautiful quilt and very visually arresting!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is lovely, quite cheery. And your table is a treasure. I can't imagine crawling around on the floor for even 5 min. let alone 2 hours. But I have never had floor space big enough, let alone clean enough, to lay a quilt out on the floor anyway.
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is beautiful! I also don't like the basting stage, good luck with the quilting!
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