I spent last night ripping up fabric… not as extreme as it sounds. The quilt backing that I got on Sunday is going to be both the back, and part of the top, of my new quilt which I am hoping to start on Saturday. It’s a jelly roll quilt in a very simple pattern of stripes and each block will have one strip of the backing fabric in it so I was ripping off strips of backing fabric and ironing them nice and flat so I would be ready to sew at the weekend. The colours are mainly muted blues, greens, browns and burgundies and I am hoping it will be a fairly simple quilt to construct; just four strips sewn together, cut apart to make blocks and then arranged in a pleasing pattern across the quilt. For once, I am not winging it, but have a diagram and worked it all out on my quilting design software, so I am hoping it will turn out well. I had already sorted all the jelly roll strips into sets of three; light, medium and dark, and put them in a box so was just waiting for the backing fabric to arrive so I could add the fourth strip to each set. I am going to use the finished quilt as a sofa throw to protect the furniture from muddy dog footprints in the winter so it will be machine quilted as well as machine pieced for maximum strength and durability and hopefully will be scratch resistant as a result. Most of my hand done quilts have had to be repaired in places thanks to Purdy’s habit of letting off steam by tearing around the house in mad circles, leaping on and off the furniture, and turning in mad circles on the sofa and the bed when we get back from work. She really is a very well behaved animal and is very well disciplined and quiet at work so I can’t begrudge her a bit of a mad five minutes when she gets home. Besides, its very entertaining to watch.
And the evening’s entertainment for the rest of this week will be… ripping out another sweater. Another three months of work down the pan but it was just not wearable. I altered the neckline to try and make it more comfy, but it didn’t work all that well, and the sleeves were much too tight as well, so after modelling it for my friend on Sunday to see if anything could be done to save it (she is a much, much more experienced knitter than I am) it was pronounced as beyond salvageable and I began the task of turning it back into balls of wool last night.
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3 comments:
The quilt sounds lovely! And I have a wonderful mental picture of Purdie having a mad 5 minutes (sweetie).
Bummer about the knitting having to be undone though :-(
Yes, well in the face of all that I can see how strength would be your primary requirement. Fortunately my patchwork doesn't have to stand up to anything so energetic! (well, who knows if I send it to someone else!?)
Oh that amount of frogging. You poor thing! My first big jumper after I started back knitting didn't fit me, the collar was nothing like the picture. I was going to frog it and go again, but Mum insisted that someone smaller than me try it on - first visitor in that fitted it won the jumper! She did look good in it, I have to say, and it was her favourite colour. Most of the rest of my makings are in the UFO stage.
Tank tops are good - try tank tops. They have no collars and no sleeves! ;-)
Cheers,
AJ
Oh Purdie sounds just like my border collie and the wooden floors are sign of his mad 5 minutes LOL. Your quilt sounds just right as they do manage to get muddy paws on everything!!!
Sorry to hear about the frogging on your jumper, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the garment I'm knitting as it has been a long time since I have any done knitting.
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