Quilt Part Two

This quilt is going together so much easier than I had expected. I got all the blocks cut this morning then spent the early part of the afternoon laying them out in the correct pattern on a sheet laid on the floor of the sewing room. The blocks were pinned to the sheet in their final position and this allows the sheet to be rolled up to cover the blocks when I am not working on them; in theory this will stop the dog from disturbing the pattern when she wanders about over them. There really isn't any point shooing her off. The more you throw her off, the more she wants to be on there. So I gave up. It has already received the canine seal of approval. She has slept on several parts of it this afternoon, with absolutely no regard for the pins!!

This evening I sewed up the first four strips of blocks and even got them attached to each other so it is starting to take shape and look like a proper quilt. However, its a bit late now to be sewing something that needs careful matching, so I have decided it would be best to stop for the night before a mistake gets made.

Because it is going to be a sofa throw rather than a bed quilt, I am toying with the idea of backing it with fleece rather than sandwiching it with batting and backing. I have another quilt that I did this with and it stays put on the bed/sofa very nicely due to the fleece being less slippery than cotton. It also takes about a week less to dry which is a huge advantage during the wet winter weather. However, it does feel a bit like cheating, not putting the proper backing on so I am wondering whether using the fleece as batting and putting the cotton backing on would work.