The past few days I've gotten a couple hours here and there to start sewing together the recycled blue jean squares for our picnic blanket. Here's what it looked like as of yesterday afternoon, today I've got 5 more rows sewn on. I've got 6 more to go.
I really love this project - many thanks to Bonnie Hunter of the Quiltville Inn for making it recently and selling the pattern. Yes, I could have figured it out without a pattern but I always want to support other fiber artists and this is what she does for a living.
I've decided that I won't even ask a long arm quilter to quilt this for me, it's so thick at the corner seams, it's sure to break needles. I won't be using batting as it's so heavy already, just a backing fabric and binding. I'm going to tie this quilt. I think that will be perfect for a picnic blanket. Soon the search will be on for the perfect backing fabric - it must be colorful to go with the colorful stripes.
Hopefully in the not too distant future I will be able to spend more time creating, which means I will then have more to share.
A housekeeping note - on my blogger dashboard there's a note that if followers use the FollowByEmail option to read my blog that it will be going away in July 2021. So, if you get an email when I post to my blog you will now have to bookmark my blog and be sure to check in on your own to see what I'm doing......there will no longer be those emails.
Sorry the family stuff is still not fun and taking up so much of your time.
ReplyDeleteLove this picnic quilt/blanket! Will you make the ties bright and showy, or discreet? I agree, it's important to support designers so we can continue to benefit from their creative ideas.
Nancy, I'm not sure yet about the ties - am leaning toward colorful. Have been looking at very colorful backing fabrics online but no decision made yet.
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