Handle With Care!
Stasha came over this week with a quilt top for me to finish for her friend Elizabeth, whom I've not met. I must say that Mead Quilters (Stasha's group) certainly excel at hand piecing! This beautiful English paper pieced top in Liberty fabrics (fussy cut to perfection), is absolutely immaculately pieced. I had FOUR daylight bulbs on in my sewing room today and I still couldn't see her stitches!
However - it must be a common dilemma with hexagon shaped edges - how do you achieve a straight edged border. Elizabeth's daughter had top stitched the border on by machine. Although it had preserved the points on the edge of the design, I felt it didn't do justice to the whole piece, so I asked her permission to remove it and sew it back on with a traditional seam.
It has literally taken me all day until 11pm to do it. I took great care to fold out the irregular edges and line them up against the straight border, without losing the integrity of the edge design. Look at how many pins I used! Not like me - I'm a 'non-pinner' by nature.
But I think it was worth it. When someone has put such effort in to their work, I am determined to do my best for them. It has improved it, somewhat, before I start to add my own contribution. Pictures of the finished piece to follow.
And just by way of light relief this week; I have added this cute little bug to my growing Tilda family.
She has settled on the flowery china in my kitchen!
Happy Quilting Everyone!
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