When I travelled in the USA teaching I would add the Carol Doak USA star blocks to my collection, trying to make one for each State I visited. I have actually been to 31 different States, but 31 is an odd number so I have 30 Stars in my quilt. They are paper pieced and made from Thimbleberries fabrics, which I also collected on my travels.
Every so often I would get the blocks out and try to think of a way to complete the quilt, only to put them away again.
At one point I decided to ‘quilt as you go’, cut backing fabric and batting, but still there was no progress.
I made myself a promise to finish it this year, and while on holiday a few weeks ago in Louth Lincolnshire I bought the Grunge Gold fabric and made the decision to sash the blocks and get it completed. I also machine embroidered the name of each State on each block in small letters.
This afternoon it went to Janie Rowthorn [janierowthorn@yahoo.co.uk] to be long arm quilted, she always does such a great job, and is based near Wellingborough in Northamptonshire. I’ll show the quilt again when I have it returned and get the binding sewn on.
Something NEW to me...
Finger knitting myself a hat.
1 comment:
Look forward to seeing the hat when its finished, not tried finger knitting
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