Eight Years in the Making

I made this back in the summer of 2012. I pulled it out of the wardrobe during Covid lockdown and finished the quilting earlier this week.

It's made from old wool blankets taken from my Mum's linen cupboard. The blankets may have come from my Gran before that.

It's quilted with Perle thread #8. When I first put it together for quilting, I used wool batting but it was too thick to quilt. So I pulled it apart and used a flannelette backing only. The binding is a nice green floral Tilda. I think if it had been around eight years ago, it would have been a perfect choice to use in the body of this quilt. The curved edges came to me during the quilting process. During the quilting process the quilts tend to lie over the couch or on the floor and that's when the curved edges came to me. It's my first curved edge quilt.

This quilt weighs a tonne. Hence the name, the woolly mammoth.

Day 25 | Same old, same old

Bias experiment, quilting, my Sky. 

I am getting a bit sick of same old, same old food. I may have to go to the supermarket at the end of the week. Pretty sure the PM is going to keep us at Level 4 until after Anzac weekend. Then I reckon we’ll be at Level 3, which someone on National Radio called Level 4 with takeaways, for four weeks after that. Looking forward to a butter chicken, rice and naan!

Day 21 | First day of learning at home

Alarm, run (broken knee), meeting, meeting, meeting, school work, sewing, school work, tv and heat pump.

The Drunk Wool Quilt | Day 8

This might be the slowest quilt in the history of the world. I finished the top in 2012. I basted it July 2019. Discovered that with batting, it was too thick to quilt. April 2020, lockdownlevelfour-time, I was excited to un-baste it and re-baste it with just a flannel backing. I love having hand sewing on the go. It's nice being able to sit in the afternoon with a bit of Netflix to slow quilt. Hopefully, the pink thread will get me through the 16 circles.

And here's today's word from the other project I have on the go -