Today I am grateful for washing machines. In past ages people had few clothes because making them was labor intensive and cleaning them was a hard job. I always think of this when there are very old houses on House Hunters and the closet only has room for a couple hooks inside. Now we can have more clothes and wash them regularly. It feels so good to put on clean clothes. I also appreciate just dumping the clothes into the washer and letting the machine do the work. I love labor saving devices.
On Sunday a group of friends and I started a Round Robin quilt project. We each made a quilt block to go in the center of our quilt. Then we each gave our block to someone else to add a border to the block. Every two weeks we pass the quilt on to someone else who puts another border on it. We pass the quilt on to the same person each time. When all nine of us have had a chance to put a border on each quilt, we will have a big meeting and see all the quilts. We won't know what our quilt looks like until the end. I think it will be great fun because every quilt will be different and will need a different type of border. I will have to be creative and dig into my stash to find the right fabrics. Some of the quilters are experienced and some are not, so it will be interesting to see what happens.
The block I used for the center of my quilt was one I made a number of years ago. My mother had come for a visit. (I'm starting to see that many of my fiber and fabric adventures start this way.) We were looking at quilting magazines and books and decided that it would be fun to do a project together. We saw an advertisement for silk fabric remnants that intrigued us. My mother said that she would pay for the fabric if I would make the quilt. It sounded like a good deal to me. Who would pass up silk? So we sent away for the silk remnants. Then as we looked at my newest books she found a block that she really liked. That was the one for the silk quilt.
After my mother returned home, I decided to make a sample block to see how it went together. It was very complicated. I made one block for her and one for me and vowed that there would be no more. (This is the block I used for the Round Robin.) She would have to pick something else.
Then the silk arrived. It was beautiful. About half was in bright colors and the other half in taupe and muted mauve and neutrals. None of the pieces were very big, but that was alright for piecing. I was very excited to work with it. What will it turn into?
On Sunday a group of friends and I started a Round Robin quilt project. We each made a quilt block to go in the center of our quilt. Then we each gave our block to someone else to add a border to the block. Every two weeks we pass the quilt on to someone else who puts another border on it. We pass the quilt on to the same person each time. When all nine of us have had a chance to put a border on each quilt, we will have a big meeting and see all the quilts. We won't know what our quilt looks like until the end. I think it will be great fun because every quilt will be different and will need a different type of border. I will have to be creative and dig into my stash to find the right fabrics. Some of the quilters are experienced and some are not, so it will be interesting to see what happens.
The block I used for the center of my quilt was one I made a number of years ago. My mother had come for a visit. (I'm starting to see that many of my fiber and fabric adventures start this way.) We were looking at quilting magazines and books and decided that it would be fun to do a project together. We saw an advertisement for silk fabric remnants that intrigued us. My mother said that she would pay for the fabric if I would make the quilt. It sounded like a good deal to me. Who would pass up silk? So we sent away for the silk remnants. Then as we looked at my newest books she found a block that she really liked. That was the one for the silk quilt.
After my mother returned home, I decided to make a sample block to see how it went together. It was very complicated. I made one block for her and one for me and vowed that there would be no more. (This is the block I used for the Round Robin.) She would have to pick something else.
Then the silk arrived. It was beautiful. About half was in bright colors and the other half in taupe and muted mauve and neutrals. None of the pieces were very big, but that was alright for piecing. I was very excited to work with it. What will it turn into?
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