It has been on the sofa a couple of days now so it is serving it's purpose and the dogs seem to like it! I used some plain white cotton for the backing and I cut strips of the spotty fabric to bind it. I did want a contrast but nothing I had was big enough and went with it and I didn't want to buy binding especially. The wadding has been sitting in my cupboard for some time, I have only hand stitched all the way through where the flowers are, I think it may need more to stop the movement so any tips would be appreciated as to designs and so on as I haven't really done many quilts. The only big one I made years ago was machine stitched through in diamonds, I don't really want to do that to this one.
We have been out walking in a another new spot today, Agden Reservoir Bradfield. The superb weather once more put a beautiful sky over everything and we felt like the only people who knew about this one for most of the way around. We eventually saw a couple of other people but on the whole very quiet.
The sun on the water looked very inviting (not that I would go in and you can't of course).
Back down in the village there was a game of cricket taking place.
All very English village.
That's a lovely quilt. I hope it is not just for your dogs :-)
ReplyDeleteI am sewing hexagons together, too, but I decided against the flowers because I didn't do any planning when cutting out fabric. Have a good Sunday.
It looks good. It was the right decision to stitch them to the quilt rather than make a whole hexagon topper for a dog! Did you want to hand quilt all the way through the quilt to avoid any wrinkles? You can simply do running stitch through all layers with some embroidery threads. That always stops it rucking up. You could quilt a grid over it to put each flower in a little border/window and that would hold it still. Jo xx
ReplyDeleteThanks Jo, I may try the border around the flowers and possibly a bit in-between where there is a lot of grey. I do share the quilt with the dogs!
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