I have had a profile on here and lurked for some time. I haven’t written much because I had pretty much stopped writing after Open Diary flatlined some years ago and interest in writing waned when something easy was no longer available. Maybe I am lazy.
Now, I spend a fair bit of time doing fiber crafts and enjoy it. I have recently taken up one of my mom’s quilts (she died some years ago) and that thing is a mess. She had pieced the design - meaning she sewed a bunch of fabric together (I know most will know what “pieced” means, but some won’t) and then put borders all around the edges. She did not check to see if the project would lie flat before putting on the borders, likely because she was sick of the project and wanted it done. But, she did not put it on batting and backing, meaning it is not a serviceable item until the backing and edges are attached and completed. I have had to remove the outer border altogether since she added using a method that almost guarantees ruffling, and the inner border has been partially removed and re-sewn where she had deviated from the straight line creating corners that were not 90 degrees. Those will not lie flat.
What’s with this lying flat business anyway? Well, you can’t quilt and quilt top to batting and backing if there are puckers. And there are more puckers in this quilt than at a persimmon tasting convention. I am abandoning this one for the time being and working on another quilt that I am piecing from scratch.
I had just finished another quilt that my grandmother had created the top but never backed or quilted it. I can’t figure out how to post pictures here - I use google photos and the urls do not work here - so just imagine a burgundy quilt made in the Tennessee waltz pattern. Like my mom, Gran was not so detail oriented to ensure that the quilt would lie flat or that the edges did not bow inward due to the ignore bias of the fabric. I had to create a 3/4” frame around the edge after quilting because when I was trimming it away from the excess backing there were places where the fabric bowed inward 1/2”. I managed it and it looks good except that the pencil marks from where she stenciled her intended quilting pattern will not wash out. They have been on there since the 1990’s at least. C’est la vie. Well that is enough prattling on for my first entry here. No one will see it anyway, lol.
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