Emerging

April 16th, 2008

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I have emerged from hibernation and I am hoping that spring is finally here! The first buds of spring are gracing both our neighborhood and my sewing table at the moment. I am trying, rather unsuccessfully, to machine piece my first quilt. This is difficult for me, as I am used to having supreme control of matching up corners when I hand quilt. I can make those seams behave so well when sewing by hand. It all started about ten days ago. We got a new shipment of fabric at work and I simply could not resist, so I purchased the Dandelion Girl layer cake. I decided then and there that this would be the perfect batch of fabric for my first machine pieced quilt. I had already picked that pattern I wanted to do, so when I popped over to Tammy’s blog yesterday and saw her finished version it motivate me to get busy! I really want to make a disappearing nine patch, so I carefully cut the layer cake into charm squares, laid them all out on the floor in a pleasing fashion, then neatly stacked them up and put them away. I decided to practice first with the remaining squares. I have worked like a busy bee this afternoon and found that I still need lots of practice.

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3 Responses to “Emerging”

  1. rachael Says:
    April 16th, 2008 at 7:54 pm

    Hmmm. All of a sudden I have this urge to make a quilt. I’ve never had that urge before. Oh, no, look what you started…

  2. Tammy Says:
    April 17th, 2008 at 8:03 am

    What beautiful fabric! I love it!

    I have a tip for you, take it or leave it. ;-) While you’re sewing the nine-patches together, back stitch along the seam where you’ll be cutting. I found that my seams were coming apart when I was cutting them for the disappearing act. LOL So I started backstitching, and that solved that problem!

  3. adrienne Says:
    April 24th, 2008 at 7:50 am

    It is going to be beautiful! I will do my first quilt very soon! I am not doing it by hand lol

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