A friend from long ago needs the credit for sparking my return. She emailed asking me to take a quilting class and on a whim I signed up. At boot camp we learned everything from how to cut the fabric to machine binding in only three days. A finished quilt and return of an old friend, can’t ask for much more. Now we are signed up for another class and enjoyed an afternoon having lunch and shopping for fabric.
During the class I learned a bit about my quilting self. It ends up I can follow a pattern and complete a quilt but it did not mean I have any idea how to quilt. This first started to surface by the instructor pointing out when cutting strips of fabric to cut towards the salvage, making it so the center of the strip is not bowed at the fold. Then when sewing pieces together do not start at one side a go straight to the other, put together pairs and then sew the pairs together. The best one of all was once squares are pieced together clean them up and cut to the appropriate size. Technique, technique, technique; I need more.
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