I have been embroidering for as long as I can remember and have always had a fascination with history, clothing and textiles I am the empty nested Mother of three lovely, fun, crazymaking children. Gardner, mad hobbyist, Self-employed crazy quilter, rogue beader and at times just plain crazy!
The star quilt is done.
She is 98"x 96" Squarish
In spite of the tension snafu at the beginning that had to be picked out
Necessitating the need for an emergency visit to the vac&sew
with a 4 day wait whilst the machine got fixed
My Husband started to call it the Quilt of the damned as
Every damned thing kept happening with it!
and some truly terrible decisions in design at the beginning
It looks quite nice on the bed.
We will be following some of the instructions in
"A Gold work master class" by Alison Cole
Starting with the basics, stretching your base layer of muslin fabric on a frame.
then pinning and stretching your main fabric over that, baste it to the muslin.
Marking the back and basting stitch the outline through the layers.
add your underlayment of padding,many different types!
lofted padding, sculptured padding and stuffed padding
Each will have a different technique
Here we have started with a couched flat gold filament
On the bright side I now have a new pet!
What should I call them?
Fribbls maybe, feeling a little like Rimmer right now
They really need a set of googly eyes
