Baby
Botanicals: 1995 (Started: 1993)
I purchased a panel of cute flower prints one year and wanted to piece up a fresh, spring quilt. This easy design was speedily machine pieced during one of my holidays.
I had fallen for scrap quilts and wanted to select random colours for Puss in the Corner blocks. It was a pleasure to rotary cut and machine piece this easy quilt after all the concentrating at TAFE classes. I found a bright flower garden backing which just seemed right for it too!
But how to quilt it? I still had “a bit of a backlog” on the hand
quilting front when my friend from the Literary Institute (RLI) Quilters offered me a
place on a machine quilting class with Lee Cleland (Jun/Jul 95). I took it up
with relish. Baby Botanicals became my “practice”
piece after days practicing on class samplers. I can remember
sitting at my dining table overlooking a lovely view of Sydney, enjoying the
machine quilting process, and now day dreaming of all the quilts I would be
able to finish. I think this must have
been my first use of a cotton batt which took the machining quiet well. I liked the end result – not too puffy – so
have mostly used cotton wadding since then for quilts I intend to machine
quilt.
Just for the Record:
Quilt Finished Size: 122.5x 157.5cm
Block Size: 7.5”
Cut in: 1993
Pieced & Basted: Machine 1993-94
Quilted: Machine 1995
Quilt Type: Own Design
Quilt Finished: 1995
Exhibited:
Collection: Home# 024
Pattern Name: Puss in the Corner
Pattern Source: Traditional
Fabrics Purchased:
Fabric Design: Floral prints & Plains
Fabric Style: Cotton
Materials Type: Cotton
Wadding Type: Cotton Batt
Backing: Cotton
Lessons Learned:
The small size of this quilt made machine quilting not such an adventurous activity. I really enjoyed Lee’s class (2 days in all) and had come away knowing that I could break away from my traditional hand work beginnings to use a wider variety of machine techniques well enough to finish off my quilts - faster.
I purchased a panel of cute flower prints one year and wanted to piece up a fresh, spring quilt. This easy design was speedily machine pieced during one of my holidays.
I had fallen for scrap quilts and wanted to select random colours for Puss in the Corner blocks. It was a pleasure to rotary cut and machine piece this easy quilt after all the concentrating at TAFE classes. I found a bright flower garden backing which just seemed right for it too!
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| Cheater Print & Puss in the Corner |
For starters on this lap quilt, I did a
traditional stay stitch to hold the layers together. Then I did a circular outline stitch over the
panels, finally adding a free machine stipple to the border. That was a big leap forward; and not bad
given that I was still using my trusty old domestic, Ernie Elna.
Quilt Finished Size: 122.5x 157.5cm
Block Size: 7.5”
Cut in: 1993
Pieced & Basted: Machine 1993-94
Quilted: Machine 1995
Quilt Type: Own Design
Quilt Finished: 1995
Exhibited:
Collection: Home# 024
Pattern Name: Puss in the Corner
Pattern Source: Traditional
Fabrics Purchased:
Fabric Design: Floral prints & Plains
Fabric Style: Cotton
Materials Type: Cotton
Wadding Type: Cotton Batt
Backing: Cotton
Lessons Learned:
The small size of this quilt made machine quilting not such an adventurous activity. I really enjoyed Lee’s class (2 days in all) and had come away knowing that I could break away from my traditional hand work beginnings to use a wider variety of machine techniques well enough to finish off my quilts - faster.
