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Hazel ([personal profile] ieune) wrote2009-03-23 10:40 am

Of Y seams and #100 silk

A little picspam for this wet and windy monday morning. Well, it is where I am.

Y seams first. Here is the first block of my current hand piecing quiltlet, all dot-to-dot sewing, inset y seams and some curved piecing. A little patience, a couple of pins and it fell together nicely. What else can I tell you? The block is 12" square and comes from one of Marti Mitchell's books. She calls it 'Hands All Around' but I want another name for it.


Here's where the 100 gauge silk comes in. As almost invisible thread for sewing down the continuous bias so that it forms my vining applique. A little patience and it will come along nicely, I think. :)


Other than that, I spent saturday afternoon making the inner for a beanbag; deducing and drawing up the pattern from first principles, crawling about my lofting floor marking up the fabric and cutting out. (Ah ça — mes g’nouors!) Away to my Husqui, who romped happily away at the prospect of long seams and double layers, and by 5 o'clock, I was filling it with those pesky electrostatically charged polystyrene beans. A temporary seam to assess the filling level and it was pronounced good. Now I have to make the smart cover. Here will be another first; upholstery piping. *wibbles*

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