Wow! I like it.
All the blocks are in the Electric Quilt block libraries.
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takes me back to the way I learned to make quilts … by hand, using scissors and pencils to mark and cut out pieces, then needle and thread to stitch them together.
It also reminds me of the polyester batting which was all I could find in country Australia at the time. Yuk!
I still love handwork, but not that early wadding!
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Yeah Not big on polyester myself 😉 Thanks!
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Serena,
Thank you for flying the flag for handwork.
Judy B
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I can only second about the polyester wadding. I hate it, it’s cheap and nasty and difficult to quilt because it doesn’t ‘cling’ to your fabrics. I’m quilting a quilt with poly wadding at the moment on my domestic machine for someone (not for money but because this woman is going through a rough patch and I volunteered. I’m trying to make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear). It was basted elsewhere and basic stitch in the ditch completed before it was handed over to me with several puckers on the the back – yuck.
I did use poly wadding in my first quilt because a) I didn’t know any better and b) I couldn’t afford anything else. I’Il will say this though, the quality of that polyester wadding almost 17 years ago was much superior to what’s available now.
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Glynis,
There was one man made fibre which was lovely … used it for one quilt and it was beautiful to work with and is soft and warm in use. Never found it again.
I haven’t looked at what is available now … just use wool or cotton, sometimes with poly, sometimes without. The quilts I made with polyester are still working well … like polyester fabrics. They are tough, but not as comfortable to wear or use.
Judy B
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