Saturday was my regular bee meeting day but the center where we meet was having a large meeting, and the room was not available.
So, since I had put together some things I wanted to work on during the meeting, I decided to dedicate three hours to working on it - at home!
This flying geese quilt top has been folded up and "laying-in-waiting" for a long time now.
I started it in 2012 (read the post here), and when I put the final brown strips on I put it aside til I could decide what to do for a final border.
I decided on a homespun/plaid piano key border, and I had been piecing these strips together off and on - whenever the mood struck me. No hurry at all to finish this!
During my bee-time I pieced twosies, to foursies - enough to make several 6" wide groups.
The foursies got pieced into long strips, to be trimmed down to a slightly narrower size because some of my edges were sorta wavy.
Unfortunately, that's the nature of homespun!
So that was my bee day - sew forth and sew on til later!
have you tried starching homespun? I use non-aerosol Niagra for just about all my fabric before cutting. it's made a huge difference in accuracy, especially on anything sewn on the bias or things like homespun and flannel that tend to easily stretch.
ReplyDeleteIt will look great when finished.
ReplyDeleteI like how you did your flying geese. I've never thought about string piecing then cutting. Cool idea
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