There's a pile of quilt tops sitting on a chair outside my sewing room and this year I'm attempting to move them along and get several of them finished, so I pulled my Kaffe Fassett
Blue Diamonds from the pile and had a chat with Roberta to see if she had a suitable backing (despite having a pretty significant stack of backings - I dare not say how many - there was nothing in my stash that would do the trick).
We found one that would do in a pinch, but it wasn't really doing the quilt justice so I decided to keep looking. Well, I think I struck pay dirt. I happened upon a great little geometric pink print and got about 4.5 metres of it for - get this - $3/metre! Bingo!
I wasn't convinced that it was going to be a big enough piece, and it isn't, but at that price there was enough to make a very good start on a pieced backing. So, back into the sewing room I went and voila - another pink print, a small piece of blue (that's a VIP print that has been around
forever), a deep turquoise and a teal/green that I brought back from Beijing a few years ago. Perfect.
So, everything is washed and ironed and now I need to start laying out some options. Hopefully soon it will be ready to take back to Roberta for quilting....M
3 comments:
How good it is when everything falls into place like that- loks like it will be a fun and lovely backing!
Glad you found something that will work for the backing. All those pieces will look great together. ome more quilt closer to being finished. Yay!
I completely understand the pile of quilt tops! I quilt them myself, so the pile gets quite large at times, lol. However, I still bind by hand and that's the part that really gets me!
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