Yesterday I started something new in a workshop given by Elly Prins Machine Quilting: a patchwork jacket! I wanted to make the main colour terracotta, but I didn't have enough different fabrics with that shade, so I settled for a collection of browns with some terracotta.
I spent most of the morning cutting ten long-quarters into 2.5" strips. Next into given lengths to be joined, ready for stitching together into long strings.
This was quite a slow process. Elly showed us a useful method for ensuring an even distribution of the fabrics in the finished result.
Now I'm finally sewing; joining all the small pieces from the long quarters, firstly into twos, then into fours and finally into eights.
My one monthly goal is to finish my jacket by the end of the month.
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Happy sewing
Marly.
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