What have I learnt?
1. My taste in colours changed, and I am over little flowers print... I am even surprised that my teenage self was into that (clearly showing signs of the countryside girl in me).
2. The purchase of a sewing machine makes my life SO much better. I did everything by hand (all these squares are stitched by hand... that is dedication, and clearly the reason why I gave up). But I finished with the machine within an hour...
3. Buy enough fabric - I need more prep work.. Here is the 'dark' corner. I like it obviously because it accounts for the time that it took to complete, but I can see that it is not ideal if I were to give it to someone (outside my family that is).
All in all, I am impressed with the design I came up all these years ago, and very happy to see it finshed and sitting on my armchair.Well, once the quilt was finished it was time to move to another project. This is a present for one of my friends. She was very specific about the colour... I am knitting with my favourite yarn, mirasol sulka, with 12mm needles using the herringbone stitch (a real pain, but so worth it). What do you think it will be? She has just bought a new flat...
that quilt is so lovely!! what a labour of love, no doubt. And I love mirasol sulka, too! It's easily one of my favourite yarns.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely admire anyone doing quilting. I just haven't got the patience for it! I really like the combination of colours. You must so pleased to see it finally finished after all this time.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations! It must be wonderful to see a finished quilt after all of these years. And you're right: it's a perfect record of time and changes ... lovely!
ReplyDeleteYour quilt is beautiful -and a real achievement! I really like the colours you've chosen.
ReplyDeleteI've just hopped over to your blog from Katie's... happy to meet another London blogger :)