Two Cool Quilts Elsewhere
Posted by Lyn on March 18, 2008 under Elsewhere | 
I’m making very, very slow progress on my current quilt project. I pieced the back and did the label the other day. Next up is basting — which, due to lack of space — is a pain. I also found a mistake I made in the quilt that I will attribute to pregnancy-brain. I decided not to fix it; that will just have to be part of this quilt’s charm.
In the meantime, I found a couple of other cool quilts elsewhere. First, Cher made a quilt using a technique I hadn’t heard of before called “convergence.” I could definitely see trying this out sometime with some of my favorite fabrics for a wall-hanging or baby quilt.
Second was this t-shirt quilt over in the flickr quilting group. I have a pile of t-shirts I’ve been planning to make into a quilt for awhile but have been stuck for inspiration. This quilt has inspired me a little bit to maybe start thinking more about that project.
cher said,
great that you are plugging along on a quilt-I often pin in a very limited space. One trick I find helpful is using those fold up cardboard “cutting boards”=that would be from making garments-I use it as a base for laying the quilt sandwich on-either on the kitchen table-or on our king size bed. You can then pin through the sandwich or baste using the cardboard to protect the surface. It’s not fool proof but I have had very, very few folds/wrinkles in my backing from doing this. I pin the center part, then shift the sandwich to do the edges if it is large. I am too old to be crawling around on the floor!