more fabric cutting.
Sep. 29th, 2006 05:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
celticdragonflyI just came back downstairs after another session of working with the future-quilting-fabric, former-outfits.
Feeling the wear in the fabric, and thinking of what that one lady was insisting at the quilt show - yes, quilts made from these old calico outfits WILL wear out faster than brand new bought fabric. But then, since it's my first quilting, and sure to have lots of errors, I think that should be considered a feature, not a bug.
I think I'm getting faster at it all. Still slow. Cutting it all up, trimming it, ironing it. I kept reminding myself as cheerfully as I could that hey, I don't have to prewash this fabric! Having recently watched Animal House at a movie night, I started to feel like Brother Bluto trying to cheer up Flounder about his brother's wrecked car by bashing beercans with his head, and not doing much to help.
Then I started to think about what D-Day would do for a quilt... eeek.
Well, soon I should be actually cutting patches - which means I need to finally make up my mind on which size - and starting to piece. I did watch a Jinny Beyer video on patchwork. A lot of the start of it was "long involved tricks for quilters who are too scared to do the math", which did not feel relevant, but I did learn some useful things.
Feeling the wear in the fabric, and thinking of what that one lady was insisting at the quilt show - yes, quilts made from these old calico outfits WILL wear out faster than brand new bought fabric. But then, since it's my first quilting, and sure to have lots of errors, I think that should be considered a feature, not a bug.
I think I'm getting faster at it all. Still slow. Cutting it all up, trimming it, ironing it. I kept reminding myself as cheerfully as I could that hey, I don't have to prewash this fabric! Having recently watched Animal House at a movie night, I started to feel like Brother Bluto trying to cheer up Flounder about his brother's wrecked car by bashing beercans with his head, and not doing much to help.
Then I started to think about what D-Day would do for a quilt... eeek.
Well, soon I should be actually cutting patches - which means I need to finally make up my mind on which size - and starting to piece. I did watch a Jinny Beyer video on patchwork. A lot of the start of it was "long involved tricks for quilters who are too scared to do the math", which did not feel relevant, but I did learn some useful things.