What I'm doing today:
I'm binding another quilt! Seems like as word gets out that I like to bind - the quilts keep coming my way. This is one my daughter Em and her friend, Jayme, started a few years back and it's finally ready to bind. Jayme is getting married and we want to give it to her before she returns to Como, Italy for the wedding.
Beautiful fall colors and an ultrasuede border. It is so soft and heavy as it must measure 90" square. It would not be my choice of fabric for the border, but the color is fabulous and it really looks nice with the embroidery that was on it to begin with. Learn something new all the time. Question is will it wear well?
Destination for a road trip?
Guest curated by Julia D. Zgliniec, Quilts: Two Centuries of American Tradition and Technique presents the patterns, stitches, fabrics and other construction techniques of the Bowers’ most popular quilts, and many that have never before been exhibited. To satisfy our curious and creative visitors, the top and bottom sides of several quilts will be visible. The exhibition features a variety of 19th and early 20th century patterns, a “Whole Cloth” or “Linsey-Woolsey” quilt dating to 1776, a 1930s “Utility” quilt made of men’s suiting samples, and an unfinished variation of a “Crazy” quilt from c. 1850. Made using paper templates of old receipts, bills, letters and other documents, this particular quilt is every bit as interesting as a historical item as it is a textile.
Soldiers' Angels project
I mentioned my Saturday was mostly taken up with an 8 hour class on the Old Testament, but I did get around to finish the binding on this Soldiers' Angel quilt. This is my favorite of the 7 I am working on right now. I'm just doing the binding and labeling. I do have a block I made in this one. We have 72 quilts to send this year. Our guild members have been marvelous at pitching in and helping with these.
On the left are three others ready to go. We hope they will bring some measure of comfort to our soldiers abroad this coming holiday season.
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