I am impressed by how fast this project is going with you.
Also, the cats have clearly given it a blessing as a blanket. That's how I always decide if my quilting projects are "real." If the cats instantly start trying to sleep on them!
Well, Tiki was already on the pillow when I started laying out the spread. Flynn came in to investigate, and eventually settled down for a snooze on a favorite square, was a little miffed when I wanted it back.
As for project speed, it really is from being a production potter. You tend to figure out systems. In this case, the goal was to minimize the number of times I had to go from the kitchen (where the cutting table and ironing board were) to the sewing room. (Two rooms and a hallway away.)
So I gathered all my scraps in the sewing room, took them to the kitchen. Ironed them all. Cut them all into strips. Matched pairs of interesting colors until I had a stack of 32. Set it aside. Matched another set. Repeat until all done.
Then I'd take the sets into the sewing room. Stitch pairs, one after another, until I had done a stack. Cut apart, match, sew, repeat... 16 pairs, 8 quartets, 4 octets, two hexadectets, one duotridectet. And go to the next stack.
Once everything was sewed, I called it a day. Next afternoon, I could iron out all the hems, lay out my template and start cutting triangles. Any leftover half-triangle was sewed to the next strip. I wasted surprisingly little fabric for all the cutting I did. Triangles were pinned in pairs, stitched all, ironed out all, matched halves, stitched again.
The biggest trick is to be able to just sit down and do one job until it was through, which, given a little undiagnosed ADHD, wasn't easy. (On the other hand, I suppose hyper-focus could actually help, huh?)
Anyway, I'm done with the project for now. Once I've rested and done something else for a while, I may go dig through the closet to see if I missed any good scrap. Eventually, I'll have to get batting, backing, and probably some solid color--black or grey, for a guess--for whatever framing I want to do on the front.
Oh, and thread. I used up all of one spool of black, and most of a second
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Date: 2020-04-08 12:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-04-08 04:48 pm (UTC)Also, the cats have clearly given it a blessing as a blanket. That's how I always decide if my quilting projects are "real." If the cats instantly start trying to sleep on them!
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Date: 2020-04-08 05:42 pm (UTC)As for project speed, it really is from being a production potter. You tend to figure out systems. In this case, the goal was to minimize the number of times I had to go from the kitchen (where the cutting table and ironing board were) to the sewing room. (Two rooms and a hallway away.)
So I gathered all my scraps in the sewing room, took them to the kitchen. Ironed them all. Cut them all into strips. Matched pairs of interesting colors until I had a stack of 32. Set it aside. Matched another set. Repeat until all done.
Then I'd take the sets into the sewing room. Stitch pairs, one after another, until I had done a stack. Cut apart, match, sew, repeat... 16 pairs, 8 quartets, 4 octets, two hexadectets, one duotridectet. And go to the next stack.
Once everything was sewed, I called it a day. Next afternoon, I could iron out all the hems, lay out my template and start cutting triangles. Any leftover half-triangle was sewed to the next strip. I wasted surprisingly little fabric for all the cutting I did. Triangles were pinned in pairs, stitched all, ironed out all, matched halves, stitched again.
The biggest trick is to be able to just sit down and do one job until it was through, which, given a little undiagnosed ADHD, wasn't easy. (On the other hand, I suppose hyper-focus could actually help, huh?)
Anyway, I'm done with the project for now. Once I've rested and done something else for a while, I may go dig through the closet to see if I missed any good scrap. Eventually, I'll have to get batting, backing, and probably some solid color--black or grey, for a guess--for whatever framing I want to do on the front.
Oh, and thread. I used up all of one spool of black, and most of a second