Test Run

You've seen this before. I just didn't tell you it was a test run for the letters on Helen's quilt. See how the space between the letter "I" and its dot, and the upper and lower horizontals on the letter "F" go up at angles to each other instead of making a straight horizontal line? That's when I knew these letters were going to have to be sewn together very carefully. I knew I would have to use the skinniest presser foot I could find on my sewing machine, since many of the elements would finish out at 1/2" wide (just less than 13 mm). That half inch was critical to the way the letters would look in the finished quilt.

More on the Helen's quilt tomorrow.... Back to some unfinished business...

I had hoped to get the top of The Quick Brown Fox finished before my trip to Maryland in March, but it wasn't possible. I hate stopping work in the middle of a project. I like to keep the energy and the excitement going. If the work gets too stressful, I might set it aside for a few days to clear my thinking, but I hate just stopping in the middle of a good run. Once my new sewing studio was ready, I completed the panel for The Lazy Dog.The quilt still isn't complete, it's in four big pieces, the fox, the dog, the two flowers on the lower right are all separate. And the pieces around the four sides are just set down to straighten out the jagged edges. I will sew them down, and then square up the top. The finished top won't be quite so wide.
I'm pretty happy with it.