Life has been taking too many turns in different directions
recently so the August quilt post is a tad tardy. The photos show a toile quilt in progress. The toile print
is from one of RJR Fabrics’s early Smithsonian lines - the Rising Sun (1825-1835), I think.
Two panels of about 40” plus wide, respectively, were sewn
together. I am not sure just how long the quilt will be but it should be large
enough for a double bed. There will be no borders, just the usual knife edges.
The reverse is plain muslin with a double-cross hatching
pattern (difficult to photograph.) I penciled the pattern on the muslin, using a stencil, before I
tacked/basted the three layers together. The middle layer is a cotton
batting/wadding. The panels were sewn by hand and is being hand-quilted and
will be hand-finished.
I am ashamed to say that I started this quilt quite a few
years ago. I was madly trying out all sorts of patterns, materials, techniques,
tools, etc., and many, many quilts were started but not all were finished. This
one is extremely heavy so I have put off the quilting until every winter,
thinking I could snuggle under it as I worked on it. The double-hatching is
also a very time-consuming quilting pattern. Those are all of the excuses. If
the coming winter is very cold, I may just get this quilt finished in 2015,
along with a few other stragglers.
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