Life is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can’t erase it.
~E.B. White
Quilting
Yes, I started BB2 and it progressed into some very light blues… which are not in the original fabric pull. That doesn’t matter except the fabric is still pulled and taking up floor space. Now I’m trying to use a few of the orange and red squares I cut so profligately.
First, a simple alternate diagonal. Nah.
\Trip Around the World was another, “No.”
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Of course, I still have some Crossroads blocks, this time with red backgrounds. And of course, it’s still a great border.
But… they don’t play well with the center. However, the green and orange print makes a good inner border. There’s about a yard so I’m cutting the border wide now. I can cut it down later. Once I made an appliqué border a mere six inches wide and had loads of difficulties fitting things in.
I’m determined to appliqué this round. There are several yards of leftover stems in my binding box from the Spiderweb quilt that are much too narrow for this wider inner border. Yuck.
I’ll cut some wider stems using Audrey’s method. I think another quilt teacher used that same technique years ago. More recently, someone suggested the bias fold method and I bought several of those tools. It works well until I get to a seam, then I always have an unsightly bulge. Audrey’s plan eliminates that issue.
Reading
Mike Duncan wrote a well-researched book on the Marquis de Lafayette. I didn’t know much about his life in France. Did you know he went to school with one of their future kings? And I learned more about his time in the US.
Happy Thanksgiving.
Enjoy the day,
Ann
