I've purchased some quilt wedding and started making a lap quilt. I'm using long strips of fabric and hand sewing them onto the wadding. The fabric I'm using is dress fabric, from a couple of my dresses that had developed rips.
It is most definitely not the proper way to quilt but I don't care, it keeps me busy. I'll potter along with it over the next few weeks.
It's a distraction from Steve's endless ranting and swearing, what with his bad knee, the neighbours who are getting on his nerves, his bad shoulder, the TV not tuning in correctly and the rest of the world not doing as he thinks they should. His complaints are endless.
Part of the problem with me sewing is that he knows there is a craft group here. If I join he will have to spend time getting it closed down, and he'd much rather spend time drinking himself into a stupor!
Rant over, I shall return to my sewing.
5 comments:
Sewing by hand is a good way to pass the time. I've been doing cross stitching again and I donate them to my local history museum group that I volunteer with. They sell silk flower arrangements and floral crafts to help pay for educational programs there. It's a nice way for me to feel productive and helpful. Maybe there are local groups that can use your lap quilts like local nursing homes or hospitals.
There is no "proper " way to quilt, in my opinion. There are those wealthy American ladies who go out and buy new fabric, cut it up, and sew it back together again, in carefully cut shapes, with great precision, muttering mysterious incantations about "Fat Quarters, Half Square Triangles" "Courthouse Steps" and "Tumbling Blocks". There are truly impoverished Indian girls who sew layer upon layer of worn out saris with rows and rows of running stitch to make warm kantha quilts - and in between are women like you and me, who take old dresses and shirts, and a bit of wadding, and find that stitching away soothes our souls, however random the final product is. Enjoy it, relax and go with the flow...🪡🧵🪡🩷
As Angela says, the Indian way is called kantha or Kawandi - they sew strips or pieces to wadding. the stitches are done in rows and it is quite the coming thing! Might be interesting to look at pictures to see but anything that helps pass the time in a productive manner is good. Have you read Anne Bishop's novels of The Others - I don't like any of her other series but this one (despite a bit of gore) are interesting. I like Kerry Greenwood's Miss Fischer mysteries as well as her Corinna Chapman ones. Jack McDevitt's Alex Benedict are pretty good for science fiction - gives you things to wonder about. Also like the Liaden Universe of Sharon Lee and Steve Miller. If you like these, I can probably think of more!
I think it is a great idea.
I have been cutting up my old scrub tops for interesting prints to use during my retirement. They are all well washed and preshrunk. They are a nice weight and the solid colours are teal, blues, and white.
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