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I’m basically unsupervised at work today since my deskmate took the day off and there’s… very little to do… I feel like most of what we do in a day is each of us just trying to look busy for the other of us.
So I’ve got my crazy quilt bits spread out on my desk and a tutorial on various hand stitches up on my screen and I’m just openly fucking off, because nobody who cares is here. (I’m getting my daily work done too, don’t judge.)
lousy cellphone pics behind cut
note that i didn’t think to bring pins. but. right side to right side and running stitch is the order of the day for assembly. Also some of the machine embroidered pieces, I hemmed on the serger because the material was fray-ey.
yeah i’m using a spare needle for a pin here because i forgot to bring pins. i found two, eventually, tucked into a ball of perle cotton for some reason.
So crazy quilt blocks are usually made by appliqueing each separate bit down to a backing material. I’m kind of… hybrid-ing that, attaching them to each other and then also embroidering them down to backing material. I’m not working in any kind of organized or measured fashion though. Traditionally you also do a square of crazy quilting, then join it to other squares, and I’m not. Making squares. Or any kind of regular shape. Hmm.
I have random scraps of vaguely trapezoidal muslin on hand so that’s what I’m doing, and I’m not trimming the edges, I’m going to try to attach them as they are. But that’s a problem for Future Me, at this juncture.
Three joined pieces being joined to the backing material. I’ve always felt bad about my hand stitches being uneven but they’re okay really, it turns out.
I have no iron here, of course, so I can’t press things flat like you’re Absolutely Supposed To. I’m using my cellphone charging battery pack as an iron, kind of– dampening my fingers, finger-pressing a seam, then setting it under the hot battery pack to smooth out the wrinkles and maybe set a kind of crease. It’s not hot enough but it’s better than nothing.
Now, joined to one another and then stitched to the backing muslin and flattened, I’m doing the traditional embroidery stitches to hold the pieces to the backing.
Apparently crazy quilts usually don’t have batting really, and are for decoration only, not any kind of use, so that’s why the embroidery stitches are used for “quilting” and then the backing is put on afterward. But I do want to add batting. In those rare cases, then the quilt is usually tied at the end to join it to the batting without having to stitch over the embroidery stitches. I dunno about that, we’ll see. But. Anyway.
I’ve just taught myself feather stitch I’m so clever. (From here.) So here I am so far.
Hey, it’s a beginning, which I didn’t have before.
(Your picture was not posted)
I’m basically unsupervised at work today since my deskmate took the day off and there’s… very little to do… I feel like most of what we do in a day is each of us just trying to look busy for the other of us.
So I’ve got my crazy quilt bits spread out on my desk and a tutorial on various hand stitches up on my screen and I’m just openly fucking off, because nobody who cares is here. (I’m getting my daily work done too, don’t judge.)
lousy cellphone pics behind cut
note that i didn’t think to bring pins. but. right side to right side and running stitch is the order of the day for assembly. Also some of the machine embroidered pieces, I hemmed on the serger because the material was fray-ey.
yeah i’m using a spare needle for a pin here because i forgot to bring pins. i found two, eventually, tucked into a ball of perle cotton for some reason.
So crazy quilt blocks are usually made by appliqueing each separate bit down to a backing material. I’m kind of… hybrid-ing that, attaching them to each other and then also embroidering them down to backing material. I’m not working in any kind of organized or measured fashion though. Traditionally you also do a square of crazy quilting, then join it to other squares, and I’m not. Making squares. Or any kind of regular shape. Hmm.
I have random scraps of vaguely trapezoidal muslin on hand so that’s what I’m doing, and I’m not trimming the edges, I’m going to try to attach them as they are. But that’s a problem for Future Me, at this juncture.
Three joined pieces being joined to the backing material. I’ve always felt bad about my hand stitches being uneven but they’re okay really, it turns out.
I have no iron here, of course, so I can’t press things flat like you’re Absolutely Supposed To. I’m using my cellphone charging battery pack as an iron, kind of– dampening my fingers, finger-pressing a seam, then setting it under the hot battery pack to smooth out the wrinkles and maybe set a kind of crease. It’s not hot enough but it’s better than nothing.
Now, joined to one another and then stitched to the backing muslin and flattened, I’m doing the traditional embroidery stitches to hold the pieces to the backing.
Apparently crazy quilts usually don’t have batting really, and are for decoration only, not any kind of use, so that’s why the embroidery stitches are used for “quilting” and then the backing is put on afterward. But I do want to add batting. In those rare cases, then the quilt is usually tied at the end to join it to the batting without having to stitch over the embroidery stitches. I dunno about that, we’ll see. But. Anyway.
I’ve just taught myself feather stitch I’m so clever. (From here.) So here I am so far.
Hey, it’s a beginning, which I didn’t have before.
(Your picture was not posted)
