Friday, April 15, 2011

Mountains Beyond Mountains (with apologies for harsh lighting conditions)


Sewing has been on the backburner over here lately, owing to my incredibly hectic work schedule, but I sewed the final seam on this quilt top yesterday during my lunch break, and I am JUST. SO. HAPPY with it.


When I finally stepped away from the completed top and stared at it spread across the living room sofa, I felt like I had just scaled a mountain. Which doesn't really seem to require much, if you've been watching the Discovery show Everest, where people with terrifyingly little climbing experience (or common sense) pay vast sums of money to scale the mountain with the help of 43 sherpas and a team of yaks.


But back to the quilt.


There are one thousand and thirty-five triangles in this behemoth, which measures an acceptable 73" square. Not as big as I'd like, but still a usable size. This quilt would definitely not win any quilt shows; there are three or four (or ten) areas where the points just didn't match up, but the Quilt Police don't live near me, so I think I'll be okay.


Quilting, as always, is stalled...this time because the backing fabric I bought from Fabric.com (in my last ever purchase from them as their customer service is abominable) just doesn't seem to be very high-quality, and I would hate to ruin a quilt I love so very much with a poor-quality backing fabric. I know it will destroy my machine to do this, but I really want to use Minky on the back...is that so bad?

Have a great weekend, everyone! I hope you'll all spend it sewing. I'm spending it making room in my sewing area for my new sewing table...

2 comments:

  1. I love it so much!! but for some reason this doesn't scream minky to me. could you get some more of the white for the back and binding?
    how do you think you'll quilt it?

    and pictures please! I want to see the table!!

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  2. Ohmygosh - I am so obsessed with the amazingness of this quilt top. It is a very significant achievement - you did a great job. I really can't wait to see it in person.

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