quilt plans

I took a break from the quilting to make a bunch of curtains for a friend of mine.  Pam, who I went to Mexico with, just bought a house somewhere out in Texas.  It’s like a big one-room affair with 50 X 60 inch windows all around,  maybe 15-20 of them (?).  She got a bunch of heavy sheets in various colors, mostly light blue, and we went to SAS fabrics, found a whole roll of wide lace for $5.00 and a big pile of grey and blue t-shirt material (by the pound)….

we folded the top hem over, put lace on the stitch-line and made two tubes, the lower one for the rod, the upper one for a self-ruffle, the lace on the seams stiffens it a little so the top hem on the sheet hangs a little off the fabric, looks real nice on a rod.  So I took my break to sew those up.  I put tubes in top and bottom of 40 inch lengths of the grey/blu knit so she can stretch it on top and bottom spring rods inside the window casings for insulation and privacy.

I was struck by the realization that the design time was equally as important as the execution.  We carefully designed and ended up with a curtain that we had not imagined going into it.  It stitched up with simplicity and clean lines.

Same goes for a quilt, although I’m a little more relaxed about design than most quilters I know.

On this one, I just started making pineapples out of green.  That was the whole design at first.  I went too far and had to take a whole row off, It was just too big, and more sqaure than I liked.

so now the center part is just the right size, I am now making the edges more straight, next I’ll add a ruffle, because if I don’t get wild soon, I will have a traditional quilt on my hands.  I always get a little wild and add lace, button, ruffles, whatever.  

When I get the ruffle and next border on, I will try to remember to put a pic up here.

I had to stop and think about it for a couple of days, but now have a definite plan for the next couple of steps.