Some projects I am not planning, I am just starting them and see what happens. Honestly, many of my projects will start this way. I am not a big planner.
So I created this small 1×1 meter quilt.
Primarily I wanted to test the new flower die for my Accuquilt.
I applied them onto white fabric, nice with cotton thread and Paris stitch.
Nice.
No border around. Made from leftovers from Accuquilting. A lot of little squares.
Ok, lets do a little more. Lets do a white border around this, with green squares on the corners.
And then sun was shining, we had Saturday. I attached wadding and back side with lots of fixing pins. It was weather for hand-quilting.
I sat comfortably on our terace and quilted the appliques with small pink stitches.
And then the weather became worse. On Sunday it was „Indoor“ weather, means machine quilting weather.
I took my quilting pen – leachable. So they assured me in the Patchwork shop.
And I traced all the white border with the die and the pen and afterwards I quilted it with my machine.
It was the first time I decorated such a large area with machine pattern.
At the end I added heart motifs to the 4 inner corners.
Alles jeweils mit Bleistift vorgezeichnet.
Finally I straightened the edge and bordered it with cotton bias tape.
Now I had to wash it to remove the pen lines. On Monday afternoon I gave the quilt to the washing machine at 30° Celsius.
Looking forward to my new quilt I looked at the wet piece:
Oh my god!!!
ALL drawing was still there.
Repeated it with 40°C and ox-gall soap.
Still there!
Really?
With frustration I did a lats round at 75°C. At least the drawing turned pale a bit. So I put it into the dryer.
What a surprise, nearly all lines were gone.
There are some thinner lines left in the corners, maybe they will be bleached in the sun.
BTW, I started on Friday, so it was a real Pentecost event.
Plus a bicycle trip, gardening, tasty meals and fun with the family.
How was your weekend?
Liebe Grüße
Eure
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