How exciting is this!!! The photos she has provided are place above. Hopefully I have placed in the right order. I've included her message to me below with very little editing.....just any personal notes. I hope you enjoy this as much as I have. Stay tuned. I may not post the next steps for a few days. I know you will enjoy her personal thoughts and writing. She is awsome!
Hi Cheri,
1. I
bought the fabrics --- two of your panels of animal farm and 1.5 yards of
each RK gray, burgundy, and navy blue fabric (always buy a little more than
what they tell you for those unfortunate oops). I had to order the fabric from
three different places and the panels from a fourth place but it was worth it.
3. Cut,
cut, cut --- quilting is all about taking perfectly, beautiful fabrics and
cutting them up sometimes to a million pieces just to put them back together
again! This process took me all day. They say you should measure twice and cut
once. For me, I have learned to measure four times and then cut once--- once
you make a mistake in cutting is over and you will need to buy more fabric for
your mistake.
4. Iron,
iron, iron --- must iron all fabric before cutting and what I use is a little
Niagara starch to get a crisp, flat fabric to cut. The hardest and longest job
was cutting the individual frames of the animals. When they say fuzzy cut it,
it means you figure out how much of the frame you want to show in your quilt,
but must stay within the measurements given to you for cutting. You also have
to factor in the 1/4" on each side that you will be taking in as a seam
when sewing pieces together. So while they look wonky when you finish cutting
them, you hope you did it right so only the animal/background shows and not the
black borders surrounding each frame when you sew it. A lot of the frame had to
be cut down from 11"X10" frames to 9.5" squares--- but it worked
out nicely.
5.
Sew, sew, sew --- now that everything has been
cut according to the instructions from the pattern and is seating in my sewing
basket, I am ready to go over to my sewing machine for the real fun!
As I start to put the quilt together, I will be sending you
pictures of the progress. Unfortunately, I may take a couple of weeks in
sewing, since I may need to take a trip to see my son who is in college and of
course there is always other things that get in the way of me having fun. I
hope it won't be too long in finishing the top of the quilt and then there will
be one big step after that and one smaller second/final step in totally
completing the quilt.
Warm wishes,
Miriam
