Workroom #110

Adding borders to quilt

My first quilt was finally finished in 2008. It was made from alternate blocks from a year long block of the month club at Grandma’s Attic. So it took me the whole year to get all the blocks. Then it took me another whole year to hand quilt it (not because I had a preference of hand quilting, I just didn’t know another way). So, although I didn’t actually pay attention to when I actually started this quilt, my best guess is September of 2006. All this explanation is to say that this quilt has been made awhile ago, relatively speaking.

The thing is, this quilt ended only being Queen sized. Unfortunately we have a King sized bed. The binding had worn through and needed to be replaced. I figured that since I was going to replace the binding anyways, I could also add borders to make the quilt larger. At first, I had sewn the borders to the front and started to add the back borders with the plan to add the batting between before then quilting the borders. That proved to be ridiculously difficult. I pulled the borders off and started over.

This time I quilted the border sandwiches one at a time, attaching them to the main quilt with a zigzag stitch. The border in the picture is the 4th and last one.

Dolly Dearest

If you’ve been around awhile, you have seen this project before. This project was started January 2019. The last time I actually worked on it was 7/6/22. Friend Daisy graciously offered to drive our group of shop-hoppers, so I decided to take this long ignored project to work on between stops. I knew that I was last doing a stretch of plain knitting. After doing a couple of rows, I checked the instructions, then measured, then realized I no longer had any idea where I was in the process. So, I did what I usually do and frogged all the way back to the beginning. I actually think this time looks better than the last time. 😉

Mermaid

This little cutey-to-be is from the Etsy store of PomsAndPosiesUS. She is made from “The Original Merbabies” pattern. I am not very experienced in crochet, but I have been really pleased with how easy this cute little dolly has been coming together. She will be extra cute with a head! 🙂

Scanning embroidery pattern books

These books of embroidery patterns were some that I found at an antique store at the same time that I found the McCall’s from 1970. The books are really pretty fragile with bits of the light cardboard covers flaking off. I don’t see a date on the Royal Society Hot Iron Embroidery transfers book No.3, but the images look 1920-ish. Then the Floral Embroidery Motifs for tracing or stamping is dated 1922. The designs are simple and sweet. I’m excited to scan them, to be able to share them with others.