finally some more sewing

I had a fun long weekend: uprooting some willows, trampoline jumping - I don't remember ever having been so dizzy, I guess I'm too old for somersaults ...

I have a visitor for the book fair here and my plan to make use of the few opportunities to sleep in went out of the window. Getting up at 6am is early  for me, but hey I sat down and wrote a to do list:

sorry it's in German

 Of course then I went to my rack and pulled the first thing that caught my attention - long time UFOs that need backings and I pieced a back - which is nowhere on the list. (Am I good at lists or am I good?)

Yeah - true work in progress pictures - no cleaning up around the edges, no ironing or straightening out. I only needed the top to take some rough measurements for the backing. It's 180x180 cm (that's 70 inch square) So my usual 150cm backing was too small and I had to do something - like add in a strip.

So now my quilt will have a sunny side for sunny days and an umbrella back for rainy days - I really love those umbrellas, now I wish mom would have bought more than just 3m

The rest on the list ... that I have pictures of ... and things I have pictures of that are not on the list but should be there

       

       

Löni

my love for unpieced backs

Yeah well all who have been reading my ramblings for a while know I usually use unpieced backs which is not really a problem as long as my quilts aren't wider than 59" (150cm) and even if I go bigger it only makes the selection smaller but I can easily go up to 110" (280cm). And funnily even though I measure my blocks and sashing and everything in inch - as soon as it comes to measureing the whole thing I take out my metric tools - I still can't think in inch when anything get's bigger than 12" and even then I my "idea" of how big the thing is rarely the actual size [12 inch are damn huge]. Same as I still sometimes catch myself at converting the €uros to the old curency - yeah the inch centimetre thing will take some more years.

So yeah I don't use the fabrics from the front in the back as I never have enough for the front pattern and a complete back. So I go hunting looking for the perfect backing fabrics and sometimes I find something - like the one on the left. I saw it, I bought it, now I'm basting it.

Yeah I know I'm lazy and I admit it. I really like being lazy sometimes.

Leo

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