Growing up going to a Waldorf School and having a grandmother who owned a boutique and made everything beautiful you can imagine has inevitably resulted in my becoming infected with the hand-work bug! I remember tackling a hexagonal quilting project with Ouma a a little girl but I don't remember much about it and never saw a finished project (I think Ouma was protecting me against major disappointment!!!)
I recently saw the most divine quilt in a home magazine... I've seen a few in some stores too but lets just say that my credit card would melt beyond recognition even after a great month :-) Got me thinking and inspired though... I headed out the next morning into retail bliss - a fabric shop in Salt River and bought the most gorgeous coloured Taffeta, some crushed and some normal.
Here's where I'm at so far:
Each piece of fabric was ironed and pinned to a paper template before being hand stitches into rows. You'll never believe how many pins it took to make a king sized quilt! (I headed back to the haberdashery store at least 4 times to restock and I was never stingy!)
Once the blocks were all sewn together I cut a piece of backing (lining) and batting (the stuffing part). Next task is to sew the three layers together and then sew around each block. The outside edges can be done on my machine but the quilt is too big to all fit through the machine... I guess it'll stay truly hand-made :-)
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