A sewing afternoon

 I was able to sit down and sew in my craft room for  a couple of hours yesterday, although it is far cooler downstairs in the kitchen which sits at the back of the house and is protected from the sun by having the old stables (utility and hall) in front of it.  The big window of my sewing room faces due South and it gets hot up there.  I was careful and sewed some good blocks, whilst listening to Diana Gabaldon's "Voyager", which I had downloaded this week after Audible's offer of 3 mths at 99p a month offered temptation I succumbed too.  I don't mind paying that price - £8 off each month.

Lizzy D from Gone to the Beach asked to see my Baltimore Quilt border so I will oblige.  Apologies to those who aren't quiltmakers.  I began this at my patchwork class in the run up to Covid.  I have been working very sporadically on quilting the borders since then - not helped by losing one of the hand-quilted borders in the move, and also the spare fabric. (Would you believe I found the spare fabric only last week?  Too Late the maiden cried . . . ) I had to match as best I could, but of course it isn't perfect.  I am hand-quilting the final long border at the moment.  

Sorry it looks a bit washed out because of the strong sunlight.  The old hexagon quilt is to catch the cat hairs . . .

Hand appliqued design, with tiny blanket stitches to fasten it in place.

As you can see, I was able to hand quilt as I went along, because there were different components to the quilt.  I just machine stitched these borders together as I went.

The final long strip (70") which I work on in the evenings as I watch tv.  Very soothing.

I will finally trim and machine stitch it all together and as the back looks a little messy with the strips sewn, I may put an extra backing over before edging.  I'll see how it looks.  

Well, it's grey and rainy this morning, and 19 deg. C and I can cope with that and shouldn't need to water round as mightily today.

Enjoy your weekend, all.