My Other Obsession

Here is my other obsession: quilting. I have been an avid quilter for the past twenty years. This past week I have been working on this wall hanging from Louisa L. Smith's book Strips 'n Curves. I'm just crazy about this woman! She was on Alex Anderson and Ricky Tim's The Quilt Show recently. I followed the instructions for one of her simpler patterns. You create strata, her term for the strips of inch and a half fabrics sewn together, then cut them out in either an L shape or a quarter circle.

Piecing was relatively easy, which was a surprise. The curves are fairly gentle and you only sew a strata section to a piece of solid fabric, for the most part. I was a bit heavy-handed with the iron and stretched some of those bias edges more than I should, which caused some distortion. I have lots of leftovers to play with. Still need to layer the quilt and do the quilting. I will probably just do straight line quilting on my sewing machine, right down the center of each strip.

My children are coming home from college in a couple of days so I have had to move my dollhouse supplies out of my daughter's room. Once they are home and now that the piecing is done on my wallhanging, I will get back to my beach shack.