Quilting A Christmas Card
The whole fourth dimension that my mom was piecing the Christmas Tree carte du jour quilt, she in addition to I were discussing how to quilt it. We decided that nosotros wanted to quilt a garland of holly in addition to ivy inwards the broad blood-red border. For me, the commencement pace inwards quilting a novel pattern is ever to do it on newspaper earlier I fifty-fifty mean value virtually approaching the machine. I accept a huge long scroll of tracing newspaper that I similar to endure for practising my quilting designs. I practised the pattern below for a pair hours (the ikon is slightly grainy because tracing newspaper doesn't seem to similar beingness photographed!). Mom fifty-fifty brought me inwards or thence ivy from the garden thence I could effort in addition to re-create it to a greater extent than accurately! Then came the actual quilting! We loaded the quilt onto the frame, in addition to and then auditioned or thence threads to run into which ones nosotros ...