I made a backing for the darting fish quilt yesterday. It has been hanging on the design wall for a long time waiting for its backing. To get to it, I had to take the spool quilt off the display stand. I may have have said some strong words due to the combination of a light display stand and a heavy quilt. Buddy told me its inappropriate to weight-shame quilts, so I weighed it and discovered it only weighs 8 pounds. Apparently, I'm a weakling.
Here's the backing I made for the quilt. Who doesn't love swimming rats and girls named Alice in distress. What I don't love is the green hue next to the blue. What was I thinking?
Next, I got out the fat fish quilt top hoping it might be a better match for the Tula and Alice quilt back. But it looks like its missing half of the quilt. It's so tiny. Did I run out of backing fabric or is their another half of the quilt somewhere.
Clearly, I am living too much in the past. Finishing quilts is over-rated and I am inclined to go back to less stressful activities like starting new quilts.
4 comments:
Starting new quilts is always a good rush. However, yours are so wonderful, that finishing would be a high also.
I'm pretty sure that even thinking about finishing a quilt means you get to start another quilt. There may be a mistake in my math, but I'm not going back to check.
Lol...I love that thought!
Chuckling over gayle's "quilt math".
The last time I made a quilt I feared was too heavy (hush, Buddy), it turned out to be quite comfortable to sleep under. It weighed in (before binding) at 7.7 pounds. Deets here: https://cbottsprojects.blogspot.com/2020/01/behemoth.html
Carolyn
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