While my consultant and I try to figure out where this week's pre-loaded WeHo entries have vanished to, how about a post that was going to go up week after next to fill space?
Here's what the double Irish chain block looks like when executed in two types of mudcloth and white corduroy (from the Vintage Mom Cloth stash). Also, I reversed the traditional dark/light approach:
Blocks created out of one-inch squares, my preferred size. No-prize if you can spot the huge, glaring error! Any quilter familiar with this block will spot it in seconds. Other people either don't notice or think it was a 'creative decision'.
Even though it was done on the machine it took about 1.5 months to finish. This shot was taken after the piece had been squared off and before I started the long hell of binding. This is not a blanket or anything, but the front panel for a project I call The Needlessly Complex Skirt. There are 28 blocks for the front panel, 32 for the back. Who says quilt blocks can only be used for blankets? That's just stupid. I mean, how many blankets does one person need?
Piled on the table are some of the blocks for the back panel. I can't make the rest of them until I find more mudcloth close in color and pattern to the dark brown. (I ran out for reasons I can't quite remember right now.) A downside to working with mudcloth is each piece is individually crafted, so when it's gone you can't just dash to the garment district and pull more from the bolt. I've put the alert out to my two primary crack dealers, so I'm confident something will turn up eventually. I hope it is sooner than later.
This shot might give you an idea of why I prefer to quilt by hand, even though it takes much longer:
Or not, if you don't quilt. Trust me, it's a pain in the ass to do the actual quilting on the machine. Even though this piece has no batting, it's just the top and the backing, it's still difficult to fiddle it through the machine.
No Glue Gun Girl post is complete without shot of Cuddle Kitty in the way: