the red zigzag

13 October, 2009
books, quilts

I’m a bit in love with quilting onto blankets.  It’s such a nifty, time saving, warm-making, thrifty approach to my quilting.  I bought a pair of these Laconia blankets on ebay - they’re a lovely rosy and aqua check and so warm and soft.  And no quilt to stitch onto them.  Thus - the red zigzag.

on-the-bed

The blankets arrived at the same time as a gorgeous package of Jane Sassaman fabric - my goodness, how lovely is her Prairie Gothic range.

butterfly

All those moths …

spiders

And even better - spiders!

border-on-a-blanket

I chain pieced the blocks, lined them all up on Mum’s bed, sewed them into rows and then … stitched each row onto a blanket, foundation piecing style.  Ooooh it was immensely satisfying.  I cut, pieced and stitched onto the blanket the whole quilt in one evening.  Now I’m quilting the zigzags - with a lovely King Tut thread.  Gee, I do like how the King Tut stitches lay beautifully proud upon the fabric.  And I’m even quite liking the variegation of colour.  I can’t imagine ever stitching in thread that switches from purple to orange to green to pink to blue etc.  But this kind of variation is almost my cup of tea.  (I used the light green variegated King Tut on my picnic rug and it is *definitely* my cup of tea).

so-warm

I know I shall love snuggling under this with my little Boot when next winter comes, tea at my side, book in my hand (it will probably still be The Children’s Book - oh my goodness, how fuddled have I become over the years - I read Possession in a week when I was a lazy university student) delighting in the spiders as they wink creepily at me from amongst the red zigzags.  Abby thinks we should put it on the guest bed to frighten them, Little Miss Muffet style.

Back to the quilting machine …

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