off to Borderland Fabrics for chat and patch. I'm still working on my Jennie Rayment block - today I made a start to quilting it.
I've layered the block with cotton wadding (batting) and calico (muslin) and now I'll pin the layers together.
That's it pinned and ready to quilt.
The next decision is which thread to use. I love working with variegated thread, as they add extra visual interest to the work.
You can see which thread I chose, but you can't quite see that I have the free-motion foot on the machine (ok, I admit it, I forgot to take a photo of it!). I have also dropped the feed dogs, in order to do free motion quilting, also known as meander quilting, or vermicilli (or as one of my friends calls it - that very silly stitch!)
You can see that I have meandered all over this square - which will now have the folded flower stitched on to it.
This detail shows where I have quilted in the 'background' areas of the square - this makes these areas recede and the main parts of the pattern stand out.
This detail shows a slightly different meandering stitch. Now that the background has been quilted, little folded pieces will be inserted in the centre and the edges rolled and stitched.
Finally, I started work on the borders, quilting the centres of the flowers. Of course I would have done more if we didn't spend so much time chatting and laughing - and of course the obligatory pause for a cuppa. This afternoon we had a wonderful treat -scones baked by Norrie, the husband of the shop-owner Annette. These scones were so wonderful (possibly the best I have ever had) that I asked Norrie to marry me and make me scones forever more! (Malcolm says he doesn't mind as long as I share the scones with him!!) For non-Scottish readers, scone is pronounced to rhyme with gone.
Tomorrow we are heading east to St Abbs for a day out involving all things woolly, so come back tomorrow and I'll tell you all about it ....