Tools of Trade

Whilst sewing my curved log cabin blocks over the last 9 months thought was given each month as to how I was going to quilt this at the end but as no idea came to mind  this decision was put off until this week.    My frixon pen, iron and I have had a good workout trying to find a quilt design that I was happy with.   After much drawing and rubbing out with the iron and consulting Pinterest I found what I thought was the way to go.   Then came the dilemma that I could not find a plate or dish with a big enough arc to draw the design and just when I thought back to the drawing board I found a wooden lid that did the job so here are my tools of trade that were used to draw the design.

The wooden lid was used to draw the largest arc and the plates and cup used to draw the smaller arcs with the ruler to measure 1 1/2" inches between them.   This is how it now looks all drawn up and ready to go.

Sitting under the needle waiting patiently to be quilted.    I plan on using coloured thread matching each block and changing to white thread where each blocks meets in the centre.   Sounds good to me and hopefully will look good when finished.  

The plan is to quilt a coloured block each day so that will take 9 days if all goes well then comes the binding and tidying up.   

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