Wednesday, August 14, 2013

My Little Quilting Apprentice

As mentioned in my last post, I made a patchwork quilt as a (belated) wedding gift for a couple friends. To start, I just cut out a ton of fabric squares. For big undertakings like this, I often like to work on the floor, which aroused the interest of my cat Neeti.

Neeti helps with the tedious square cutting process

I had a bunch of light blue fabric, which I used as the sort of "base," i.e. every other square. For the rest, I used squares from random fabric scraps that I had accumulated and tried to arrange them in a pretty pattern. When I was laying out all the squares on the ground to figure out the pattern, Neeti came over to investigate and see if she could lend a paw.

Taking stock of the plans

I eventually decided on a rainbow-ombre pattern, fading from green to blue on one side, and then picking up the blue and fading through purple and pink to red on the other. While I was pleased with this plan, Neeti remained unconvinced.

Taking matters into her own paws

Luckily, we eventually reached agreement!

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