Almost a month has gone by since I last posted. Not because I have lost interest but simply because I have been having such an incredible time working at Dot’s Quilts. It feels alot longer than a month ago that I started working for Dorothy. I have learnt a whole lot of new things about quilting and I will continue to eagerly learn.
What have I been doing at Dot’s Quilts ? It is hard to know where to start so I thought the best way to convey what I have been doing is to put it in pictures. However there are more photos on my mobile but I have mislaid that data cable for download onto my laptop.
2 quilts which we put together in a morning made up of squares painted by children
The front of a quilt made up of Amy Butler fabrics
'Amy's' quilt with the border attached
The next pictures are of my current favourite. This is actually the backing for the ‘Amy’ quilt. I started this quilt piecing feeling very uninspired. I could not ‘feel’ the quilt and how to piece it together until Dorothy showed me ideas from her collection of patterns on the PC. When I saw pattern of Amy Butler’s, it all fell into place for me. I love the colours of this quilt. This quilt still needs to be quilted which Dorothy will do over the holidays on her new quilting frame. It is roughly around 80 x 90 inches in size.
Close up of the fabrics
Half of the quilt
I will take more photos of the finished quilt this week before we close for Christmas.
I cannot imagine myself going back to office work and I really hope that I will never have to do so again. I enjoy my days sewing so much and I wish the days were longer that I was working in order for me to finish more quilts. I look forward to many more months of quilting if the first month is anything to gauge.
