Dear Liza,
Auntie Bridgett and I headed down to the Mill End Store in Milwaukie on Wednesday, to see if we could find fabric for your new quilt. The store is enormous, but most of what we needed were quilting cottons, and pretty close together.
We started with the background colors. A pattern called Shadowplay had just the right colors for the green and grey, and a nice variation. The blue in that collection was too bright, so we found a flat medium blue. To make it more interesting, I’m planning on doing lots of embroidery to give texture and shading.
After two hours, two energy bars and lots of looking, comparing, and deciding, we had our fabrics, as well as a fabric marking pen, some thread, and supplementary embroidery floss.
Fabric veteran Sally gave us lots of advice on how much yardage we would need. She also told us her rule: We need to bring the finished quilt back to visit. I warned her it may be a while!
When we got home, we had a well-deserved lunch and I got all the fabric pre-washed and pressed.
And this morning, with help from Molly and Moxie, I got the base layer pieces cut and laid out. Once my order of Pellon 805 (known to its friends as Wonder Under) comes in, I’ll give them their nice curvy shapes and join them up.
In the meantime, I’ve got a couple of things I need to figure out.
Love,
Grandma Judy
