What can I say? Some of you may know me from alt.sewing, but I just got addicted to patchwork and quilting. Kate XXXXXX (Hi Kate!) recommended this group before, so now that I'm an official junkie I thought I might join you.
What have I done so far? Currently I'm working on my first project which I started during a workshop held by a nice lady where I bought some notions for my wedding dress. She's got a marvelous choice of patchwork fabrics and I got curious. I'm working on a little stool, 45 cm cubic, the pattern is log cabin, two blacks, a grey and red for the center.
However, since I didn't have a proper ruler I went to another charming little patchwork store in another town and found what I sought, plus, you might have guessed, a little assorted stash of what you might call fat quarters, for a bedspread for DD. I also asked the very helpful lady about a really good book on quilting and she handed me something by Mary Clayton which is more like an encyclopedia and holds all kinds of patterns and techniques - highly addictive stuff. (BTW, if you got any suggestions literaturewise, I'd be more than happy to hear them).
What really took my fancy is something Japanese, a thing you might translate with 'two circle technique'. I think I'll make a bedspread/additional cover for my mom's bed in that, and I already started planning measurements. However, I hit a little snag when it came to chosing fabrics, and I remembered having read something about EQ 7 here (been lurking for a while, though not too attentively) and thought I might like something like that. Any comments on that? I know that Kate has a programm from Wild Ginger for making dresses and stuff, and it worked miracles for my wedding dress (or was that just Kate? ;-)) Would you recommend some investment like that?
Well, I'm sure there'll be loads more questions I'll want to ask you as I dive deeper into the zen-like world of quilting, but for now, this is it... Have a nice weekend,
U.