If you checked Silent45 in January you read about how I've started working on a quilt as a way of keeping my hands busy during the long, nasty, crusty, snowy, gray, boring, Michigan winter. Not that I don't love Michigan winter....okay I hate Michigan winter.
For a rather uninteresting [to anyone but me, I'm sure] update on Da Quilt, read on.
I finished sewing the border on El Quilto and ironed all my dainty lil 1/4" seams on the back side.
I pinned the top, batting and muslin backing together in preparation for Das Quilt 2010.
Then I made my quilting templates. This is most definitely my own method, I'm not sure how real quilters do it. But I wanted a version of these patterns I found in an old quilting pattern book. So I traced the tiny patterns out, step one.
NOTE: I have 2 patterns. These pics interchange patterns cuz I wasn't really dedicated to taking pics while I worked through this. Deal.
I traced it on quadrille paper so it'd be easy to enlarge.
Next I straight up took a photo of the image, bluetoothed it to my computer and opened it in paint. DON'T QUESTION MY METHODS! I stretched the image to 8"x 8" to fit my quilt squares and inverted the color (read: not 'colour') to make it easier to trace.
I cut out the shapes and traced them onto manilla cardboard to make a sturdier stencil. Et voila:
Last Step: Trace onto a quilt square and quilt to the batting and back.
One square down, 19 to go. Stay tuned!
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