Yes, Houston we have completion!
This has sat in draft form on my computer for ages so I thought I better post it quick just in case it evaporates and ends up in the virtual ether.
Yes, finally after years and years of work I have completed my afghan-come-quilt project. Little did I know all those years ago when I began this small project how long and tortuous a road it would be to get the bugger done!
The afghan material was woven in such a way that it was amenable to being cross stitched on. However due to the weave each cross stitch had to be completed before beginning the next and that meant I couldn’t work up a head of steam and speed along.
The border is alternating stitched and not stitched squares. I stitched 13 squares in the border using my own design created from elements in the main panels. Each border square used two different colour combinations from the main panels.
Four panels in the finished piece included information about my family, including our names plus the date embroidered. The other panels are all based on quilt patters. Two examples are shown above. They are, on the left, Lone Star, and on the right, Log Cabin. I used a chart by Canterbury Designs called, Quilts In A Day (Or Two), designed by Joyce B. Drenth.
The backing fabric is a patchwork pattern and helps protect the skin from the rough fabric that is the afghan. Quilting is achieved through ties using the cotton thread that I stiched with.
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August 16th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Now I do like this! Very impressed that you managed to do cross stitch on that material, and get it looking so neat. I’m particularly taken by the pattern on the right-hand square, the shadow effect in the grey areas is very striking.
August 16th, 2006 at 5:29 pm
It drove me bonkers, I can tell you!!!!!!! Which is why it has taken me so many years to finish it. Now I have a quilt I’ve been working on since the mid 1990s that I’d like to complete. I don’t hold out too much hope of finishing any time soon as people keep on getting married and having babies. Why don’t they stop and let me catch up with the present making?