I had the loveliest day recently. Judy
Newman of A Very Fine House came down to the Peninsula to run a class
on making her beautiful Museum Medallion quilt at
Treehouse Textiles. I had been looking forward to spending a day at
the Treehouse since it opened, and had my heart set on making Judy’s quilt
since I’d first seen it almost a year ago. The day lived up to all I had looked
forward to: the peaceful bush setting, a delicious morning tea and lunch and the
laughter and good company of other quilters.
In getting started on my Museum
Medallion quilt, I was keen to find a large floral for the wide border.
Thankfully I was eventually able to locate the one I’d had my eye on from an
old French General range, Maison de Garance. And after a trip to Amitie, I had
the second of my borders, a lovely slightly textured cotton/linen fabric, Etoffe
Imprevue Leaf Stripe by a Japanese designer Yoko Saito for Lecien.
I love a scrappy (not
too-co-ordinated) look, so it was fun to raid the shelves of both Amitie and the
Treehouse, as well as my humble stash, to come up with a shoebox full of fabrics for
piecing. No shortage now.
Off to a great start...
And going well, until ...
... the awful realisation that my medallion was taking on an undesirable wavy effect, you can see it in the photo below.In the hope that things might somehow all work out in the end, I continued on adding the triangle border. Unfortunately the problem only became worse, and so eventually I made the difficult but necessary decision to employ the one tool in every quilter's kit that none of us ever want to use - the unpicker!
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