This morning I actually slept in. Yay! When I did wake up at 7:30am, I realized that today my daughter and I had dentist appointments. Well there goes a good chunk of our morning. As I was left with only a hour to myself before we had to go, I decided to sort through a box of silk material I had been given. It's a fair size box of silk material that I do not know what to do with.
In the box there are many different colours/patterns of silk fabric and more than half of it, probably 3/4s of the box is half square triangles. The pile that I took out this morning is the brightest of the bunch. Within these piles there are three different fabric patterns.
I found out that when working with silk in a quilt, it is always best to use interfacing. This helps to stabilize the silk and make it easier to work with. There is definitely going to be a need for mega patience while working with this. Just trying to lay the pieces onto the facing was a bit tricky.
Once I stabilized the silk I trimmed them all down to a consistent size. The person who cut these, used scissors and so with the nature of silk the cuts were quite wavy. Now they are trimmed and ready to use. I just don't know yet what I want to do with them.
Do I want to keep the colour families different for each there own quilt, or do I want to combined them together to make a larger quilt. I plan to go online and see if I can find some patterns that appeal to me. If I find nothing, I will resort to the pattern Scrap Triangles page 78 of For the Weekend Quilter, edited by Rosemary Wilkinson.
I've had this book for quite some time now. I've made a quilt out of it already. There are even some quilts in this book that are made of silk. The one I chose isn't, but the one I made before was, though the one I made I did out of cotton. The pieces in the quilts are a bit larger, so that you could at least finish the top in a weekend. There are some basic patterns that would also be good for a beginner.
But for now I will put things away as I still have some things to clean up first, like finishing the Pleated Log Cabin quilt. Today after the dentist and driving my daughter to work, I was working on the label for it. Each line that is written take almost an hour to stitch up, so as of now I finished three rows and have another eleven hours work on it. I have approx. five hours of binding to do on the quilt itself. Maybe I will work on the binding while we watch a movie tonight.
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