Last summer, as I was finishing up making a dress, Billy declared he wanted to make a quilt. It was a convenient time to help him start, as I already had my sewing basket out, and had recently re-organized all of my fabrics, scraps, and projects. I had cut many denim quilt blocks from old [...]
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Billy’s Quilt, or, Sewing with My Boy
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**My newest projects...learning copywriting skills; piecing a reversable quilt for my daughter; braintanning a deer hide. **Two historical figures I respect…Patrick Henry, Abraham Lincoln. **An unusual skill I possess…making cheese from goat milk. I make several kinds (which require no special inoculations), and have several more I would like to try. **My favorite person…my husband. Incidentally, I assumed since Junior High that I would marry a bareback bronc rider, and have three sons with him. Instead, I got snagged by a construction foreman, and have one son, one daughter, and four other children who beat me to God’s side. **I graduated from the Long Ridge Writers Group correspondence course, “Breaking Into Print,” and look forward to their novel course...just for fun. **A recent great book I read - Kristin Lavransdatter II - The Mistress of Husaby (centers on a Norwegian family in the 1300's).Tyger’s Quilt – Remaining Steps
1) Embroider where desired on pictures 2) Embroider with fancy stitching around patches (look up stitches in blue sewing book) 3) Embroider with fancy stitching at some of denim seams 4) Put together front and back, with yellow sheet center 5) Tie off prettily with full strands of embroidery floss
