textile dreams – fibery wake up

Assembling a quilt is always like building a huge puzzle. Seeing the whole top in one place for the first time is always an exciting moment for me. My quilt went from a small start to this:

and finally to this:

That’s all the pieces in one place for the very first time. Now I only need to sew that mess together, and getting all the points to match won’t get easier the longer the seams get. But I think I have a fighting chance to finish this quilt in time, after I had to buy more of the blue fabric for the second time last week. There’s a lot of that fabric in that quilt now.

I’ve been hiding behind a couple of book reviews lately because there wasn’t much to show, really. Remember this? Those tiny triangles (and all their siblings) have since been transformed and are now cluttering up my work table:

Oh wait, that’s not all of them! Some of those triangles have already been reassembled again and are now looking like there could be a finished quilt in their future:

The background is what goes for a “design wall” around here. Here’s what I do when I need a lot of vertical space to assemble my quilt, since I have too many bookcases (hmm, not really, one can’t have too many of those ) and not enough empty wall-space:

I take a flannell sheet (the only one I own, and exclusively for that purpose) and tuck one end under the heavy boxes (the ones with the dots) on top of my bookshelf. Instant design wall, and as an added bonus you can’t see the mess behind the sheet anymore.

So, back to sewing then, since there’s a deadline involved with this quilt.