A New Quilt

So I made a quilt.
 

The enterprise has been in grievous disarray for some years now, during which the quilting room gradually filled with crap and detritus and great drifting dunes of litter and dust.  During that time, I would occasionally decide that it was time to get fired back up, and launch into cleaning the room, or taking an inventory of unfinished projects, or otherwise "getting ready."  Heavens, in Summer 2016, I apparently decided to muck out the blog!  

What I found in all of these self-conscious rebirths was that the startup tasks were so daunting, my determination never lasted to the point when I would do much sewing together of cloth.  A machine that was almost always giving me mechanical problems didn't help any.

Early this fall, I started thinking about sewing scraps of blue together.  But this time, with no preamble of cleaning the room or making a formal design, I just found a container of blue scraps, pushed a heap of rubble off of a folding chair, turned on the machine, and started sewing.  That proved to be enough fun that eventually it seemed worth taking on a new challenge, clearing off the ironing board.  By the time that the sewing machine's mechanical problems rendered it unusable again, I had enough momentum to hie me to the repair shop.  When it was clear that we had passed the point of repairs, I coughed up the cash for a new machine.  Maybe I'll tell you that story someday.

I had to buy a new iron, too.

Eventually, I shaped my little blue patches into strips, made some vertical light-light strips to give the thing some structure (and, to be honest, for ease of assembly), and by gum I finished it.

I've been working on some old projects too.  The room, though not what you'd call "tidy," has become... shall we say... navigable.   Who knows, maybe someday I'll even attend to my quilt blog!

The Specs

Title: none 

Serial Number: Hmm... actually the records are also in a bit of disarray currently.

Dimensions: I'm... not sure.  I'm sure there's a tape measure around.

Batting: An grubby old electric blanket.  Before using it, I had to rip out all of the wires and elements, which was good fun.

Backing: Pieced horizontal strips of scrap flannel. 

Quilting: Horizontal straight lines.

Begun: August 2019

Finished: October 2019

Intended Use/Display: Blanket.

Provenance: I'm keeping it myself.

You can see that the angle of the back is a few degrees
off of true.  Aligning fronts and backs is not
something of which I have a knack.