In the post Another new piece, I showed you how far I had got with piecing some bought fabric togther.
And this is the finished piece:
I went back to the other hanging which I had got stuck on. I realised it was because I was trying to replicate the Paul Klee work too closely. Stepping away from it for a while was a good thing.
I continued to cut up fabric and stitch the fabrics fairly randomly together.
I made some strips narrower and some wider than the original 6 inch strips.
I sewed some of the strips together and kept making extra bits. I made the rust coloured strip at the top narrower.
I sewed all the strips together and trimmed the whole thing.
It's ready for the wadding and the backing. I haven't decided whether to bond the layers together and then add the binding, or use a technique called stitch-in-the-ditch to quilt it together. Stitch-in-the-ditch involves machining where the seams join. I would only do it in the verticals. There are far too many horoizontal seams! However I've never done it before so I'm a bit wary.
Thanks for joining me today
Bernice
