Wholecloth and Ostrich quilt

The dreadful wholecloth. As I've said before, I don't know why I bothered except it was good practice doing grid work. This is a preprinted Bernatex wholecloth and is very badly conceived. Why? Many reasons but a few are, there is not enough difference in scale between the grid and the designs, the centre portion is not framed or isolated in any why to give it prominence, ditto for the middle ring of ribbons ands flowers and then there is proportionately too little quilting in the outer border. This quilt despite it's creases looks far better in the carefully taken photo than it does in reality. (creases come from DH sitting on it (grin).) And that's without the problems of the gird work crossing single lines of flower stems.
You might guess by now that I'm not impressed....
This is DD's 2006 Ostrich quilt hanging where it was created for. The fabrics are almost all from Ikea in their Rosali range. It is rumored that these were designed by Cath Kidston or they might have been a rip off copy. Ikea didn't sell them for very long, they were dirt cheap and absolutely gorgeous and now sell for about 5 times their original price on Ebay. Unfortunately DH was with me the day I bought them so I was far more restrained than I should have been and I had to supplement it with some at the outrageous Ebay prices.

Wholecloth Quilt

Those of you who read my 'old' blog might remember this quilt in the design stage. Click on any of the photos to see the stitch.
For those of you who didn't, don't scroll down, just think about it's size.......
I can see now in the photo, I haven't removed all the water soluble thread, so it will need a soak in warmer water as it's the Superior Threads one which needs warm/hot to dissolve it.
Scroll down, if I have been successful, you will be surprised.











I drew the design directly onto the fabric (cotton batiste). I got a dirty burnt starch mark on it but was confident it would rinse out.

This was the back after I stitched the feathers.

And I can't resist playing with wetting it and watching the ink run. If you're wondering about the pens I use to mark, go back through the archives.

Now to do some 'googling' to find out how to bind it less than 1/8th of an inch.