Backing and Tacking

When someone sends me a box of fabric, I look through it, then I wash it.  But sometimes, after that, it sits in my studio long enough to get musty.

So I wash it again.

After sewing together the backing for my Flying Free quilt, I washed it and hung it on the line to dry.  It was a good drying day, hot and breezy and it dried quickly.

Now the backing is on the quilt and the whole thing is hanging in my studio as I tack it with a rust colored yarn.