When I had the top my quilt, I Became The Woman I Kept To Myself laying on my studio floor it puckered in a couple of places. I kept ironing it and tugging at it, but a pucker here or there always showed up.
I know from experience that my quilts change as they go through the process of having a layer of batting and being sewn together and tacked.
I decided to trust that, hoping for a bit or magic to intervene, if that’s what it took.
So I was delighted, but not really surprised, when I had the front, back and batting sewn together, turned inside out and hanging from my ceiling to tack, that the quilt lay perfectly flat.
I didn’t even need to pin it as I usually do with my quilts before tying the yarn that holds the three layers together.
I used apple fabric for the backing, a suggestion of Eve in the Garden, which seemed to fit. And red yarn ( another nod to women) to tack it.
Tomorrow I will take a picture of the quilt on the barn. I want to get a photo of it hanging flat (it’s too long for my studio wall) so I can make it into a postcard.
I Became The Woman I Kept To Myself is sold and I will write more about that tomorrow.
I sewed this onto the back of the quilt to acknowledge Julia Alvarez’s poem, By Accident which the words for this quilt came from.
Maria – amazing and beautiful – the quilt is huge and dwarfs you!! Absolutely fascinating video – I love the way the quilt moves in response to you – it seems to have a life of it’s own!
Oh Thank you Peg, I love that too. You remind me how I always feel like it’s a dance between me and the quilts I make. I’m never still for long when I’m working on them, especially since I make them on my floor. Lots of up and down and moving around.