Wash Day

I made this throw from 16 leftover Twisted Sisters blocks made from Three Cats fabrics and added a border using pieced offcuts but I still had some fabric left so I kept on going which made it look rather odd. I added some ties in the outer borders using Shetland wool and show the before and after pictures. A hot wash felted them up into pleasing bobbles which shouldn't work loose. I'll now add buttons (red) and some applique. Gosh  - am I actually embellishing?? A rather dirty word in my quilty lexicon. No I'm securing the layers!

More Twisted Sisters

Yesterday I got back in my sewing room, free again after the Christmas visitors and a chance for yet one more arrangement of the furniture. It's working quite well. After making my full size Twisted Sisters top I had 16 blocks left and I'm now using up the rest of the fabric adding borders. The trimmings from cutting the Sisters units have been used for the pointy borders. As this quilt has no particular purpose apart from using up fabric I'm just playing around and as happy as not to see the odd upturned point. I've added more top and bottom as I want to end up with an oblong not a square.

Twisted Sisters Top Finished

Here is my completed Twisted Sisters top showing a detail of the border and corner. The corner is deliberately big so I can square off the corner properley once quilted. It's quite big and I'm thinking about how to quilt it or perhaps have it quilted.
I still have a smaller piece 4 blocks by 4 that I shall add my remaining three cats fabric to till it's all gone in an effort to keep the scrap pile down.