Pick up the pieces
Try to join them again
So what if they don’t fit
…to make what it once was,
Try to join them again
And make something new
A mismatched piece is not the end
It is the whole that counts
Look at it from a distance
And see the threads running through
The seams may jumble and go askew
But don’t turn it around and look
There may still be some beauty
When it all come together
Don’t disregard this messy
Patchwork
After all, this is what we call Life!
My sewing machine is jammed. It is almost 4 years old, but one year of not using it and the humidity here probably led to this .
The pile of unfinished projects is so high that even Kippi does not
climb and perch on top. I start sorting
out the mess - I really need to tidy
this up. But the jammed machine – no
amount of cleaning and oiling seems to help.
Luckily I am able to get the phone number of a Sewing Machine Repair guy
who can come home and repair it. And he
does!
So my machine is back in action. The first thing I tackled was the pile of ‘To be Repaired’ stuff. Below that I found a quilt top which I had begun a long time back. It was too small to make anything usable. It also looked so dull and insipid now.
Nevertheless, maybe I could just complete it
and use it for the dogs. So I sorted out
the couple of messy boxes and pulled out all the similar coloured pieces of
fabric. It was a ‘Random Piecing’ quilt – so any size of
square or rectangular piece works. The rotary cutter was completely rusted,
thankfully the scissors were not! Did not put much effort into ironing the
pieces – I just wanted it to be done fast.
But as the quilt ‘grew’ to a reasonable size, I spread it on the floor to take a look – and hey, that did not look as bad as I thought!
I mulled over picking the right coloured border and finally settled on a white.
Now it looked even better. I decided the dogs could just have something else, this quilt could turn out into something worth using. Maybe a floor quilt – so I drove to the fabric shop and got some really thick casement material for the backing.
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A very simple Maze pattern to quilt the layers together
And with the help of some ‘Quilting Tutorials’ on Youtube, managed to give it almost perfectly Mitered Corners.
and here it is - the half finished
project finally completed!
