Don’t you LOVE hand work? It is so portable! Today I’m going to show you how I prepare my piecing for travel.
First, I lay out my design on the design wall.
Layout your design.
Next I pick up one row at a time starting with bottom, being careful to keep the shapes the way I’ll be sewing them.
Knot a long piece of quilting thread onto a needle and push up through the row of pieces from the bottom.
Come up from the bottom and back stitch at the end of the row.
Keep adding rows, backstitching as you go. You’ll have a long “string” of patches.
This is a WHOLE quilt top!
I backstitch at the end so the pieces won’t fall out. Now I’m ready to fold this string up in my block keeper and away I go. The really neat thing is because I was careful when I picked up the pieces, the first pieces will be the first row. I just stitch until I get to another back stitch and I know I’m done with that row.
Now isn’t that a great TIP!
Talking about tips, be sure to sign up for the NEW “Stitching with Cindy Blackberg” face book group. You can share your pictures of your current Cindy projects with everyone in the new closed group. A new contest is coming soon on this group page “Show us your Sewing Rooms!” (With a really neat prizes!)
Here is the link to the page:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/StitchingWithCindyBlackberg/
Until next time,
Happy Stitching! (and Prepping)