This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. Dragon Princess continued to put up a fight. I’ve ripped out and sewn down the 16 dark purple and green strips. I spent time fretting over the orientation of my strips; I needed eight […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. Last week, I talked about picking the fabrics and filling blocks on the NotQuilt. This time, we’ll start filling in the grid. We already know that the center dark strip will be the pink […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. All of the pink butterfly strips are sewn down. That means moving on to filling out the empty spaces with more strips of fabric. Which will require us later in this post to take […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The next step in the NotQuilt design was to construct the Roman stripes. From the beginning, I wanted their orientation to alternate with each block, marching across the fashion face like a basket weave. […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. I finished sewing down the Dragon Princess grid. It makes a grid, I’ll say that. A very pink grid. A wide, large pink grid. It’s really pink. It doesn’t look like what I had […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. I spread Dragon Princess on the floor to check the placement for horizontal strips three and four. They will not be exactly 8½ inches apart. Fortunately, the Roman stripes will conceal the variances in […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. The topmost and bottommost horizontal rows are sewn down. Time to work something mathing on the NotQuilt! Dear Daughter and I pulled everything away in the living room. Dragon Princess was spread out on […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. Now that I have given up on any hope of a coherent, continuous pattern while making Dragon Princess, things are moving more smoothly. You get frustrated and angry when you think it can be […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. I began work on the Dragon Princess NotQuilt fashion face. What an awful experience it was. I understand completely why so many people buy packaged quilt kits or patterns with every last detail thought […]
This post is part of a series about sewing NotQuilts. If you’re unfamiliar with this method, The NotQuilt series begins here. Not all breaks are bad. Purely by accident, I discovered a way to solve the wavy edges problem. I have finished sewing dark pink fabric all the way around Dragon Princess. Two things happened. […]