Quilts!

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I love making quilts.

Love.

 Love.

Love.

Love.

Love.

So how did I forget to show you my finished knit-and-woven experiment quilt weeks ago? I don't know. But here it is:

I expected to have problems with the different stretching abilities of the two kinds of fabric (the colourful pieces are from my Dad's old cotton dress shirts and the black squares are from knit T-shirts), but I found them surprisingly forgiving. It probably helped that I sewed the seams on my serger instead of my regular (sadly broken) sewing machine.

(For the uninitiated, a serger is a fancy sewing machine that uses four spools of thread and makes the stretchable kind of stitching you'll see on the seams of your T-shirts.)


I did have trouble with the binding refusing to lie flat, but I think that was from my own imperfect cutting and not from the fabric.

So what did we learn from this project? That rules, like "don't mix knit and woven fabric," are made to be broken - in the name of creativity and thrift.