Gypsy Wife

Slowly working on Section 9 presently.

I had to change out two of the strips which follow down the

length of the quilt, just breaking for blocks here and there.

The strips on the RH side above were the originals but I wasn't

happy with how they looked, I kept the two narrow middle strips

but added different fabrics either side along

with another strip element and a bordered

pinwheel block directly below.

It's really important to keep in mind which fabrics are

going to hit each other, something you think will work well

doesn't when you actually get the pieces on the wall.

You can see some of the top part of the quilt below,

I don't stitch the individual elements together until I have everything

for that particular section up on the wall, so you'll be seeing threads and

pieces which need trimming.

Taking me away from the machine were two new books

as different as chalk and cheese, as you can

see from the covers,  but both beautifully presented.

I'm setting aside some time to sit and read through the

Judy Newman book, or a good part of it, this weekend.

Maureen