Quilting on Silk

On the schedule this month was a silk quilt a customer brought me.  Her request was that I quilt only the borders and sashings on this quilt, as she wants to embellish/stitch the blocks herself.  We chose to use Quilters Dream Wool batting for dimension, and she chose a King Tut variegated green for the border and a King Tut variegated salmon for the sashings.  Her choice for bobbin thread was a Sew Fine called Pumpkin.

After much hesitation and trepidation over quilting on silk, and with a little encouragement from friends, I loaded the quilt and began.   During our customer appointment, we had chosen the designs to use, so really all I had to do was quilt.   But, as any longarmer knows, quilting on silk brings it’s own set of hesitations with it.

I now know there is no reason to hesitate, silk, or at least Dupioni silk, quilts up beautifully and I am inspired to use some of my silks soon.
The border and corner:

Sashing:

Back of quilt:

Unfortunately there is no way to take a full picture of the entire quilt.  This quilt was the absolute maximum I can load onto my machine 105″ wide!

 

Bits and pieces

Bits and pieces of the new works:

 

Reading List

One of my favorite evening activities is to read.  And the house reflects that, there’s not a room in the house that doesn’t have books in it….not a single room.

But I’m not one of those read one book at a time people, no, I am a more eclectic reader.  I’ll read a few chapters of this book, skim some pages in another, later on pick up a different book and read a bit in it.  Somehow keeping each book clear in my mind and enjoying them all.

Unless of course I’ve picked up a really good novel and have a day off….then I can immerse myself totally in the book forgetting to eat or answer the phone, never thinking about e-mail or anything except the next sentence in the book.

Right now I don’t have a good novel (nor do I want to take the time off to savor it), so I’m reading several different books on several different subjects.  And while reading tonight I was struck by a quote from Shakespeare that was in one of the books.

The quote:  “There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”.  My reading for the evening came to a dead halt as I ponder that statement…..

Ah the joys of reading that leads to pondering………………

What are you currently reading?
My current reading list is in the sidebar………to be updated as I read……….