Me and the quilt have been sounding each other out for some weeks now.
I have been trying various things on the quilt top. Various threads. Various directions. None of them felt or looked quite right. Whatever feeling I followed, the stitch lines just seemed wrong. Stitching the quilt top seemed to work against the wonky lines of the panels, against the stripes of the t-shirts. I felt I was losing Belle’s clothes in the stitches.
But then I tried tying the corners of the panels with sock yarn, so that the tie-ends showed on the quilt back.
This looked right. Sort of sounded right too. Like gracenotes rather than interference.
So I’ve sounded this quilt out now. It is tied, and trimmed, and I have the binding ready. It will be finished this weekend. A celebratory picnic is planned.
till then . . .
KDD & Co 
That quiet gracenote stitch is the one – well done for persevering – changing the subject slightly – did you ever read the book Gracenotes? up until then i din’t know what it meant but the book just changed my perspective on so much – for someone who likes to gab a lot it made me learn to shut up and listen to what isn’t being said – i am still learning but I do try. good luck with the quilt – it’s turning into something really special.
Lizzi
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knits are so different, they need to move. good solution.
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Oh, these sneak peeks are nice. A picnic sounds like a nice way of finishing this project.
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I hope you show us your final quilt. It looks very interesting! We’ve had the idea here to use some of my father-in-laws very old wool shirts from Pendelton to make a quilt and I quite like the idea of something so personal used again. The fabrics are so very plaid and nice too.
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Beautiful. The little X looks so quiet and I like that you’re trying not to lose the original clothes. That quilt will be such a precious heirloom.
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