Yesterday evening it rained, breaking the humidity that had grown oppressive. And we're only in the mid-70s for highs here! I have trouble imagining how it must feel in parts of the world where it's hot and humid.
But since nothing was lacking but the will, as the saying goes, I finally sat down and started quilting the next picnic quilt:
I got this quilt top (and another probably by the same maker, which will also become a picnic quilt) sometime in the 2014-2019 time range in a thrift store in Anaheim, CA. The sashing is from the 1960s (there are spots where you can read the selvage info, which includes a 1961-62 date), but the blocks are hand-sewn and, I feel, probably from the 1950s. The sashing is... not terribly well measured, so the blocks puff up a bit. The sashing also wobbles back and forth, which finally dissuaded me from quilting cables into it. Instead, I did straight-line stitching down each side of the sashing and saved the free-motion stuff for the twenty quilt blocks. It's mostly point-to-point arcs inside the triangles and the white square at the top of the basket, but I did decide to go with pebbling for the side rectangles, to try to eat up some of that excess fabric. One and a half baskets done out of the twenty, but I'm not going to stitch more until after the boys wake up.
And all the time I was quilting last night, I thought to myself that I was never able to do quilting in the summer in Anaheim, because it was just too hot....
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