His task was the tumbling blocks quilt that will go on the little couch in the motor home. It will double as a covering when the couch gets made in to a bed.
Reynald spent a fair amount of time looking at images on-line to get ideas how to quilt this particular block. We both spent some time looking at the quilt, laid out on the floor to figure out how we wanted it to be quilted. We settled on what we thought was a good idea.
We arrived today at the quilt shop early afternoon, laid out the quilt on the big table and two women that work there came over and raised their eyebrows and asked "so how are you going to quilt THAT?" Reynald explained his idea and they both shook their heads and said, "that won't work". No one at this shop has ever quilted that quilt. It's way too hard. Right then I was ready to walk out the door. Reyanld is a little more persistent than I, and asked, "so what would you do?" to these two women. They offered suggestions, most we didn't like but one seemed to have potential.
So, we pinned on the zippers, zipped the quilt on to the machine and Reynald was off and running. This is a lot harder than it looks!!! The pros just zip around and make it all look so easy. Well, it's not! Now, having said that, Reynald did get better, the more he did. Clearly, this is a vocation that is going to take a lot of practice.
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| Pinning on the zipper |
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| Concentration and lots of hand-eye coordination |
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| I tried driving for 1 second. Ended up ripping out the three inches that happened with me behind the wheel. This definitely is not for me!! |
He's not completely scared off! Wishes this was November and starting this process, not three days before we should both be sitting on tractors! But, it's a start. We have some ideas about how to practice. Probably shouldn't have started with this particular quilt, but who knew? I have a few more practice quilts waiting, whenever he is ready to try again!
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