This and That

I'm not sure what I want to do with this cutter quilt piece, but I did want to see all the patchwork, so I removed the binding pieces before hand washing it.

There was more patchwork hiding under that big skewed piece of binding. We'll see what it looks like once it's clean.

For my next practice piece I decided to us two vintage handkerchiefs as my foundation fabric. I don't have a problem with using old hankies (I wash everything before I stitch on it), but if the fact they might have been used bother you just look and see if the piece has tags on it. That will tell you they probably languished unused in someone's drawer for twenty or thirty years.

Here's my next practice piece, already started. Heavily printed hankies make great backing fabric; very old/thin cotton is also much like silk for practice purposes.