Look, it works! It already has a cat on it! After several weeks of prepping for my Women in the Wild West class, I decided to make a quilt. I had no idea how, but it seemed fairly intuitive. So I bought some of the heirloom calico at JoAnn Fabrics and used scraps from a dress I recently made for the top part. I found an old sheet at Goodwill for the backing, and sewed the two together in a duvet cover like style. Then I stuffed it with the batting and slip-stitched up the side. It turns out that is not actually the way to do it--there is something known as binding that works up the side, but I looked at a famous Texas quiltmaker's quilt and I couldn't find any binding. I decided to hand-piece and hand-stitch the quilt. I wanted a mobile project so I didn't want to involve the sewing machine. Also, I hoped to recreate the experience of making a quilt the way women would have done so for hundreds of years. None of these new-fangled sewing machines for me!
